Vetoed.—Yoda
Adminned at 17 May 2011 06:47:43 UTC
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Yoda - 51
New proposed business plan: “If DICE100000000 is equal to 1, then -1; otherwise, 10^100.”
If you want to play dirty, then let’s go.
BTW, the rule only states that the business plan “must be able to produce negative numbers”, the rest is a should clause.
Also, you’ll need a lot of coconspirators in order to churn out startups fast enough.
The symbol ^ traditionally represents “to the power of” in math. I think that supersedes a meaning in C because it is more commonly used.
Traditionally, superscript is used in maths. And you could easily have written 10<sup>100</sup> in your post; it doesn’t work in comments, but it works fine on the wiki and in posts. (I just tested.) I think the programming language meaning of ^ (which is pretty consistently exclusive-OR in many programming languages) supersedes the LaTeX meaning (of ^ for superscript, and by implication, exponentiation); I think C, Java, and similar languages are more widely used than LaTeX.
From Wikipedia, the first sentence of “Other Uses” on the page for the Caret is as follows: “In mathematics, the caret can signify exponentiation”. The XOR notation isn’t until the second paragraph. In this case, the context obviously refers to the mathematical use of exponentiation. So will you please quit trying to argue this? If you don’t like it, raise a CfJ.
“^” is most commonly used to represent “to the power of” both in typed documents and the displays of most calculators. I was unaware of the meaning in C. It seems a bit esoteric to a non-programmer.
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