Re: What is this?
Re: What is this?
- Subject: Re: What is this?
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:46:18 -0400
At 8:33 PM -0500 2/26/05, David C Andrews wrote:
On Feb 26, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
Entity Bill Briggs spoke thus:
At 11:56 PM +0100 2/26/05, Emmanuel wrote:
At 4:07 PM -0500 2/26/05, deivy petrescu wrote:
I checked the script above in two different computers.
3.08055323620131E-306
You can make it a one-liner:
1 * (character 2 of ("9" as text))
BTW OMM I get 5 times more: 1.58331334099219E-305.
It's a new random number generator. OMM I get
{5.06906483100804E-305, {""}, "9"}
3.62580907692317E-282
perhaps it's related to the macs serial number? OMM:
1 * (character 2 of ("9" as text)) -- 4.83876968665255E-305
Curiouser still. It's not restricted to the case Deivy posted. I
just ran this with 'character "n" of' up to n = 999 and I get the
same number as with 2 for the entire series. I also replaced the '"9"
as text' with integers from 2 through 12, and each of them gives a
different number, which also persists no matter what "n" is set to.
This is some sort of strange bug that is picking up a floating point
number from a register that is near the lower limit of its range. Why
it's showing up as a character of a text string is not clear. But
it's very odd that it's different on different Macs.
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