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The Number War: Count to 100 or -100


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0b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000101011

Can't escape!

This post have 2 things I have to point out, to make precedence for future:

First - the word warping problem - the forum has a space to break an extremely long number, which shows on the post.

I will say now: Any number with more than 1 digits must be written together, like how people commonly writes. If there are space between the digits, they would be considered separated numbers and will fall to dual interpretation, as anyone can claim, for example "4 3" as "4 and 3" or "43" however way it is more advantageous for them. Back to this case though, even though the space on long numbers is not of players' control, it will still fall to the same rule and will be nulled, because otherwise it would force the error checker to try to quote every single post using this tactic to see if the space was intentional or not. It would be quite unfair for them.

Second - the numeric system. The rule does not forbid players to use other numeric system than decimal. However, it will ask the player to be clear about which numeric system they are using if it is not obvious, to avoid dual interpretation. So if you for example write in binary, you would need to clarify that it is binary all the way. Which, luckily in this case, you all use "0b" prefix which I would consider, tenuously, acceptable. The prefix for binary string does clarify that it is a binary number, but this is not very common knowledge. Googling does provide some clues to them being binary and then you can convert them to decimal however, so technically, it is researchable and thus acceptable. Still, I might change my opinion depending on how this might be used later.

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^ Well then, the last valid number is this:

Which is what..............

seriously guys, stop with that, a lot of people are totally lost and can't post numbers now cause we have no idea what you guys are doing.

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Which is what..............

seriously guys, stop with that, a lot of people are totally lost and can't post numbers now cause we have no idea what you guys are doing.

Which is the same as the atomic number of Ruthenium.

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