Re: Google 'I' for Idiots

On 2011-03-22, Steve VanDevender <stevev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good lord, you've NEVER used or even seen output from a programming
language that supported floating point? Since 'e' notation is a
standard way of representing floating point numbers with large postitive
or negative exponents of 10 for input or output across almost all of
them from FORTRAN onward.

In the peggle addon for World of Warcraft (which has somehow been given
a pass on their usual "no obfuscated code" rule), they use this to hide
numbers. A lot. For instance, why write 25000 when you can write 25e3?

-s
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