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		MrRage on Dec 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If programming languages were religions Ultimately everything's a number in a computer, so this is not something only in C. It's just C's low-level nature.

eru on Dec 17, 2008 [–]

Computers are so good at simulating numbers, they sometimes fool us into believing that they are made of the stuff.

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