Newsflash!
6 September 2002 12:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_eggwhiteMathematicians have been wrong all these years
A staggering discovery has been made today by Microsoft VBScript. Contrary to the evidence of mathematicians, tradespeople and economists throughout history, five is in fact greater than six. Todays discovery was highlighted when a piece of code, when requested to take action if one number (A) was less than another (B). Everything went to plan when the numbers were equal, or when A was greater than B, but when A was given the number 5 and B was given the number 6 (which was previously thought to be smaller), still no action was taken.
"We were astounded when we heard," said Prof. Monaghan Sump of Grömnich university, "We've always acted on the idea that 6 was greater than five, on the grounds that six similar objects take up more space than five of them. Clearly this cannot be taken as an indicator of magnitude any more. We must rethink many aspects of science to cater for this."
Already the backlash has begun, with supporters of the number 5 laying siege to the six-ian strongholds. Legislation is already expected requiring the locations of houses and buildings bearing the numbers five and six to be swapped.
I know why this is, and it's a fair explanation of why VB is a mickey mouse language. VB does not require datatypes. You can assign them if you want to, but otherwise it just pretends it doesn't need to know. Quite often, you give it a number and it decides that you have not given it a number, but have given it a character. In this case, that character "5" is greater than the number 6.
A staggering discovery has been made today by Microsoft VBScript. Contrary to the evidence of mathematicians, tradespeople and economists throughout history, five is in fact greater than six. Todays discovery was highlighted when a piece of code, when requested to take action if one number (A) was less than another (B). Everything went to plan when the numbers were equal, or when A was greater than B, but when A was given the number 5 and B was given the number 6 (which was previously thought to be smaller), still no action was taken.
"We were astounded when we heard," said Prof. Monaghan Sump of Grömnich university, "We've always acted on the idea that 6 was greater than five, on the grounds that six similar objects take up more space than five of them. Clearly this cannot be taken as an indicator of magnitude any more. We must rethink many aspects of science to cater for this."
Already the backlash has begun, with supporters of the number 5 laying siege to the six-ian strongholds. Legislation is already expected requiring the locations of houses and buildings bearing the numbers five and six to be swapped.
I know why this is, and it's a fair explanation of why VB is a mickey mouse language. VB does not require datatypes. You can assign them if you want to, but otherwise it just pretends it doesn't need to know. Quite often, you give it a number and it decides that you have not given it a number, but have given it a character. In this case, that character "5" is greater than the number 6.
