• Variant does not contain an object (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    Exactly NaN, no more, no less.

  • k (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    Maybe that's why they had issues seating the tray, difficult process fitting an infinite amount of something in a finite space.

  • Ethan (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    Probably almost enough to afford one of those flights...

  • Michael (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    Simple. You'd either get nothing or a whole lot money. If you had a $10 bill and wanted to trade it for $5 bills you would divide 10 by 5 to figure out you needed 2 $5 bills. So if you had a $5 bill and wanted to trade it for $0 bills then you would divide 5 by 0 and that stupid Wal-Mart machine would probably error out and not give you anything or more likely preceed to spit out all the bills in each cassette (assuming that Wal-Mart's programmers are as adept as their greeters that is).

  • willem (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    till the intrinsic worth of the paper of the zero-dollar-bills equals 5 dollar.

  • (cs) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?
    Zero dollar bills are extremely rare, so they're actually worth quite a lot. --Rank
  • (cs) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?
    Well, the paper they would be printed on must be worth something. At some point you'll have $5 worth of paper.
  • Alex (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    You won't get any. The dispenser's empty. :P

  • (cs) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    The exact same number as you would get if you had a 10 dollar bill and you traded it for zero dollar bills.

    Or to put it another way, the exact same number as you would get if you had a zero dollar bill and you traded it for zero dollar bills.

    Which is why one should be enough for anybody!

  • (cs) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    Easy to work out...

    5 / 0 = E

    so that means you would get E ammout of 0 dollar bills for your 5 dollar bill.

    In other words, if you are 1337(leet), you will get 3. If not... Well...

  • Saemundr (unregistered)

    $85K... whos to say its displaying in US$? isnt the exchange rate to canadian like 1700:1?

    50$ for those flights isnt horrendous, is it?

  • (cs) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    None. The offer is, after all, to trade a $5 for 0 $1s.

  • Savings (unregistered) in reply to AdT

    When Walmart said low prices, they meant LOW.

    Now I just need to convince them to let me PAY with $0 bills...

  • Savings (unregistered) in reply to BlueXero
    BlueXero:
    Easy to work out...

    5 / 0 = E

    so that means you would get E ammout of 0 dollar bills for your 5 dollar bill.

    In other words, if you are 1337(leet), you will get 3. If not... Well...

    You get $14 after you figure out how to undo the hex?

  • chaos95 (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?
    Oh shi-
  • (cs)

    OK, can someone explain what the WTF is on the power one? I don't get it.

    All I see is a webcam driver (quite possibly from OmniVision) asking for the rate the lights flicker in your country. It's pretty clear in it's intentions, and unless the leading sentence of it BSODing is the WTF, I don't get it.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to tin
    tin:
    OK, can someone explain what the WTF is on the power one? I don't get it.

    All I see is a webcam driver (quite possibly from OmniVision) asking for the rate the lights flicker in your country. It's pretty clear in it's intentions, and unless the leading sentence of it BSODing is the WTF, I don't get it.

    1. None of the sentences ends with a punctuation mark
    2. "countries" is mispelt.
    3. Blanks are incorrectly used , in front of commas , and also between "live" and "in".
    4. "Do you live in 50 Hz" makes no sense. The intent of the question is obvious but the wording is poor.
    5. BSODing when the user selects the correct answer is not a WTF?
  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    This is why division by zero is undefined.

  • Daniel Barbalace (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    NaN

  • (cs) in reply to Saemundr
    Saemundr:
    $85K... whos to say its displaying in US$? isnt the exchange rate to canadian like 1700:1?

    Dude, you haven't been paying attention... I have some fairly shocking news for you.

    You might need to be sitting down for this.

    .

    .

    .

    Parity.

    When did you last put the computer down and go outside, anyway? :-P

  • Daniel Barbalace (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    NaN

  • Herohtar (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    The real reason they were out of $0 bills: Walmart was using them to pay their workers for the extra hours they put in.

    Lol, nice.

  • (cs) in reply to Savings
    Savings:
    BlueXero:
    Easy to work out...

    5 / 0 = E

    so that means you would get E ammout of 0 dollar bills for your 5 dollar bill.

    In other words, if you are 1337(leet), you will get 3. If not... Well...

    You get $14 after you figure out how to undo the hex?

    no... You get 14 $0 bills...

  • (cs) in reply to Steve H.
    Steve H.:

    That dialog is all too simplistic: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/WorldMap_Voltage%26Frequency.png

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet

    You failed to notice that Toronto's airport was involved. That rate is actually a deal, that considered.

    (Yes, I'm kidding..But YYZ is known as one of the most expensive airports in the world)

  • Zuni (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    Well somebody tried that, and got quite many. That's why they ran out.

