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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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 Posted - 08/24/2007 : 06:42:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
Here's some more interesting data: This page was generated in 23.78 seconds and is 477.87 KB (489,341 bytes) in size! lol |
Yeah. I only added 70-something KB to Ricky's monstrous 300-plus, but it seems that this topic has set the "Slowest Loading Page One" record in SFN history.
Edited to add: page two just loaded in 0.19 seconds.  |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 07:03:06 [Permalink]
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| Just wait until somebody quotes Ricky's original post again... |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 07:07:13 [Permalink]
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| God, please curse anyone who uses the oxymoronic term 'near infinite'. If they are mathmaticians they should be smote that much faster. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 07:43:07 [Permalink]
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| God, please curse anyone who uses the oxymoronic term 'near infinite'. If they are mathmaticians they should be smote that much faster. |
I think he's just trying to get across the shear hugeness of the number to the layman. Ricky even felt compelled to actually paste the number into this discussion because he knew the visual of it would get the concept across much more powerfully than simply saying in a few words how big it is. The phrase "near infinite" can serve that same purpose, even if it is technically silly. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 10:21:21 [Permalink]
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| Yep, it could be 50, 50,000 or 5 google-google digits long, a margin of error which makes Pathagoras and baby Jesus cry. Its a pet peeve which I wont drop, like the theory-hypothsis conundrum. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
| Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 08/24/2007 10:22:34 |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 11:40:55 [Permalink]
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Yes, when some people use the term "near infinite" it is irksome - and I know I've heard it on TV news though can't recall when, but when I do hear it, its deja vu all over again.  |
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Mathmatics of Evolution
