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Why count to ten when you can stop at seven? The octal numeral system is a bizarre mathematical format that relies entirely on a base of eight. The moment you…
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Because crashing the program was apparently too mainstream. If you divide a floating point decimal by zero, the system doesn't error out; it just hands you a…
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For those times when absolute nothingness feels a bit too positive. The IEEE 754 standard for binary math requires negative zero to be a distinct value from…
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When standard arithmetic is too slow, hardcore engineers use 'Bitwise Operators'. These commands bypass decimal numbers entirely, ripping data open and…
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Why name things clearly when you can just reuse the same word and hope for the best? By defining a new variable inside a function with the exact same name as…
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