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[PeriapsisPrograde]

Now What?

The correct answer is, "Now what?"

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

I would still invent time travel. Because screwdrivers!

Woop. 10,000. Now What?

Tell the Europeans to use decimal marks instead of commas - very confusing when you see 10.000,00 and had to figure out what's going on....... :lol:

 

[mojoey]

The correct answer is, "Now what?"

So What?

 

[orb]

Tell the Europeans to use decimal marks instead of commas - very confusing when you see 10.000,00 and had to figure out what's going on....... :lol:

Rather to use only the decimal marks (commas or dots) and stop using these strange thousands/grouping separators (dots or commas). Grouping separators are the most confusing part there.

 

[Pipcard]

I guess those grouping separators make it easier to read very large numbers (if they have a lot of significant figures).

Which is easier to read?
285929673295021

or

285,929,673,295,021

With the latter, you can more easily tell it's two-hundred-eighty-five trillion, nine-hundred-twenty-nine billion, six-hundred-seventy-three million, two-hundred-ninety-five thousand, twenty-one, since you can count the places by threes.

Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't.

 

[orb]

Which is easier to read?
285929673295021

or

285,929,673,295,021

The first one of course. For the second one you need to set your locale to parse it correctly.

 

[Scav]

The first one of course. For the second one you need to set your locale to parse it correctly.

Or, don't even bother trying to parse it correctly, and simply return NaN on any integer larger than six places. When queried, claim the date is 1 April of 1970.

Yup. That describes both my .NET programming acumen, as well as my mathematical attitude back in school.

 

[Cras]

So What?

What is......so what?



I will take "What of it" for 2000..


Answer......daily double.

 

[RisingFury]

Or, don't even bother trying to parse it correctly, and simply return NaN on any integer larger than six places. When queried, claim the date is 1 April of 1970.

Do you work for Microsoft or something? :lol:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Some interesting work going on over on unit 2. Not often you see a reactor vessel moving without everyone in full dress-out...

http://tva-today.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Keeping-Current-NC-Ready-Set-Lift-and-Lower.pdf

 

[jedidia]

Tell the Europeans to use decimal marks instead of commas - very confusing when you see 10.000,00 and had to figure out what's going on.......

Actually, the european symbol for grouping is the apostrophe. Way less confusing (10'000,00)

 

[Izack]

Which is easier to read?
285929673295021

or

285,929,673,295,021

The first, if you're programming and don't want to go back and remove all the commas because you aren't entering data into an array. The second, if you need to know how big it actually is.

31,928,675.57

or

_V(31,928,675.57)

 

[Quick_Nick]

xkcd just led to my discovering Soyuz 11. Never heard of it, never knew anything like it ever happened.

 

[MattBaker]

Well, reentries were always 'funny' (actually not really funny in the haha-, but in the unexpected-way).
But my favorite reentry oddity would probably be [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_23"]Soyuz 23[/ame]: A Soyuz landing on a partially frozen lake in weather that would every non-Russian reconsider the reentry. And the irony of one cosmonaut being a former deepsea diver just like they planned to land in water...

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Since I know I'm not the only Whovian here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=rrSaTHsHNsc&feature=endscreen

 

[Scruce]

 

[mojoey]

Well, reentries were always 'funny' (actually not really funny in the haha-, but in the unexpected-way).
But my favorite reentry oddity would probably be Soyuz 23: A Soyuz landing on a partially frozen lake in weather that would every non-Russian reconsider the reentry. And the irony of one cosmonaut being a former deepsea diver just like they planned to land in water...

In Soviet Russia, reentry reconsiders YOU.

 

[Urwumpe]

Would be epic, if the sign would rotate and show the actual distance. :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

In Soviet Russia, reentry reconsiders YOU.

Then my DG is Russian. "You want to reenter? It would be a shame if you would just skip of the atmosphere..."

 

[Urwumpe]

Problem: Heat shield does not seem to work.
Solution: Heat shield only installed for orbital version of spacecraft.