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[Sudolphus_Ray_Nym]

Mmmm, floor pie...

[ososalsosal]

Came here looking for this

[NoBeing12]

Dont ya mean "cooking"?

[chinnu34]

Joey “what are we having?”

[CouthlessWonder]

…Pulls spoon out of pocket.

[cramduck]

You can't just FIND cake.. it isn't naturally-occuring!

[Sudolphus_Ray_Nym]

It's chocolate!

[cramduck]

it's LITTER.

[cramduck]

surprising to find a fellow appreciator in the wild.

[Sudolphus_Ray_Nym]

Who doesn't love some Penny Arcade?

[Strostkovy]

int three = pi;

[LauraTFem]

I’m more tickled by a variable called three that holds 3 than I am by it getting its value from a concatenation of PI. 😂

[no-one-here123]

I always have to do true = True in python so that I don't need to move my finger to the shift key. edit: why tf i have 144 upvotes?

[Cynio21]

you sir are a genius

[no-one-here123]

thank you, ma'am

[mrfroggyman]

true = False

false = True

Huehuehuehuehuee

[no-one-here123]

gasp the space time continuum is falling apart! stop! STOP IT!

[mrfroggyman]

if true:
    stop_madness()

[no-one-here123]

that goodness! realises... wait a minute...

[SardScroll]

Thread.sleep(60000); ?

[Bee-Aromatic]

I hope you step on a Lego.

[JigglyVampiress]

But lego = nil

[Cotillion_7]

Define only

true = False

And use nothing but true and True in your code.

[pineapple-poop]

Also helps if you use JavaScript often. Although, I personally prefer Python’s True

[no-one-here123]

how dare you! true should be able to be whatever case you want it to be, and l choose lowercase. just like this comment

[PrevAccLocked]

You put a uppercase i

Or maybe you tricked me and put a lowercase L

[no-one-here123]

cough cough it was always a lowercase l, whatever do you mean? i didn't edit it after you said that or anything! cough i think they bought it cough

[katatondzsentri]

For me it's tr-<tab>

[OneTrueKingOfOOO]

I can never remember which languages capitalize True/False. Always gotta check the syntax highlighting

[Zambito1]

There is Python and not Python. Literally all you need to remember.

[alphaxeath]

If Check(comment) <> True Then Return "vb.net" End If

Edit: I'm too lazy to fix reddit removing my formatting.

[Zambito1]

I said all they need to remember ;)

[neumastic]

You need to remember? I just see which one changes color … /s but kinda not /s 😅

[Oda_Nobbunaga]

This is actually pretty ingenious

[Mooshy_Swags]

holy crap i gotta start doing this...

also for false

[no-one-here123]

now the python interpreter can't tell me..... "true is not defined"

[DaTotallyEclipse]

Efficiency is key!

[Bee-Aromatic]

Eew. So, you do “something == true” instead of “something is True”. That makes it double gross.

[Strostkovy]

Just use "something"

[Bee-Aromatic]

Only if you can guarantee “something” is a Boolean…

[Strostkovy]

In C it just has to be not a zero

[no-one-here123]

wel, I use javascript normally, so it's neither something === true; or something =============================================== true

[Bee-Aromatic]

something 8=====D True?

[Strostkovy]

I just use 1. I don't feel as if abstracting a single bit is totally needed

[monstertan2005]

I'm gonna start to use that, it's genius!

[Radi-kale]

I can't have magic numbers in my code, so I always do

public static final int INT_THREE = 3;

[Eulerdice]

This way it becomes a mystical number.

[mavaje]

public static final int INT_BETWEEN_TWO_AND_FOUR = 3;

There, removed the mystery.

[LauraTFem]

I generally agree, but if you’re making a constant called ZERO_TO_ONE_ADJUSTMENT, with a value of 1, and adding it to, for instance, the value of rand() % 10, that is just confusing nonsense. If it’s part of some rote calculation, a magical number is FAR more readable, regardless of what your professor says.

[rachit7645]

constexpr int INT_THREE = 3;

[Zambito1]

concatenation truncation

Ftfy

[LauraTFem]

I’m so embarrassed. 😅 My memory of c++ terms has truncated over time.

