Talk:3102: Reading a Big Number

avrayter Avrayter (talk) 12:27, 13 June 2025 (UTC) how do you add links

Is the final character a 6, or is it a theta? 2A02:F6E:A36E:0:F0F1:E624:A18C:EDC2 14:05, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

The across line is curvy, so most likely a "6". SDSpivey (talk) 14:14, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

I would have to fire any programmer that output hex in lowercase (or put commas in triplets for hex). SDSpivey (talk) 14:14, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

You may be firing about half of the programmers then :) I don't think there is a rule here, both forms are common, but I guess that there are holy wars to fight. 90.73.80.27 15:41, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

r/unexpectedfactorial Randall Monroe, shame on you!

Surely this is just one line of a CSV file... 86.144.197.52 15:51, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

That is actually a strong justification!! I'd like to see the headers, tho xD

Also an unusual and possibly broken CSV. 000 values are uncommon (they are usually just 0), and the " (or ) may be used for quoting. There is no way to tell how it will parse as CSV is not a well defined format. There is a standard, RFC 4180, but it is not always followed.

Remember, kids: always end your strings with a NUL 93.36.184.28 15:56, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

By my reckoning, if you set a 78RPM record playing, and waited for it to have spun the amount of arcseconds specified (by that point in the "number", you'd be waiting a tad over 7 billion times the current age of the universe. I might have erred by a magnifude or three (forgot if I divided number of days down to get number of years, etc, and I much prefer to work with Long Scale billions, so maybe I did it slightly wrong when working with the inferior kind), but... Well, it doesn't really matter quite so much, I suspect. ;) 82.132.246.216 17:11, 13 June 2025 (UTC)