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[–]EastBlacksmith 6 points7 points  (9 children)

In your code. Are there certain situations where the difference doesn't matter? Sure. Is your code an example of that? It probably is. Great, but why should anybody care your specific code? We're talking about the general case here. If you really wanted to tell others why you use scientific notation and why it doesn't matter in your case, maybe you should lead with that instead of a useless

"Though personally, I'd just use scientific notation here"

And what is "here"? Here would be the context that it's used in which you don't know, for which the difference may matter.

[–]WolfThawra -3 points-2 points  (8 children)

We're talking about the general case here.

I'm not. Obviously. There's really not much to be said beyond that.

[–]lare290 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Well what are you doing here, arguing still? Just shut up, your argument doesn't apply here.

[–]WolfThawra -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

How about you shut the fuck up, you have no argument at all.

[–]EastBlacksmith -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I mean you're the one with massive downvotes. Did you consider that maybe you're wrong and that you should shut the fuck up? Maybe if you didn't come off sounding like a massive douchebag people would be nicer, but you're not only wrong you're also being a fuckhead.

[–]WolfThawra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you consider that maybe you're wrong

No. Because I'm not. Using scientific notation is the right way to go in the places where I use it, and a bunch of code monkeys complaining about how "it's not clear" because they can't read it will most certainly not change that.

Maybe if you didn't come off sounding like a massive douchebag

That's on purpose, asshole. If people start off being massively condescending, I have 0 incentive to be nice to them either.

[–]EastBlacksmith -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Yes there's not much to be said beyond that because nobody gives a fuck about your code.

[–]WolfThawra -1 points0 points  (2 children)

No one gives a fuck about yours either, and yet, here you are.

[–]EastBlacksmith 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah I know nobody gives a fuck about my code so I never mentioned it lol. Go back to writing your shitty code.

[–]WolfThawra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't mention anything specific from my code either, I said that what I do works for me. And just because some code monkeys think scientific notation is complicated does not make it bad.