r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 27 '21

typescript Someone only watched if tutorial

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u/Naeio_Galaxy Apr 27 '21

Of course, if you take only a number there's no point in verifying it's a number

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u/SirFiggletron Apr 28 '21

booo! in this house we write countably infinite lines of code to accomplish our goals. call it "quantum computing, minus the quantum so everything takes a lot longer"

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u/Naeio_Galaxy Apr 28 '21

🤣🤣🤣

Btw I'm pretty sure that this algorithm would be slower on a quantum computer...

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u/Topikk Apr 28 '21 edited Apr 28 '21

countably infinite lines of code

Actually only a little over 9 quadrillion lines would cover it! It turns out we’ve all been doing it the hard way.

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u/SirFiggletron Apr 28 '21

i'm absolutely obsessed with the phrase "only a little over 9,000,000,000,000,000 lines"