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		Retr0id on Dec 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4B If Statements I think Scarblac's point is that using a > comparison would be cheating, and you'd have to do that as a series of 4 billion if/else statements too.

sltkr on Dec 28, 2023 [–]

Fair enough, comparisons are dangerously close to arithmetic and we can't have any of that.

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