Article 72DD0 Error'd: Boxing Day Math

Error'd: Boxing Day Math

by
Lyle Seaman
from The Daily WTF on (#72DD0)

To be honest, math works the same way all year 'round. At least, it's supposed to.

"My Stack Exchange Inbox is Less Than Empty" declared Mike V."I guess this happens when you read a notification twice!"

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Adam R. discovered a new kind of mathematical quantity in use: "I was updating my billing address on a certain website, and this was the default value they filled in for my phone number. "Hmm, that's odd," I thought. Then I figured it out: they decided to take my phone number, written out as XXX-YYY-ZZZZ and eval()'ed that as a mathematical expression. The final result of that subtraction with my phone number was, in fact, -439."

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"Counting is hard" announcesKT. "If mathematically no one reacted, how did they react?"

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"Unicode this!" challenged Michael R."Kızılelma is the new Kzlelma"

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Reinier B. would like us to count the ways. "This piece of text on the LEGO Studio download page changesdynamically, which works OK-ish. But leave the page open foran hour or so and more and more "undefined" strings get inserted."

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