  • Igor Almeida (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?
    Nullity, for sure.
  • El_oscuro (unregistered)

    One of the Harris Teeter checkout machines was sitting on the NT 4.0 desktop. I asked the clerk if she wanted me to reboot it. Before she could answer or stop me, I rebooted it using the touch screen. Not sure if it fixed the problem.

    My credit cards tend to get "swiped out" (when machines have trouble reading them). One day, when I swiped it at Home Depot, it caused the BSOD. They had to close the register.

  • (cs) in reply to Kiss me I'm Polish
    Kiss me I'm Polish:
    Yes, this meeting is not for committee purposes No, this meeting is not for committee purposes
    Negative questions have only one logical response. Shoot the questioner in the head.
  • Eric (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    [quote=Cheatah]Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?[/quote] 7. I have to make some money somewhere, exchange tax and all.

  • Pete (unregistered)

    The real WTF is you're all calling a "note" (entitling you to something) a "bill" (a notice that you must pay money to someone else). Silly, daft Americans... ;-)

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    5. BSODing when the user selects the correct answer is not a WTF?

    WTF: Curious Perversions in IT

    Curious: Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

    Perversion: The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. 2. an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse. 3. a curve that reverses the direction of something.

    BSOD's are fairly common, unsurprising (come on, can any of us honestly say we're truly surprised when an installer for a device driver pops up a BSOD?), simple and plain events. BSOD's might be the result of aberrant sexual practices, but there's no evidence of that occurring in this case.

    Therefore, a BSOD in and of itself isn't a WTF.

  • Bryin (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    You'd get exactly STACK OVERFLOW ERROR

  • NN (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    "If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?"

    That's easy - "Illegal division by zero", or "NaN" bills.

  • jack (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    NaN

  • Jeeway (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    In a fictional world, you would have an infinte amount of worthless bills :P

    Then maybe you could sell them to the paper industry and get rich for real...in the fictional world...

  • Waffle (unregistered) in reply to Jeeway
    Jeeway:
    In a fictional world, you would have an infinte amount of worthless bills :P

    Then maybe you could sell them to the paper industry and get rich for real...in the fictional world...

    ... or exchange that quantity of fictional bills for real "€ " & Positive_Amount bills to people who only care about their life in said fictional world.

  • Luke (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    One!

    The bank will get 5 dollar commision, so you get exactly one zero dollar bill.

  • Jon B (unregistered)

    So this brings up another issue. What president should go on the $NaN bill?

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    My old D-Link webcam always asked if I lived in a 50hz. It also had to reinstall drivers after I un and plugged it back in for some reason.

  • (cs) in reply to Jon B
    Jon B:
    So this brings up another issue. What president should go on the $NaN bill?

    Maybe it should be someone who is not a president, although we already have people who were never President of the United States (e.g. Franklin, Hamilton) on our money.

    On further reflection, I think the $NaN note should carry the picture of someone who is not on any U.S. paper money, including the $NaN note.

  • Henry Miller (unregistered) in reply to Zygo

    [quote user="ZygoBSOD's are fairly common, unsurprising (come on, can any of us honestly say we're truly surprised when an installer for a device driver pops up a BSOD?), simple and plain events. BSOD's might be the result of aberrant sexual practices, but there's no evidence of that occurring in this case.

    Therefore, a BSOD in and of itself isn't a WTF.[/quote]

    A BSOD is ALWAYS a WTF. Human error happens, so we can understand why they happen all the time. However that doesn't change the fact that they should never happen.

  • (cs) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?
    Gee, I don't really know the answer to that one. You need to talk to First Citywide Bank of Change...
  • zzp (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    About ∞ bills.

  • Lan (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    Over nine thousand.

  • Mordien (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    All of them!

  • NULL (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah

    Well, it depends. If you're exchanging in an ATM, you should get another bill: Cannot divide by zero bill, NULL bill, or a Nullpointer Exception bill, depending on the programming language the people used to build the ATM. If you try to exchange with someone, I think that we would need to come up with a whole new math systems, which is easier just to exchange for one 'NULL bill'. WTF!!

  • (cs) in reply to Saemundr
    Saemundr:
    $85K... whos to say its displaying in US$? isnt the exchange rate to canadian like 1700:1?

    50$ for those flights isnt horrendous, is it?

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but take a look at this.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Cheatah
    Cheatah:
    Here's one to think about. If you have a 5 dollar bill, and you want to trade them for zero dollar bills. How many bills would you get?

    Well you would get zero obviously.

  • kevin (unregistered)

    I get that power frequency setting dialog all the time when I'm installing my eyetoy as a webcam. So confusing!

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