2 + 2 = 5
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jul 4 17:24:34 EDT 2012
On 04/07/2012 20:37, Paul Rubin wrote:
> I just came across this (https://gist.github.com/1208215):
>
> import sys
> import ctypes
> pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5))
> five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p)
> print(2 + 2 == 5) # False
> five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4
> print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2 there...)
>
> Heh. The author is apparently anonymous, I guess for good reason.
>
The author got confused trying to switch from imperial to metric numbers
or vice versa?
--
Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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