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alf.nu

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Re: Return True to Win

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post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The important property of evaluation is determinism defined by the equality of the output. Classically, id(x) != id(x) is logically inconsistent. Boolean Logic and natural languages are pretty mainstream in my opinion. Do you mean programming languages? If IEEE whatsthenumber is implemented in the FPUs to provide fcmp (Floating-point Compare Instruction), the languages don't have much of a choice. When there are diff…

You seem to be splitting hairs and I'm not entirely sure why. Following the flow of conversation it should be pretty easy to infer the parent was referring to programming languages. Originally you said you don't think there should be a solution to the reflexive problem, and that in reply to a comment mentioning that Javascript was ugly (which is where the context of _programming_ language came from). I, and I believe…

No, of course that was news to me. But I am not advocating any programming language. This looks like a wart, but a compelling one to commit to, because it's a simple solution.

> It may not seem obvious and it may seem logically inconsistent but, ...

An if an argument is made in defense of inconsistent logic, how could the argument be expected to be logically consistent?

Your argument by authority is not very good. There are involved explanations on stackoverflow.com, but I didn't bother to read, yet. Another solution would be to set the carry flag.

Re: Return True to Win

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post #98
post #89

What is with the User/Score/Browser table? I only did like 4 of the tests and that thing popped up. I would finish it but I have some other things to do.

Looks like once you successfully score, it shows you how many characters it took others to solve. For example, the first one you can trivially type in true to solve it, with four characters. But it's solvable with only two characters.

Yes but there is no where you can enter your screen name. I should have clarified that in my question because I got down voted for asking this.

The whole down voting thing imo really has to go. Just flag answers or up vote. The whole bro intellectual rudeness is sort of off putting.

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