diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cf50625..4a3c012 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@
 |2|Remove sorting float64 slices. Calculate min, max and average by iterating.|4:25.59|-7.21|[830e5df](https://github.com/shraddhaag/1brc/commit/830e5dfacff9fb7a41d12027e21399736bc34701)|
 |3|Decouple reading and processing of file content. A buffered goroutine is used to communicate between the two processes.|5:22.83|+57.24|[2babf7d](https://github.com/shraddhaag/1brc/commit/2babf7dda72d92c72722b220b8b663e747075bd7)|
 |4|Instead of sending each line to the channel, now sending 100 lines chunked together. Also, to minimise garbage collection, not freeing up memory when resetting a slice. |3:41.76|-161.07|[b7b1781](https://github.com/shraddhaag/1brc/commit/b7b1781f58fd258a06940bd6c05eb404c8a14af6)|
-|5|Read file in chunks of 100 MB instead of reading line by line. |3:32.62|-9.14||
\ No newline at end of file
+|5|Read file in chunks of 100 MB instead of reading line by line. |3:32.62|-9.14|[c26fea4](https://github.com/shraddhaag/1brc/commit/c26fea40019552a7e4fc1c864236f433b1b686f0)|
+|6|Convert temperature from `string` to `int64`, process in `int64` and convert to `float64` at the end. |2:51.50|-41.14||
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 3f6c86d..55ca81d 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ func evaluate(input string) string {
 
 	for city, temps := range mapOfTemp {
 		wg.Add(1)
-		go func(city string, temps []float64) {
+		go func(city string, temps []int64) {
 			defer wg.Done()
-			var min, max, avg float64
-			min, max = math.MaxFloat64, math.MinInt64
+			var min, max, avg int64
+			min, max = math.MaxInt64, math.MinInt64
 
 			for _, temp := range temps {
 				if temp < min {
@@ -107,10 +107,7 @@ func evaluate(input string) string {
 				avg += temp
 			}
 
-			avg = avg / float64(len(temps))
-			avg = math.Ceil(avg*10) / 10
-
-			updateResult(city, fmt.Sprintf("%.1f/%.1f/%.1f", min, avg, max))
+			updateResult(city, fmt.Sprintf("%.1f/%.1f/%.1f", round(float64(min)/10.0), round(float64(avg)/10.0/float64(len(temps))), round(float64(max)/10.0)))
 
 		}(city, temps)
 	}
@@ -127,13 +124,13 @@ func evaluate(input string) string {
 	return stringsBuilder.String()[:stringsBuilder.Len()-2]
 }
 
-func readFileLineByLineIntoAMap(filepath string) (map[string][]float64, error) {
+func readFileLineByLineIntoAMap(filepath string) (map[string][]int64, error) {
 	file, err := os.Open(filepath)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
 
-	mapOfTemp := make(map[string][]float64)
+	mapOfTemp := make(map[string][]int64)
 
 	chanOwner := func() <-chan []string {
 		resultStream := make(chan []string, 100)
@@ -172,11 +169,11 @@ func readFileLineByLineIntoAMap(filepath string) (map[string][]float64, error) {
 				continue
 			}
 			city := text[:index]
-			temp := convertStringToFloat(text[index+1:])
+			temp := convertStringToInt64(text[index+1:])
 			if _, ok := mapOfTemp[city]; ok {
 				mapOfTemp[city] = append(mapOfTemp[city], temp)
 			} else {
-				mapOfTemp[city] = []float64{temp}
+				mapOfTemp[city] = []int64{temp}
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -188,8 +185,9 @@ type cityTemp struct {
 	temp float64
 }
 
-func convertStringToFloat(input string) float64 {
-	output, _ := strconv.ParseFloat(input, 64)
+func convertStringToInt64(input string) int64 {
+	input = input[:len(input)-2] + input[len(input)-1:]
+	output, _ := strconv.ParseInt(input, 10, 64)
 	return output
 }
 
@@ -215,3 +213,11 @@ func processReadChunk(buf []byte, readTotal, count int, stringsBuilder *strings.
 
 	return count
 }
+
+func round(x float64) float64 {
+	rounded := math.Round(x * 10)
+	if rounded == -0.0 {
+		return 0.0
+	}
+	return rounded / 10
+}