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Re:The 10,000 Year Clock by im3w1l on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:32PM (#16211012)
All I see is an octal number. C ruined me.
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Re:The 10,000 Year Clock by Someone on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:47PM (#16211079)
A very special octal number, having two nines in it.
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Re:The 10,000 Year Clock by pklausler on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:26AM (#16214267)
Which of course was fine in original C.
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Re:The 10,000 Year Clock by majewsky on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:50AM (#16211775)
I'm seeing a zip code.
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Re:The 10,000 Year Clock by lucb1e on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:16AM (#16211652)
PHP ruined me too. And basically any other language supporting common number notations.
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Re:The 10,000 Year Clock by jacobush on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:06AM (#16214103)
PHP ruined everything
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