it's not "tail emission" it's just interpolation. modern computers are about 10x or more performant than the time of satoshi and power functions are cheap to execute now to simply take a block height and derive a reward value using fixed point integers.

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the entire denomination scheme of bitcoin is just fixed point integers. it's just a matter of changing the function so it doesn't do half every ~4 years but instead decay the reward smoothly, but still as a fixed point. fixed point simply means that the precision before and after the decimal are fixed, X bits are whole numbers, and Y bits are fractions.