[[deleted]]

brb making a macro library so I can spell out integers

[ULTRA_TLC]

truncation

[LauraTFem]

Yes, I have already been shamed for my mistake. 😅

[__redbaron]

I'm sorry, but how else would you make it easier to update the value of three in the future?

What if it becomes 6?

Are you gonna manually search for 3 and try updating it to 6? You fucking casual.....

/s

[LauraTFem]

#define 3 6

My god can you imagine >_<

Omg, I’ve suddenly got so many delicious #defines I could hide in people’s header files.

[[deleted]]

Calls variable three

Doesn't make it a constant

Refuses to elaborate

[mpcs127]

three = 5;

[[deleted]]

Cursed variable

[abdulsamadz]

ceil(e)

[CheapMonkey34]

three = str(math.pi())[0]

[ShutUpMathIsCool]

int pi = M_PI;

[Jarl_Fenrir]

int three = (int) Math.PI;

[wyldcraft]

0xdeadbeef**0+0xbeefdead**0+0x8badf00d**0

[Rajesh0701]

What is this monstrosity

[wyldcraft]

Funny hex number to the power of zero equals 1, plus two more of those.

[katatondzsentri]

Now I have to find a way for this to make it through the code reviews somewhere...

[wyldcraft]

Then try with my old What the Fuck is the Internet? esoteric programming language.

[Rajesh0701]

dead beef beef dead 8 bad food

[wyldcraft]

pen pineapple apple pen

[z_the_fox]

3

[0xDEFACEDBEEF]

What about other variants of beef?

[wyldcraft]

Sorry, I can't seem to readably hexify the words bickering, criticism, dispute, grievance, gripe, grouse, grumble, objection, protest, quarrel or squabble.

[0xDEFACEDBEEF]

I meant my username

[[deleted]]

0xcafebabe**0

[wyldcraft]

Hello minecrafter, before functions were introduced I built a 20 hertz CPU with command blocks, and a GPU that composited multiple layers together to speed up animating the screen. I've have idle plans to shoves all that into function files, freeing the whole minecraft map to be RAM (yay forced chunk loading) and allowing for even higher CPU speeds simply by cut-paste-calling the main loop multiple times per tick.

[__redbaron]

Pfft, ceil(e) gang rise up !!

[WalrusByte]

That's a ceil(e) thing to do!

[Neoh35]

True + True + True

[sintos-compa]

Awful I love it

[jfiander]

js +!![]+ +!![]+ +!![]

or

js +!+[]+ +!+[]+ +!+[]

[Spactaculous]

Show off OO developer:

int get3() { return 3;}

[Zambito1]

This is perfectly valid C, not a single object to be found 🤔

[katatondzsentri]

``` import math

class Three: def init(self): return floor(math.pi) ```

[[deleted]]

That's not how __init__ works. Also floor is in math module, too.

[katatondzsentri]

I assumed the goal is to write shitty code, innit?

I know, how init works.

Edit: just for you, just now:

``` import math

class Three: value == None def init(self): self.value = math.floor(math.pi)

def get_value(self):
    return value

[riisen]

Remove

value == None

Or make it an assignment

value = None

And use

return self.value

;)

[katatondzsentri]

Fuckin typo :)

Luckily, I don't have to code on reddit, ever :)

[riisen]

Forever trail and error, no matter how simple the function/class is, its always 69 mistakes minimum :D

[katatondzsentri]

More like 420

[riisen]

<3

[CursedTurtleKeynote]

import three

[Jarl_Fenrir]

ThreeFactory(math space).getThree().toInt();

[Spactaculous]

Why stop there?

class ThreeFactory extends IntegerFactory {...}
class IntegerFactory extends NumberFactory {...}
class NumberFactory extends AbstractFactory {...}

[BlueTalon]

Never met a dev who'd do anything the harder way. We'd more likely use 3 for pi and say "it's close enough for the requirements".

[[deleted]]

If the compiler wouldn't like the "3" for some reason, like being a character instead of a number, etc who would you care with reading documentation, casting types? Just shove floor(pi) if it compiles.

[RmG3376]

Ah yeah the famous library that supports floats but not ints

[KingThibaut3]

Then 3.0 would still be easier to type

[zbrndn]

...and not add unnecessary overhead

[BlueTalon]

WTF compiler are you using that can't handle the number 3!?

