I'm on a couple of usability lists and one of them sparked a slightly strange exchange of messages a few minutes ago:
> 8:00:01 (in fact 8:00:00 + 1/infinity seconds)
That would be 8:00:00 + (the smallest increment that the clock measures).
You can't divide an integer by infinity. (Nor a rational number, nor an irrational number, nor a complex number, etc. -- for those who would quibble that I have limited it to integers :-)
So what did we talk about before we had the internet?
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What a hoot! You're so right. I read stuff like this all the time on the web. Just came here from a "discussion" of nearly a 100 posts on whether <br /> was presentational or not. It got downright nasty. I mean, pu-lease. People. It's a <br />.
Posted by Kathy Marks
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May 28, 2005 9:11 AM
Posted on May 28, 2005 09:11