[Python-Dev] Feedback on new floating point info in tutorial

Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu
Tue Jun 19 17:33:18 EDT 2001


12 Jun 2001 10:39:29 -0500 in <mailman.992360478.17822.python-list at python.org>,
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> spake:
>     Steve> Tim Peters wrote:
>     >> god-created-the-integers-from-1-through-3-inclusive-and-that's-it-ly
>     >> y'rs  - tim
>     Steve> I thought "many" came after two ...
> Only for rabbits...

  No, no.  One, two, three, four, "five" (meaning anything more than
four).

  Of course, Real Programmers know that there are only two numbers:
0 and 1.

  VLSI designers know them as "high electrical state" and "low
electrical state", but let's not go there.

-- 
 <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>
"I will tell you things that will make you laugh and uncomfortable and really
fucking angry and that no one else is telling you.  What I won't do is bullshit
you.  I'm here for the same thing you are.  The Truth." -Transmetropolitan #39



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