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Exactly. It's only been calculated to a trillion digits, and if you hardcode that and then someone calculates it to a quadrillion then you're going to feel a little silly having to update the value of pi each place you hardcoded it.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Exactly. It's only been calculated to a trillion digits, and if you hardcode that and then someone calculates it to a quadrillion then you're going to feel a little silly having to update the value of pi each place you hardcoded it.
Isn't that what Search and Replace is for?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Exactly. It's only been calculated to a trillion digits, and if you hardcode that and then someone calculates it to a quadrillion then you're going to feel a little silly having to update the value of pi each place you hardcoded it.
Isn't that what Search and Replace is for?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Isn't that what Search and Replace is for?
Ok, let me see, search for a trillion digit value in your source files and replace it with a quadrillion digit value? When that is done your great great grandson will be born. :)
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Michael Martin wrote:
Isn't that what Search and Replace is for?
Ok, let me see, search for a trillion digit value in your source files and replace it with a quadrillion digit value? When that is done your great great grandson will be born. :)
My .NET Business Application Framework My Home Page My Younger Son & His "PET"
The regex would be simple. :)
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Well you never know what could happen in the universe. That's fine assumption. I usually create constants for all the decimal digits 0-9 so that I can change the value if I need it.
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I worked with some guys who previously had some offshore developers actually do that after they were told to change the hardcoded numbers to constants. (So statements like
x += 2;got changed tox += TWO;. It's fortunate they didn't use pi, else it would have become THREE_POINT_ONE_FOUR_ONE_FIVE_NINE.... )Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Michael Martin wrote:
Isn't that what Search and Replace is for?
Ok, let me see, search for a trillion digit value in your source files and replace it with a quadrillion digit value? When that is done your great great grandson will be born. :)
My .NET Business Application Framework My Home Page My Younger Son & His "PET"
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
When that is done your great great grandson will be born.
Uh ooh... This is how babby is formed?!
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