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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jul 20, 2012 22:48 UTC (Fri) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)In reply to: Quotes of the week by fuhchee Parent article: Quotes of the week
who cares about the decimal equivalence of a magic number constant?
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Quotes of the week Posted Jul 21, 2012 21:32 UTC (Sat) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]
> who cares about the decimal equivalence of a magic number constant?
You usually can't just change magic numbers without breaking backwards compatibility with existing systems or data. Fuhchee's suggestion is to keep the same constant, but refer to it using the decimal representation of 2976579765 rather than the controversial hexadecimal representation.
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