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Title: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: Admin on 2008-12-18T11:38:23-06:00 (Thursday)
Hey check it out, the next poster will be number 10000 (base 10)!
Title: Re: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: Justin Camerer on 2008-12-18T12:19:09-06:00 (Thursday)
what?
Title: Re: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: Gregory Bartholomew on 2008-12-18T12:22:48-06:00 (Thursday)
Who would have guessed, the 10,000th post to CAOS was one of confusion!
Title: Re: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: Tangent Orchard on 2008-12-18T16:14:31-06:00 (Thursday)
My stats page says this post is the 10,000th one, actually.  Were two deleted in the meantime?

Either way, I thought it was pretty funny that you actually had to specify base 10, lol. :P
Title: Re: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: Gregory Bartholomew on 2008-12-18T16:36:39-06:00 (Thursday)
I think the post count must have dropped because of a few adverts that were deleted recently.  I guess we hit the 10000 mark twice then?  I just thought it was a milestone worth pointing out.  I did notice in the code that runs CAOS behind the scenes that there are some special archiving/optimization rules that will trigger at 100,000 messages.  Thankfully, we're a long way from that (I'm thankful anyway because I worry about such rarely triggered code blocks in the way that may people were worried about Y2K).

Anybody else think base 10 is an awkward way to count?  I think I've heard it said that we use base 10 because that is the number of fingers that we happen to have but, mathematically speaking, a base that is a multiple of a consecutive set of primes would be much nicer (e.g. 2, 6, 30, etc.) IMHO.

gb
Title: Re: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: blacklee on 2008-12-19T08:19:18-06:00 (Friday)
nooo ... I like base 10. It is bad enough getting used to inches, feet, pounds etc. Metric system is so much easier.

P.S. : I just noticed glow , shadow , and
marquee
. Is it new? I did not see it before.

rules base 10
:-)


Title: Re: Post 10,000 Anyone?
Post by: Justin Camerer on 2008-12-19T08:48:55-06:00 (Friday)
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