Matt Miller (#4) (9/6/2011)

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Tom.Thomson (9/6/2011)

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Look, we are taking about extremely well known and standardised notation here. Any string that means "the number which is the limit of the series...

GSquared (9/6/2011)

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It's always seemed to me that, if a billion is a million million, shouldn't a trillion be a billion billion? And, honestly, a thousand should be a hundred...

Matt Miller (#4) (9/6/2011)

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Evil Kraig F (6/2/2011)

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mister.magoo (6/2/2011)

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For anyone who thinks that an infinitely recurring number can simply be redefined as another number, I ask this question:

Does PI (3.14159 etc...

Richard Warr (6/6/2011)

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Mathematically we've seen how this can be "proved". But using pure logic we're essentially saying that a number that is definitely less than 1 is the same as...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/7/2011)

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Craig Farrell (6/6/2011)

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calvo (6/6/2011)

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wow. I was about to question this when I looked it...

That "company in no campaign" (company id 9) is being deleted because it has the same phone number as "Smeets M.B. Zuid-Limburg BV" (company id 1, which doesn't get deleted)...

David Portas (9/6/2011)

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I guess it might amuse me too but I didn't...

Brandie Tarvin (9/6/2011)

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Tom,

I was able to reinstall SQL 2000 client tools after my 2k5 upgrade. I had to use a different install path, but the install worked... And so did...

Although I don't much like the article (I was a mathematician before I got involved in computers, and a computer scientist before I was an engineer/developer/architext, so I prefer people...

It's an interesting question.

Or is it really two quite distinct questions?

(1) Will there be a great increase in the proportion of data in relational databases that is...

When the Dutch East Indies were incorporated into South Africa, perhaps :w00t:? That's really fresh news, I first saw...

Jeff Moden (9/4/2011)

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Tom.Thomson (9/4/2011)

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GilaMonster (9/4/2011)

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Yuk, No way. Raisins, ground or chopped almonds (I prefer ground),...

1) Getting inverted conditions in where clauses ("=" for "<>", "is" for "is not", that sort of thing); for some reason I only do this on deletes and updates...

I change mine now and again, as the whim takes me. Sometimes it's a picture of me (various, large date range), sometimes it's a saltire or a thistle or some...

As a general rule, I will go a long way to ensure my code remains valid with changing dates (in the 1970s I was working in an outfit that used...