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🎶… if you are the big half si-i-ix We are the small axe-es… 🎶

i was half expecting you to repost the random int function one completely unaltered lol

what really broke my mind recently is that there isn't just "0" (zero) but +0 and -0 and they are not the same?! and everyone knows /0 is NaN (divide by zero is not a number) but did you know ∞ x 0 (infinity times zero) is also NaN? that was new to me and I don't completely grasp it yet

Timely!

Christians should assume this number is one.

I love the idea of a baker's pair. The baker's thousand, associated with Arabian nights, is divisible by a baker's half-dozen, ten and dozen. A baker's string quartet has a double bass or a second cello. Bakers use the concept of a Baker's couple to justify infidelity.

I'm just surprised that this wasn't put forward in 2026. I suppose there's still time

"Half six" would be 5.5 in Danish, but the only surviving variant in modern Danish is "halvanden" ("half second", 1.5)

@lowqualityfacts.bsky.social this is a fountain of truthiness

Pretty sure 7 is behind this. 6 knows what he’s capable of.

But how are we to time our Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch?

Denmark has this between 50 and 100. Absolute tragedy

Common quebecoise win

*watches conversation in Danish*

2 3 4 mother truckers

Did you ever hear the legend of the integer between 2 and 3? ... it is not a story the Jedi tell often.

Ah, that explains the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone

Guess we know what Randall was patching this morning. 😂 Unpleasant wake up for a lot of us, I suppose.

What happened now?

Suggest folks shop all the buy 2 get 1 free sales while the vulnerability lasts.

First web page in '94. php? A sitting duck; always has been. Thanks to AI for finally fixing it!

So that's what happened at valve HQ...

That's why the French say 80 as quatre-vignt, 4-20.

Twice four means you gave both the public and the private key

And there are contexts where this makes sense in the western world as well. We do not measure grain in number of individual grains. There becomes a point when an exact count is gratuitous. For some cultures that threshold is so low it impacts number theory itself.

You mean Seven A?

Oh well, I only use 6-7 anyway.

Is "poor man's pi" safe ?

valve have been ahead of us for so long... it all makes sense now

Petition to officially call this vuln "Cert4"

The PHP Foundation warns that, thanks to Chainguard, attackers can already study the fix in binary form: 11

this seems like a perfect opportunity to make gumballs a national standard youtu.be/cqRo_xNebkY?...

This but with an Indian accent

Nah you're thinking of the integer between 0 and 2, because "America first"

@valvesoftware.com knew about this issue for years actually

Th- tr- it doesn't work oh no THEY DISABLED THE HALF SIX

THEY KILLED THREE. AGAIN...

Count von Count has been briefed. “Today’s XKCD was brought to you by the number four. One, two, half six, four, ah, ah, ah!”

xkcd3333 will be a buffer overrun.

(although i guess it would miss the window for the whole current "critical vulnerabilities found in the foundations of everything" thing going on)

Danish-ass numbering solution

Bakers two lol

🤷‍♀️ No shame in that.

Five is right out

A similar day zero vulnerability with numbers past 4 is why original unpatched I Ching Calculators displayed all such results as "A suffusion of yellow"

Lots one, lots two, lots many, lots lots, lots lots one ...

4

But what happens if I say three?

Is a "quarter dozen" acceptable?

This was PHP yesterday.

Why not calling it a quarter dozen?

A dozen is 12 and a bakers dozen is 13(12+1) so a bakers 2 is 2+1

😶

An "Archers four" is also acceptable

Or the very apt “a couple”

British readers: But 5.5 isn't between two and four...

This is several different SCPs lol

That's very different and not usable outside certain adult contexts.

certificate authorities, php, nodejs, and gitlab be like

May the Fours be with you.

Proceed to three

floor(pi) is always a popular substitute

42 even

Okay Gabe Newell, I forgive you this time

Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to Half Six.

Back in nineteen-tickety-two, we had to say tickety on account of all the service tickets the number 20 generated.

no doubt related to why six is afraid of seven

not for cases where the dozen is a bakers' dozen "quarter dozen (not bakers')"

In Scandinavian languages, half-sixth would mean five and a half.

workarounds exist

Don't forget bleem

Hmmm hmm what about fractions?

So the set of critical vulnerabilities in the integers has density 0? No worries. 😎

Reminds me of this short story strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

This reads like an SCP article where half-six has become anomalous. :D

this makes sense, as 5 uses 1.5 times as many bits to encode as 4, exponentially increasing the time to crack it

I think we must consult llamas.

vulnerabilities discovered by AI are like this.