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.. square FEET?
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Was it anger or was it just that the US administration were so excited to have some lovely shiny new toys to play with? Many a military undertaking has been initiated because the boys are itching to play with their new toys. Witness the excitement in the UK air force at the recent Libya conflict - they've got some new planes they wanted to test out, as reported gleefully by the BBC.
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Yeah, my dancing teacher tells me I've got square feet.
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Must give the guy credit for his assumption that values could also be unicode algebra, rather than just purely numerical!
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Simple .. the name of the column tells us that the length is measured in Square Feet ...
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wait ... what?
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Yeah, let him get into politics and screw up an entire country instead ... less harm in that ..
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Output bytes: 9E FF FF FF 8C 0A, YMMV. What C programmers tend to know is 'A' + 32 == 'a', though (unless they've experience with EBCDIC, the poor buggers).
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The real WTF IS Metric - lazy asshats.
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because length is not the same as area
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SQFT = Square Feet.
And yes, not using metrics is a serious WTF.
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Right, because a slash can only mean division. Ever.
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and I could assume that the quantity would be in spelled-out string, like 'three hundred and eighty-six' and there is a custom stored procedure that parses those strings into numbers ..?