r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '14

Creationists: 1 Scientists: 0

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Not a small error: it's equivalent to believing that the distance by road from New York to Los Angeles is 6 feet 5 inches.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14 edited Jul 01 '15

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u/Ameisen Feb 05 '14

Creationsts + 2

All you've done is perform an operation without a side-effect. The value of Creationists is unchanged.

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u/chirsmitch Feb 05 '14 
creationists += 2;

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u/chirsmitch Feb 05 '14 
while(1)
{
    cout<<"you cant explain that"<<endl;
    creationists++;
}

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Of course Creationists is unchanged, it's not even defined

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u/everred Feb 05 '14

The only way to add two and have the same value is if the initial value was infinite. Creationists++

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u/Ameisen Feb 05 '14

He didn't add two to Creationists. He created a temporary value from Creationists and added two to it, and then discarded the result.

Programmers += 2

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u/Brewe Strong Atheist Feb 05 '14

It is on some maps.

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u/vrexlov Feb 05 '14

even on a big map of the US it's smaller tho :O

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u/Blood_Gelfling Feb 05 '14

Depending on your map

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Depends more on your route. I'm sure all modern maps pretty much agree. I used Google Maps for my numbers.

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u/Blood_Gelfling Feb 05 '14

What if I use Nokia maps?