[rambus]

When I'm writing an equation by hand, an equal sign with a slash through it means 'not equal'.

I'll assume thats real notation in some computer language, but its seems very counter intuitive.
(what language??)


Flooring and dropping the decimal ARE different when you're dealing with negative numbers.
Which would only be an issue for the discussion if you were somehow nuking for negative damage.


After rereading the thread I think I was just confused by the order of cookies quotes (and the odd equivalence notation).

Cookies just meant that byrthnoth didn't need to be reminded to drop the decimal because he was already flooring, right??

idk what cookies is writing to confuse you but =/= means does not equal

[[Cookies]]

Cookies just meant that byrthnoth didn't need to be reminded to drop the decimal because he was already flooring, right??

Correct.

The symbol you were thinking of is ≠.

Taken from wiki:

(As ≠ can be hard to type, the more “keyboard friendly” forms !=, /= or <> may be seen. These are avoided in mathematical texts.)

=/= is the same as = in my experience.

idk what cookies is writing to confuse you but =/= means does not equal

Wrong as usual.

[Amentis]

God, you guys need to stop with the cat fight. :<

[rambus]

God, you guys need to stop with the cat fight. :<

helps to ignore or blacklist him, all he does is argue to argue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_not_equal

In programming languages

Most programming languages, which are limited to the ASCII character set, use "~=", "!=", "/=", "=/=" or "<>" to represent "not equal to"; "!=" has carried over into newsgroups and Internet forums.

In programming languages, the equals sign may either denote a boolean operator to test equality of values (sometimes a double equal sign "=="), or it may denote an assignment (sometimes denoted with a colon-equals ":="). In some programming languages such as PHP a double equals sign ("==") denotes equivalence, meaning that the variables may not be of the same data type, but their values can be reduced to the same value. The triple equal sign ("===") denotes identity[1], meaning that not only do the two values parse to be the same, they are of the same data type. For instance, in PHP the expression ("0 == false") is true, but ("0 === false") is not, because the number 0 is an integer value, whereas false is a boolean.

so Gyth is still right.....

I really really hope you are not seriously shudesting that doing "=/=" is the same as "=", and proves my point you are just trying to provoke some fail smatices argument.

[[Cookies]]

so Gyth is still right.....

I really really hope you are not seriously shudesting that doing "=/=" is the same as "=", and proves my point you are just trying to provoke some fail smatices argument.

At the end of the day it's irrelevant, i've explained what I meant. Now shh.

Dropping the decimal is the same as flooring (in terms of what we're calculating).

[rambus]

At the end of the day it's irrelevant, i've explained what I meant. Now shh.

Dropping the decimal is the same as flooring (in terms of what we're calculating).

ya maybe w/e i just never got the "flooring" term or name.

fighting is dumb lets move on

[pathwriter]

Kiss and make-up now. And film it.