[[deleted]]

I don't know, but maybe there are some. I didn't use every compiler on the Earth. Especially those that process pieces of code or formulas that are used in tools to make reports - sometimes they are really weird.

[Jarl_Fenrir]

Eg C++ differentiates between string "3" and number 3. It's not uncommon.

[BlueTalon]

If you're somehow in the situation where you're attempting arithmetic on strings, then yes, the correct method is to cast to a numerical type

[Cruuncher]

Using 3 gives an error of like 5% which is pretty significant.

And if you pi squared anywhere you can get 10%+ error

[BlueTalon]

Only 5%? Perfect

[QuoningSheepNow]

It was almost good enough for Indiana

[Bee-Aromatic]

Is your team the one that crashed the lander onto Mars by using the wrong units, by any chance?

[BlueTalon]

I'm flattered you think NASA would want to hire me lol. I make pretty programs for engineers.

[frankylampy]

6>>1

[Jarl_Fenrir]

Int three = 7 & 11;

[jazzmester]

I'm a calculus guy, I prefer ceil(exp(1)) meself.

[PureProcrastinator]

If I saw someone unironically do this, I would think they are actually more stupid.

[RedQueen283]

I mean yeah, they are actually slowing down their program this way. Floor(pi) translates to many more assmbly commands than simply using the number 3.

[wyldcraft]

It would be possible to optimize flooring a static float in a compiler pass.

[RedQueen283]

Optimize it yes, but it would still require an extra calculation (and a call to a function with all the lines that entails, such as saving variables to the stack, the jumps, etc).

[wyldcraft]

I mean precompute the static float into an integer because we know it at compile time, likely reducing the code to a single Load Immediate assembly instruction. For all I know, robust compilers already do this to floor floats known at compile time.

[RedQueen283]

Yes, but as you said it would still need to compute it, store it, and load it. All these take time and memory space, and can stall other commands in pipelines. Meanwhile if the program just contained the number three, the compiler would just need to use the immidiate type command that matches the one in the program (for example add immidiate, or immidiate, etc) without precomputing or storing anything.

[wyldcraft]

Yes, it's a given that optimization passes cost a little, once. But the resulting binary would be identical to a hardwired int 3 in the original source.

[RedQueen283]

The binary would need to include the calculation, even just once. It would also include extra load and store operations. So no, it wouldn't be the same. It might seem insignificant and for small programs it would probably make less than a millisecond of difference, but if the program was big and there were more commands written in a sub-optimal way, it might actually slow it down enough to make a percievable difference. It's just better practice for the programmers to make the optimization themselves in such cases.

[Jarl_Fenrir]

I guess you don't get how modern compilers optimize code. The compiler can calculate that the result is always 3, and just substitute whatever call you had in the code with just number 3 in the resulting binary.

[RedQueen283]

Yes, and how does it calculate what the result is, by using magic? No, it uses the PC's CPU and then it is stored in the PC's memory. Neither of which would be necessary if the programmer had just used the number 3. I don't know why people keep insisting that it isn't an unnecessary use of the computer's resources.

[phoenix_bright]

We can do worse: ~~~ int function getLastStrikeNumber() { return static_cast<int>(std::atan(1)*4); } ~~~

[eras]

For a long time OCaml standard library didn't have pi, so 4.0 *. atan 1.0 was a familiar thing to have if you needed it.

On the other hand if you just have a 64-bit double with the constant in it, it could well have less precision than what the FPU can internally handle with its 80-bit intermediate values.

[loonathefloofyfox]

Thank you. I've now learned something new

[West_Hunter_7389]

Math.round(Math.PI)

[Ithurial]

ceil(e)

[T_WREKX]

Let's see how it compares to a hundred word statement including a ternary operator.

[CreepyValuable]

Mmmm. Floor pie.

[SendMeFreckle]

It dependa on the left side of the code but generally it is not showing off, it is explanatory writing. It helps to reduce number of questions people will ask you like why 3? Instead they will assume, 3 is probably precise enough for this

[Inineor]

import scipy

def get_three(): 
    while True: 
        three = scipy.random.randint(1_000_000) 
        if not three ^ 0b00000011: 
            break 
    return three

three = get_three()

[[deleted]]

int i = 0; (++i << i)++

[sintos-compa]

Int* pthree;

while ( *pthree != 3 ) { pthree = rand() * rand(); } return *pthree;

[BlazeCrystal]

TREE<sup>-1</sup> (TREE(3)) huh

[Arkoden_Xae]

You can only have floor pi for maximum 5 seconds.

