excreationist
Married mouth-breather
You said "449 views is as close to zero as makes no difference"What is it that you feel lacks evidence?Well I think the following statement of yours doesn't have good evidence:
"There are eight billion people; 449 views is as close to zero as makes no difference."
Sometimes it seems you're saying ridiculous things to get a reaction out of me.
That there are eight billion people? Google will find you dozens of sources that agree that that's a good approximation of the reality.
That 449/8,000,000,000 is a number close to zero? I use a technique from arithmetic - you might have heard of it, it's called "division". I don't think many would disagree that 0.00000006 is 'close to zero'.
Sometimes it seems you are acting dumber than you can possibly really be.
You didn't say it "practically makes no difference" you said it makes no difference. You were talking about nuances earlier.
So if 449 out of 8 billion were tortured to death is it reasonable to say that it makes no difference to being zero? If so then there is no reason to worry about that torture.
On a thing called a "computer" there is a thing called "floats". There is a value that is close to zero - it is called "epsilon". It is 1.401298E-45 i.e. it has about 45 zeroes after the decimal point before the 1. "floats" are a rough approximation of floating point numbers. A more accurate one is "doubles". Its value for "close to zero" is 4.94065645841247E-324 which means it has about 324 zeroes after the decimal point before the digit. So your "close to zero" number often isn't shared by programmers.I use a technique from arithmetic - you might have heard of it, it's called "division". I don't think many would disagree that 0.00000006 is 'close to zero'.
Obviously you wanted to wave away the 449 views by saying that it makes no difference to zero. Well it at least seems to be an original argument.
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