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Re:Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count by foobarian on Friday May 17, 2024 @09:43AM (#40389767)
Speaking of, one of my favorite discoveries with Unicode is that there is a ton of code points acceptable for symbol identifiers in various languages that I just can't wait to abuse.

>>> ᚨ=3

>>> ᛒ=6

>>> ᚨ+ᛒ

9

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Re:Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count by 8372049 on Friday May 17, 2024 @11:58AM (#40391264)
You're even using a and b, very good.
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Re:Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count by pragma_x on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:32PM (#40391634)
Ah yes, programming like the vikings intended.
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