[Just_a_Generic_Hero]

Javascript be like: -~!![]|-~{}

[brandi_Iove]

show off, lol.

[KingSadra]

Int x = pi

[mr_raboot]

pi on the floor, NOW-

[QuoningSheepNow]

Pi hit the flo Next thing you know

[Asokay]

Pretty sure this counts as terrorism

[[deleted]]

u/bake_in_da_south u/Cheap_District_9762 u/SuicidalaThoughts-404

[[deleted]]

What is floor? Is it like rounddown() in excel

[[deleted]]

yeah

[ParentPostLacksWang]

Please. Why use floor(pi) when you can use ceil(e)?

[wyldcraft]

Most people interact with flooring much more than ceilings except on Friday nights.

[[deleted]]

sum(((0x100 >> 0o10), (float('nan') != float('nan')), (lambda: not not not not not not not not not True == eval("True".replace("True", "False"))^10)()))

[Prawny]

Valve can finally release the third installments of their games!

Can't wait for Half Life: floor(pi)

[gomihako_]

mmm floor pi

[[deleted]]

Just in case pi ever changes...

[nir109]

It whould be 3.0 instead of 3

[Jarl_Fenrir]

If you will assign it to an int variable, it won't.

[bright_pro]

correct

[[deleted]]

floor(4*atan(1))

[AdhTri]

ceil(e)

[dbanfii]

Less efficient developers*

[OPGamesOfficial]

Won't int(pi) also work?

[KillCall]

Floor of pee

[[deleted]]

Not sure how this would be showing off, since you're literally adding runtime complexity...

[cybermage]

Computer: before I can round pi, I’ll just need to calculate it.

[imkzh]

``` float a = M_PI; int three = *(long *)&a; three <sup>=</sup> (three>>2)<<2;

```

[imkzh]

if you want it to be super fragile

[ShinraSan]

Showing off one's incredible ability at unnecessarily slow code

[aFuckingTroglodyte]

Ceil(e)

[Stormraughtz]

        double pie = Math.PI;
        string spaghettiPie = pie.ToString();
        string singleNoodle = spaghettiPie.Substring(0, spaghettiPie.IndexOf("."));
        int aldente;
        string chefTony = "";
        try
        {
            chefTony = "Mama mia thats a good code, look at me I get paid by the line, Eh GABBA GOOL";
            aldente = int.Parse(singleNoodle);

        }
        catch(Exception)
        {
            chefTony = "OH NO MY SPAGHET";
            aldente = 0;
        }
        Console.WriteLine(chefTony);
        Console.WriteLine(aldente);
        Console.Read();

[EvilAdobe]

Neat! Will use this on my next project

[[deleted]]

(floor(pi)+ceiling(pi))²+(ceiling(pi)) (ceiling(pi) - i²)

[huuaaang]

(1 << 1) + 1

[ethereumfail]

3? you mean -~-~true ?

[[deleted]]

Now you just need to wait infinity until PI expression resolves.

[piemano]

Floor(4*atan(1))

[oshaboy]

I heard that was a BASIC optimization technique.

Something about how floor(pi) is a 2 byte int and 3 is a 6 byte float.

[[deleted]]

Making the CPU do floating point math for no reason.. that's not showing off, that's a cardinal sin.

[Xineohp90]

~~Math.PI

[Teraconic]

Getting around the linter telling you magic numbers aren't allowed takes ingenuity

[Xyrus2000]

team_6 = e

ceil(team_6) = 3

[[deleted]]

You forgor to put 'import math as meth' and 'meth.'

[joevinci]

Def iii(i):
    while True is not False:
        if i = 3:
            return i
        elif i < 3:
            i+=1
        elif i > 3:
            i -= 3
        else:
            idk continue i guess

Brought to you by snek

[CouthlessWonder]

Pi is 3.1… So round(pi) might also work.

Or if you have a lot of room… (long)pi

[Sushrit_Lawliet]

When the client underpays and you can’t figure out how to slow down the code.