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--y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:12:13PM +0000, Edmund von der Burg wrote: > In a thread about hatred for CUPS Timothy Knox wrote: >=20 > Ah cups, let me count the ways I hate thee. On second thoughts, no. The > heat death of the universe would occur before reaching the end. >=20 >=20 > This seemed to me a bit much, after all that would be alot of time to > express your hatred. >=20 > It seems to me that software is lines of code. Now each line of code > can be hateful, and can have hateful interactions with every other > line of code. Assuming the worst say you had two minutes of hate for > each line of code and its interaction with the other lines. That would > put an upper limit on the amount of possible hate as: >=20 > $total_hate_seconds =3D 120 * factorial( $lines_of_code ); >=20 > Sound about right? Erm... hate to point that out[1], but... well... you are only making it even easier to reach out to the heat death of the Universe and beyond. A quick check with that most authoritative of online paedias[2] shows that even some of the most outrageous claims place the low-energy state of the Universe at now + 10e1000 years. Thus, as bc(1) shows, even a modest lines-of-code count of 500 would jump way beyond that: l(f(500)) / l(10) 1134.08640853513455506319 A factor of 120 and an additional factor of 86400*365 would not do much to change the result: l(f(500) * 120 / 86400) / l(10) 1131.22907603870328660294 Or are you maybe suggesting that CUPS has less than 500 hateful lines of code? :) G'luck, Peter [1] pun mostly not intended [2] uggc://ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Urng_qrngu --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@xxxxxxx.xxx roam@xxxxx.xx roam@xxxxxxx.xxx PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying. --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFui8q7Ri2jRYZRVMRAvfpAKCwwD/CMaagquCV7YM7oHWK/r9ZcACfVyWp cu8hAkopyjPIvSTwtJcKJOY= =SYNl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--
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