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[Trotter]

The diet version has even more.

 

[Baez]

They put caffeine in Orange Soda? I thought that question was asking which one had the most sugar!

What did you get for the Brian Kernighan question?

I said co-creator of Unix. Which he was... Not according to them! We studied him in our Unix course.

It's not the best test but good since it's just for fun.

 

[kmote]

I said co-creator of Unix. Which he was... Not according to them! We studied him in our Unix course.

It's not the best test but good since it's just for fun.

Hah you did the same thing I did (see post 4).

 

[theopfor]

6/20 I dunno how I got that high though. I know almost nothing about programming, except for the languages I use to program.

 

[nickmannawar]

6/20 I dunno how I got that high though. I know almost nothing about programming, except for the languages I use to program.

Just guessing?

 

[theopfor]

Just guessing?

Yeah. I think one of the only ones I didn't guess on, I got wrong. The one about the dollars and cents. I put float, because I didn't think that they meant separately.

 

[nickmannawar]

Yeah. I think one of the only ones I didn't guess on, I got wrong. The one about the dollars and cents. I put float, because I didn't think that they meant separately.

Yeah I got that one right.

 

[kmote]

Yeah. I think one of the only ones I didn't guess on, I got wrong. The one about the dollars and cents. I put float, because I didn't think that they meant separately.

They didn't mean separately. You would use an int to represent the number of cents.

 

[S0ULphIRE]

you *could* use a float or double too though

 

[kmote]

you *could* use a float or double too though

You could also use a piece of paper and a pencil.

You should definitely not use either of these types unless you want to effectively treat them as ints.