Saturday, October 15, 2005
Very Vexing Update
Do not blog drunk.
I am not drunk. I have an excellent alcohol tolerance.
Anyway, I just realised that my Very Vexing post was unintentionally synchronous. Or funny. Or both. Anyway, my conversations with Frank and the Computer were basically the same. I could generalise my afternoon as:
I am not drunk. I have an excellent alcohol tolerance.
Anyway, I just realised that my Very Vexing post was unintentionally synchronous. Or funny. Or both. Anyway, my conversations with Frank and the Computer were basically the same. I could generalise my afternoon as:
Frank/Computer: They are not the same.No wonder I was vexed! But now I am kind of impressed that it worked out like that. Frank and the Computer don't even know each other.
me: They are the same!
Frank/Computer: They are not the same!
me: They are the same!!!!
and so on....
// posted by suze @ 2:59 AM 
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Interesting. Given that computers run on programs and programs do contain errors (even programming languages), all you have to do with a program is to rephrase or clarify the question. Maybe Frank would respond well if you did the same.
For instance, I once was comparing the value of a variable which contained a fraction with the value of a constant. They were supposed to be exactly the same and the computer was telling me they were not. What I normally do is trace these damn things in the debugger, just to make sure I haven't screwed up somewhere else. But no, every hunky dory. So I think I ended up doing something like converted the variable to a string and comparing it with a string constant and it worked.
I've also rearranged code before and it's suddenly started working the way it's supposed to .. best not to question why.
For instance, I once was comparing the value of a variable which contained a fraction with the value of a constant. They were supposed to be exactly the same and the computer was telling me they were not. What I normally do is trace these damn things in the debugger, just to make sure I haven't screwed up somewhere else. But no, every hunky dory. So I think I ended up doing something like converted the variable to a string and comparing it with a string constant and it worked.
I've also rearranged code before and it's suddenly started working the way it's supposed to .. best not to question why.
Lucyna,
You just gave me an idea about hte program. THanks! I'm sure it has something to with the fact that C is a string and A and B are numbers. I thought that it ought not matter to that particular function, but maybe it does...
And I guess Frank and I might have different definitions of "same."
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You just gave me an idea about hte program. THanks! I'm sure it has something to with the fact that C is a string and A and B are numbers. I thought that it ought not matter to that particular function, but maybe it does...
And I guess Frank and I might have different definitions of "same."
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