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Old Sun Dec 11, 2011, 12:00pm
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I was agreeing with grunewar that it was Overly Officious Calculating.
And I still can't figure out what JugglingReferee was trying to say. I don't know whether to agree with him, or to disagree with him, or to agree to disagree with him, or to disagree to agree with him.
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Old Sun Dec 11, 2011, 01:42pm
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And I still can't figure out what JugglingReferee was trying to say. I don't know whether to agree with him, or to disagree with him, or to agree to disagree with him, or to disagree to agree with him.
Whatever it ws, he forgot to say "eh" at the end of the sentence.
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Old Sun Dec 11, 2011, 10:06pm
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And I still can't figure out what JugglingReferee was trying to say. I don't know whether to agree with him, or to disagree with him, or to agree to disagree with him, or to disagree to agree with him.
Computer programmer humor. If you're writing computer code, you get to declare a variable as a specific type, and the type you declare has certain (that may be different for other types of variables).

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int c = 5;
int c1 = 05;
int c3 = 000005;
"int" in this case stands for "Integer"... ie: a whole number. The zeros in front of the number 5 do not matter in this case, because all three of the examples I used are equal to the number 5.

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char string[4] = "5", 
char string[4] = "05"
These are examples of character strings. In this case, each one is 4 characters long. In these examples, we have " 5" and " 05" respectively. Since character strings are compared literally, these two values are NOT identical.

In other words, when you're asking if 5 and 05 are identical, computer programmers like me have to ask "what data type are you using?" before we can answer your question.

So, to know if 05 is a legal FED basketball number, we need to know if the list of valid numbers in the rulebook is intended to be "Integers" (which would mean 05 is legal) or "Strings" (which would make 05 illegal). I am not aware of a casebook ruling either way.
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Old Sun Dec 11, 2011, 11:06pm
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Sorry about that BillyMac. I've been writing a lot of code lately, and it just kinda hit me.

It was my way of saying what bob said. I ain't going to look for trouble. lol
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Old Mon Dec 12, 2011, 02:06am
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Computer programmer humor. If you're writing computer code, you get to declare a variable as a specific type, and the type you declare has certain (that may be different for other types of variables).

Code:
char string[4] = "5", 
char string[4] = "05"
These are examples of character strings. In this case, each one is 4 characters long. In these examples, we have " 5" and " 05" respectively. Since character strings are compared literally, these two values are NOT identical.
Those are actually arrays.
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Old Mon Dec 12, 2011, 07:25am
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Those are actually arrays.
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Old Mon Dec 12, 2011, 09:42am
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Those are actually arrays.
True... I was just trying to simplify it a bit for the non-computer-programmer types in the audience.

(and, of course, some languages treat Strings and Character arrays as if they're identical... which they probably are once you get into the compiled code).
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