You thought you'd seen & read it all?

coultog

So, do you think I can post my way out of this issue?

Moglex

coultog wrote:

So, do you think I can post my way out of this issue?

For some reason, the system does not seem to be updating your post count as it's still 4,294,967,295 which is the as when it was first mentioned.

So it looks as if you are stuck for the time being.

It's possible that the site administrator could intervene to correct the issue.

codger

coultog wrote:

With such lovely people, how could it have been anything other than perfect.

I now realise why I've not been sleeping too well

Yup, and I now realise why it's been impossible to get onto this board in recent months. . .:j

greeneye

Moglex wrote:

The number of posts that coultog is alleged to have made is precisely one less than the largest positive integer that can be held in a 32 bit word (the size that computers tend to use by default nowadays). The binary pattern that represents that number also represents a negative number: -1. It almost certainly got to be that way because because the software has messed up the post count when deleting a few threads and has decremented the count too far whilst treating the underlying word as a signed (capable of representing both a +ve and -ve number) number, making it negative.

Then the software that represents the number in human readable format has treated the 32 bit quantity as a +ve only integer and, voila! there's your high post count.

Of course, it's a bit more complicated than that but I hope that explains it in an easy to understand manner.

Bet your fun at a dinner party Moglex.... Only kidding M8 well explained.

astonsmummy

greeneye wrote:

Bet your fun at a dinner party Moglex.... Only kidding M8 well explained.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: (sorry:o )

codger

Moglex: brilliant, quite brilliant. :T

Didn't understand a word of it but I took awhile to stop being nervous of a computer's byte: I used to sit well away from its teeth with the keyboard connected by a very long lead.

So anyway. I'm incredibly impressed, let's have more. Seriously. What about the Theory of Relativity??? :A

lynnemcf

coultog wrote:

So, do you think I can post my way out of this issue?

Only if you charge £10.99 p&p for a 99p item.

PINGA14

The thread on ebay that didn't exist now really doesn't exist. They've deleted it.

Moglex

codger wrote:

So anyway. I'm incredibly impressed, let's have more. Seriously. What about the Theory of Relativity??? :A

Well, I can if you like, but it's a bit off topic and people's eyes tend to glaze over after a while (read: few milliseconds).

Dunno why, special relativity is a very easy concept.

General relativity, on the other had - well, the sums are a bit 'ard!

eyelinerprincess

Seller is still there though...