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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by astrodust on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:31AM (#5674776)
Long-scale should be officially retired, it's needless. Keep rocking with fortnights and stone if you must, nobody else is laying claim to those.

It's things like having three different "gallons" that all mean wildly different things that make communication difficult.

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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by lucian1900 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:45AM (#5674871)
Or perhaps short-scale should be retired instead, since pretty much all other languages use long-scale anyway.
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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by astrodust on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @04:07PM (#5676535)
Short's as much as a standard and pairs well with SI units. Long's an anachronism in comparison.
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