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Is someone who writes horror movies a ghost writer?
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Do they format their stories in JaSON[^]?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Such ideas are often spooken about in a spirited yet crypt-ic manner, and then, intern, buried in the archives.
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Dunno, I'll ask my mummy! 
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Prolly someone with "zombie in your head".
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I Kuntz reply mon, ah not be King but I do Love 'te craft...
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Not if he's been encrypted...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Surely it's the decrypted ones you need to worry about...
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Hi,
Has anyone else done this, looked at a bit of code written many moons ago and thought "How the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) did I do that, why did I do that?" I was just hunting around for a standards doc to check something when I found an old C# answer to someones homework I might have written. I think the question was about using an array to store and calcualte Fibbonanci numbers (1+1=2, 2+1=3, etc) the answer was using no arrays and would only got 93. Does anyone recongnise this:
double sqrt5 = Math.Sqrt(5);
double phi = (sqrt5 + 1) / 2;
return Convert.ToUInt64((1 / sqrt5) * Math.Pow(phi, n));
It doesn't resemble my code.
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Google does: series - Fibonacci in C# | DaniWeb[^]
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Quote: Has anyone else done this, looked at a bit of code written many moons ago and thought "How the 🐘 did I do that, why did I do that?"
Forget many moons ago; it's happened the next day after writing code despite having had too much wine. 
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It's a variation of Binet's formula - assuming Convert.ToUInt64 rounds rather than truncates:
Fibonacci number - Wikipedia[^]
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As per Wikipedia:
The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base used to divide the time is the same as the one used to represent it, the whole time representation can be handled as a single string. Therefore, it becomes simpler to interpret a timestamp and to perform conversions. For instance, 1:23:45 is 1 decimal hour and 23 decimal minutes and 45 decimal seconds, or 1.2345 decimal hours, or 123.45 decimal minutes or 12345 decimal seconds; 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a timestamp as a fractional day, so that 2021-04-06.54321 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 43 decimal minutes and 21 decimal seconds after the start of that day, or a fraction of 0.54321 (54.321%) through that day (which is shortly after traditional 13:00). It also adjusts well to digital time representation using epochs, in that the internal time representation can be used directly both for computation and for user-facing display.
Decimal time - Wikipedia[^]
Decimal calendar - Wikipedia[^]
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Or ... How Do 'Star Trek' Stardates Work?[^] which would be a lot easier to push to some segments of the population ... 
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More proof that "good enough" is.
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So, how do we digitize military time:
"Mickey's big hand is between the 10 and 11 and his little hand is on the 6?"
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Easy. Like everything else in the army, do it by threes.
Trinary time!
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I wasn't aware of these proposals. Decimal time makes sense. Decimal calendar, no. But...inertia.
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The major problem with all of our natural timekeeping systems is that the "constants" on which they rely (day, year) are neither integral multiples of each other nor truly constant. This is why the time base for highly-accurate time measurements is TAI (International Atomic Time), determined by a set of ~400 atomic clocks worldwide. This is basically a count of seconds from an agreed base, and could in principle be converted to any other representation.
For atavistic reasons, humans like to have calendars and clocks that match the astronomical phenomena. In the northern hemisphere, we expect spring to start in March/April, autumn in September/October, etc. We also expect the year to have a whole number of days*. We therefore have such strictly-unnecessary phenomena as "leap seconds" and "leap years" to keep everything aligned, giving us UT1.
Given the above constraints, it would be impossible to design any calendar that did not make allowances for irregularities in the count. As such, we may as well remain with what most people feel comfortable.
* Months are artificial constructs in the civil calendar, so I'm not mentioning them
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What do we do for those with a different number of fingers?
If a conversion is necessary, so long as we use binary for computers then we ought use a binary-compatible time: octyl or hex .
I mean, really, base ten is a commonly used custom but is really pretty stupid as choices go.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: What do we do for those with a different number of fingers?
We use base 10.. duh!
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+ !
And that's why you have more reputation points than I .
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Member 12924312 wrote: the whole time representation can be handled as a single string
Yes, meaning it'd be slower than the current float that's used when trying to mutate.
Also, if we are changing anyway, why not pick something like Swatch Internet Time - Wikipedia[^]?
I'd already be happy if they stopped with summer&winter time 
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