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Re: xkcd: Day Counter

From Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.comics.strips, comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: xkcd: Day Counter
Date 2026-04-05 10:22 -0400
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Message-ID <10qtr82$1f4di$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Lynn McGuire wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

> xkcd: Day Counter
>     https://xkcd.com/3228/
>
> Yes, floating point errors are the bane of my life !  Not so much now 
> with double precision but the single precision days were nightmares.

Well these days we have long double.

> Explained at:
>     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3228:_Day_Counter
>
> Whatever you do, do not select “Space Opera Mode” in the new mode drop 
> down list.  "Boat mode" made me a little queasy after a while.  And 
> "modem mode" does not seem to do anything.

Took me a little while to figure out where the mode dropdown was
when in Origami mode.

-- 
"One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe."
		-- Tom Anderson

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  Re: xkcd: Day Counter R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-04-04 10:55 +0200
    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> - 2026-04-04 09:25 -0700
    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 22:21 +0000
  Re: xkcd: Day Counter Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> - 2026-04-04 10:40 -0400
    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2026-04-04 11:01 -0400
  Re: xkcd: Day Counter Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me> - 2026-04-04 11:44 -0500
  Re: xkcd: Day Counter Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-04-05 10:22 -0400
    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-04-05 14:13 -0700
      Re: xkcd: Day Counter Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-04-06 05:25 +0000
        Re: xkcd: Day Counter Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-04-06 00:43 -0700
          Re: xkcd: Day Counter Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-04-06 20:14 +0000
            Re: xkcd: Day Counter Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-04-06 14:30 -0700
  Re: xkcd: Day Counter candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-04-06 14:40 +0000

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