A human picks a number, and with probability 1 it is not the largest currently known merseinne prime plus 5.
Actually I don't think that would hit probability 1. It would have a lot of nines to be sure, maybe over 3,500,000, but it would not be 1. There are two obvious ways this can happen:
Once you have a human who just might reel off a very long random string of digits for fun, and keep going at one digit per second for eight hours per day, for 121 days, there is a non-zero probability of that sequence being your number.
The person could use another means of specifying the number, for example by saying "The largest currently known merseinne prime plus five".
Now that you have set the challenge, I expect the probability of option 2 to go right up.
The author appears to be unaware of DCE RPC, of which MS have a cheap, though somewhat buggy*, implementation.
DCOM is fab. COM is fab. DCE RPC is fab, though I wish they'd specified an endianism, instead of reader makes right.
* the hand-coded stubs for the COM/Automation VARIANT type didn't interoperate properly with Bigendian machines, last time I checked. If you're not using that, you'll likely be OK.
The appeal court ruled that it was not illegal for MS to make their JVM incompatible.
They did not rule that MS had a monopoloy on Java.
They ruled that it was illegal for MS to deceive developers into accidentally writing Win32 only code, which only an idiot believes happened on any significant scale.
Your economy is not based on the suffering of many underdeveloped countries. Trade is mutually beneficial. Your economy is indifferent to the suffering of people in underdeveloped countries, or there would be more trade, not less.
There is more than enough food for everyone on the planet already; no-one needs to be a vegetarian who doesn't want to.
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A human picks a number, and with probability 1 it is not the largest currently known merseinne prime plus 5.
Actually I don't think that would hit probability 1. It would have a lot of nines to be sure, maybe over 3,500,000, but it would not be 1. There are two obvious ways this can happen:
Now that you have set the challenge, I expect the probability of option 2 to go right up.
So you think people can never be inhuma?
The author appears to be unaware of DCE RPC, of which MS have a cheap, though somewhat buggy*, implementation.
DCOM is fab. COM is fab. DCE RPC is fab, though I wish they'd specified an endianism, instead of reader makes right.
* the hand-coded stubs for the COM/Automation VARIANT type didn't interoperate properly with Bigendian machines, last time I checked. If you're not using that, you'll likely be OK.
Dork.
The appeal court ruled that it was not illegal for MS to make their JVM incompatible.
They did not rule that MS had a monopoloy on Java.
They ruled that it was illegal for MS to deceive developers into accidentally writing Win32 only code, which only an idiot believes happened on any significant scale.
MS dropped Java support because Sun told them to.
- Your economy is not based on the suffering of many underdeveloped countries. Trade is mutually beneficial. Your economy is indifferent to the suffering of people in underdeveloped countries, or there would be more trade, not less.
- There is more than enough food for everyone on the planet already; no-one needs to be a vegetarian who doesn't want to.
Just a little fact check.