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Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by Evgeny on Monday August 24, 2009 @06:43PM (#783583)
Maybe we could just define "infinity = 999999" or something like that ...
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Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by gloob on Monday August 24, 2009 @07:44PM (#783697)
Maybe we could just define "zero = 123456789" or something like that while we're at it. If we're going to break math we may as well go whole hog.
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Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by rbanffy on Monday August 24, 2009 @11:10PM (#784032)
One of my favorite pranks on Squeak was to do "true := false" in a workspace window.

Sadly, it no longer works...

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Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by leadnose on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @08:24AM (#784672)
I've actually seen that kind of definition in the source of one game.
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