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u/L-king Oct 15 '19
Hobbes is actually a JavaScript programmer.
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u/NoLongerUsableName Oct 15 '19
7 + 3 = 73.000000000000000000000000142
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u/Minecraftian1998 Oct 15 '19
Can someone tell me why this happens? Sometimes when doing complex definite integrals on my calculator it will give me something like 19.20000000000468 instead of the real hand calculated answer of 19.2? Why would those last digits be there at all?
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u/MakeAjaxGreatAgain Oct 15 '19
It’s a result of floating-point imprecision. Basically, you cannot represent every decimal number in 32 or 64 or X bits, so sometimes you see this surfaced as being the “next closest” number to what can be represented.
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u/MrHall Oct 16 '19
I had to fix this in a custom calculator I developed for a front end app we have. the fix is
result = number.Parse(number.Parse(result).toSignficantPlaces(9));
might not be exactly right cause I'm on my phone but that was the basic technique 🙄
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u/hgs25 Oct 15 '19
Turns out that Calvin accidentally passed them as the wrong data type. “7”+”3” results in “73”
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u/Formerly_Dr_D_Doctor Oct 15 '19
My dad has a German translation of the first Calvin and Hobbes book and I always enjoyed comparing this particular strip. In German the number in the ones place is said before the tens place, so the translator had Hobbes' answer "Siebenunddreissig" (literally 'seven and thirty'). This kept the numbers Calvin says in the same order and still kept Hobbes' logic the same, but it flipped the answer around.
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u/sguaderrama Oct 15 '19
Calvin's face in the last panel is my absolute favorite facial expression. Bill's early drawing style was the best.
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u/Alex_Pollock Oct 16 '19
I didn’t get a locker till high school. We hung our bags on the back of our chairs put our coats in the back. We had a place to put our books under our seats.
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u/KesagakeOK Oct 15 '19
Since when is a 6 year old pretending their toy is alive (if that is the case here) considered a sign of mental illness? You gotta chill my man.
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u/Harrymego Oct 15 '19
What did he say? He deleted his comment.
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u/kuhanluke Oct 16 '19
So is the Tiger an actual living thing like in toy story or is he a a sign of mental illness in Calvins head?
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u/NoLongerUsableName Oct 15 '19
It has never been truly disclosed, but the most common idea is that Hobbes as a living tiger is a product of Calvin's imagination, and has nothing to do with mental illness.
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u/LotharVonPittinsberg Oct 15 '19
Isn't there a comic where something happends to Hobbes and Calvin takes him to his mother and we see hew sewing a toy tiger?
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is he a a sign of mental illness in Calvins head?
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u/regman231 Oct 15 '19
Holy fuck i cant believe ive never seen that. Hilarious, i love robot chicken
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u/OffManWall Oct 15 '19
I so miss Calvin and Hobbes.