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I use TortoiseGit and also tools provided by VSCode and Visual Studio. The VSCode/Visual Studio tools are quite OK for working within a repo but I like Tortoise "bird's eye" view of all repos. Also move/rename operations are very convenient in ToritoiseGit (right-click drag).
Mircea
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Joan M wrote: TortoiseGit
That one. Think I tried SourceTree long time ago and it was annoying for some reason.
Now not so much a preference but rather what I am used to.
I do use the command line for a number of things.
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... what's the point?
I'd get my coat on the way out, but I only stuck my head round the door anyway...
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Up to your room Derek 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My decimal numbers got scattered, so I rounded them up.
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Sander Rossel wrote: My decimal numbers got scattered decimated, so I rounded them up.
FTFY 
Mircea
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There are 3.00 people in my household.
Start another thread/rant on dates…
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I watched a Youtube video recently and one idea from it has stuck in my head as very strange.
I assume everyone's familiar with the idea that if you divide 1 by 7, you get an infinite decimal extending to the right...
1 / 7 = 0.14285714285714285714285714285714...
But what if you take that the repeating 6 digit sequence indicated and repeat it infinitely to the right followed by a 3...
...2857142857142857142857142857143
That is clearly an infinity (it has infinitely many digits!), but if you multiply it by 7...
7*3 => 21 => 1 carry 2
7*4 => 28 + carried 2 => 30 => 0 carry 3
7*1 => 7 + carried 3 +> 10 => 0 carry 1
7*7 => 49 + carried 1 => 50 => 0 carry 5
7*5 => 35 + carried 5 => 40 => 0 carry 4
7*8 => 56 + carried 4 => 60 => 0 carry 6
7*2 => 14 + carried 6 => 20 => 0 carry 2
7*4 => 28 + carried 2 => 30 => 0 carry 3... Ultimately, you get...
...0000000000000000000000000000001
You have an infinite number of zeroes followed by 1, which is just 1. So this infinite number times 7 equals 1, which means it's also 1/7!
I'd always been told that multiplying infinity by any number resulted in infinity, but this is clearly an infinite number which when multiplied by 7 is 1!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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i don't want to think about it
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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As long as it is approximately right, the computer is very happy.
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: As long as it is approximately right, the computer is very happy.
The accountants aren't! 
Also, which AI are you running which expresses emotion?
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Im running Marvin from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. It's useless. Not that anyone cares though 
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Don’t let Marvin near your primary computer, it might blue screen itself, permanently!
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You cannot add a 3 to the end of an infinite number, as that converts it to a finite one.
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Yep.
Adding it to the 'end' would of course require that you reach the end which means it is no longer infinite.
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0.14285714285714285714285714285714
If you multiply this by 3 you get very close to Pi
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: multiply
You meant "add"?
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I did thanks
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And accountants be like "your infinite number has a rounding error and now the books are off!"
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I would not consider 1/7 or its decimal equivalent an infinite number. I think technically it is a rational number.
Unless you are using a special library, then computers (and especially databases) don’t deal that well with these types of numbers.
This is why there are fixed decimals that always round in favor of the bank.
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englebart wrote: This is why there are fixed decimals that always round in favor of the bank.
This is incorrect. Bank accounts use "round to nearest or away", where fractional cents are rounded to the nearest value (up or down). If the residue is exactly 0.5 cents, the number is rounded "away" - up for positive, down for negative.
If you are running a credit, this gives you a tiny statistical advantage. If you are running a debit, this gives the bank a tiny statistical advantage. In neither case is this likely to have a measurable effect, unless you aggregate over billions of operations a day.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Bank accounts use "round to nearest or away", where fractional cents are rounded to the nearest value (up or down)
I couldn't find any regulation that specifies how banks round numbers.
And given 'banks' exist throughout the world I suspect certainly in some places rounding might use different rules.
I worked for a financial company (not a bank) and the rounding was decided by me.
There are multiple rules.
Last time I looked (and can recall) there are three different types of rounding suited to financial transactions. Rather than scientific. Although one of those might also be scientific.
Two of them provide 'better' results than just rounding up on '0.5' otherwise down. Which I suspect you are referring to. That specific method tends to favor a specific result. Because there are 6 digits from 5-9 but only 4 from 0-4.
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Here you are: Converting to the euro
When the EU introduced the Euro, conversion from the national currencies to the Euro was done using to the rule that I mentioned (perform the calculation exactly, then round to 2 decimal places using 'round to nearest or away'). I assumed that this was the rule used by most banking operations.
Note that the IEEE Std 754-2019 Floating-Point Standard specifies decimal, as well as binary, floating-point. Parts of the decimal specification (e.g. the "quantum" concept, and 'round to even or away') were added specifically in order to ease the decimal calculations performed by banks.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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