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Re: A Problem To Solve :-)

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On 2/14/2024 12:50 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> eople there began muttering in disapproval. Physfit got curious and 
> stopped to think for a moment. Then confident why Stallman had said 
> that, he kicked the monkey out of his way and went outside. Area being 
> flat as fuck, he spotted the peculiar summit of the magic mountain from 
> afar and walked back to his car and drove the relatively short distance 
> home.



Parked the car somewhere convenient to jump back in, cause you never 
know when the cats food supplies may need replenishment. Then just as he 
approached the portico to get in, the postman hailed behind him, "Dr. 
M... you have the IRS mail you had inquired about earlier."

"This 'Dr.' crap again," Physfit said to himself, "he must've seen that 
funny prefix on some of the mail I rarely get from the alumni association."

Physfit signed for the certified letter and took it inside. Cleared the 
cat-accessible desk from the cats, sat down and openned it right away 
cause when IRS contacts you with certified mail, there's a clusterfuck 
somewhere.

Huh! ...

So what does Physfit see in the IRS letter? The letter goes like this:


    "Since you Mr. ... are Iran-backed, the tax you paid for year 2023, 
under the newly enacted law, will have to be calculated as:

         new 2023 tax = (old 2023 tax)^100

You have 90 days to pay the amount due. If you have any questions, you 
can call IRS at 1-800-382-1871.

                  'In god we trust, and Jewish dick, we suck.'
                           - Book of Mormon, Penis X, 7:14"


... So the bill that those pervert criminals in the government had 
recently passed into law to fit the beastly desires of the now dumbed 
down Americans, had kicked in.

"Let me just for laughs see what the amount comes to", said Physfit to 
himself. The qbasic computer screen was still on since the night before. 
He sat down and typed:

oldTax = 6822
newTAX = (oldTAX)**100
print, "new tax is now = "; newTAX

and he hit F5.

An error message comes up saying, "Error 3407." He looked it up via the 
other computer and found that there was actually a diagnostic software 
written just for causes of that error. He downloaded the software and 
copied it to jump drive and ran it on the troubled computer. A message 
came up saying, "Cannot diagnose. The central processing unit can only 
perform 8 multiplications."

"Zepeleshk!..." (Iranian term for something funny and yet gross)

He looked at the back of the computer and there it was, all the 
telltales of cats having urinated inside the computer through the 
ventilation mesh. He turned to the computer itself as if it is a person, 
and told it, "So how the hell are you supposed to raise a number to the 
power of 100?"

"Hmm... let's see!" he said, and began thinking. In about one minute he 
changed and rewrote the above qbasic code and had the dysfunctional cpu 
compute the power of 100 by only 8 multiplications.

What was the new code?







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Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-14 12:50 -0600
  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2024-02-14 20:33 +0000
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 13:22 -0600
  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-18 01:51 -0600
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-21 00:38 -0600
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-27 16:13 -0600

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