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100% complete means finished only for very large values of 100.
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That's as good as one I read around the 20th of December.
My wife wanted a Christmas tree in every room of the house. I said no-way. So we compromised and put a christmas tree in every room of the house. I call that a win.
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enhzflep wrote: So we compromised and put a christmas tree in every room of the house The key there is to have a small house .
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The punchline elicited an actual LOL from me.
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is only used by managers:
"You're over your estimated hours for this project, why isn't it 100% complete by now?"
Oh, and yes, by Windows because we all know the programmers at Microsoft can't count.
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So you're saying 100% is a Microsoftism for we have a Windows 10 update ready to push?
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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OMG. Do it better
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100% complete is 33% slower now because the update fixed the problem with Intel Meltdown [^] problem.
So just wait 33% more time and you're all done...133% done. Also known as "toast"!
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It means you're a 100% of halfway there.
Jeremy Falcon
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...when 'halfway' is defined as an arbitrary value meaning somewhere between the beginning and end, possibly 'at' the beginning, but never 'at' the end?
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...but it was just one of those flings.
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Is he a plumber? Maybe he should try clog dancing?
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Tim Deveaux wrote: but it was just one of those flings.
Waltz the hell!
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I don't like to ballet the obvious, but are you sure your post is en pointe?
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I guess he found the style contra to his liking?
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It is better to have an end to horas than horas without end.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Mersenne prime numbers can be expressed as 2^n - 1.
The 50th known Mersenne was discovered Dec 26 2017.
It is 2^77232917 - 1.
It has more than 23 million digits.
What can you do about it?
Well, Mersenne.org is asking for donations. And, if you have a reasonably fast PC that you can leave running for a week or two, you can join the hunt for number 51 and get your name in the math history books. See their website:
List of known Mersenne prime numbers - PrimeNet[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 5-Jan-18 17:34pm.
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I'm pretty sure I dropped #51 on the floor and it rolled behind the stove. We'll likely never see it again.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I use #51 as my PayPal password.
Takes a while to type in, but that's good - it stops me buying cr@p on FleaBay.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You realize that you just told the whole world your PP password?!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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By the time anyone gets round to typing it in, I'll have swapped to #52 ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I take for granted that you are not representing the number in base 10, are you?
Such passwords are much better represented in base 7.
Or you may use base 36, i.e. 0-9a-z. Then people won't even suspect that it is a number, and it shortens it down a little bit, too.
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Such passwords are better represented in baseball.
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