Ah, don't sound so sad Debbie will be there, Leyla, Craig Powers and perhaps you-know-who???? See your email I copied to you and D. Did you miss him then?:rofl:
It was just meant to be ...deep. And to help you with another 7 posts to become a space cadet before you see Nick!
Assuming we can count your posts as all part of a set of posts, would you think that then infinity you are approaching would be a asaṃkhyāta ("countless, innumerable") or ananta ("endless, unlimited")? I suppose this is dependant upon the limit of the integer set that Paul has designed to count the post numbers. The IEEE floating-point standard usually would specify positive and negative infinity values but these can be the result of arithmetic overflow, division by zero, or other exceptional operations. Some programming languages (for example, J and UNITY) specify greatest and least elements, i.e. values that compare (respectively) greater than or less than all other values. These may also be termed top and bottom, or plus infinity and minus infinity; they are useful as sentinel values in algorithms involving sorting, searching or windowing. In languages that do not have greatest and least elements, but do allow overloading of relational operators, it is possible to create greatest and least elements (with some overhead, and the risk of incompatibility between implementations). So Paul, how many posts are we allowed before we have to create a new login (or you have to buy a new server!)?
Post counts are stored in an unsigned integer per user, with up to 10 digits. This means that the number of posts can range from 0 to 9999999999. Based on an average of 10 posts per day, according to my calculations it will take 2739726 years for Ms PR to exhaust the available numbers. Should this situation ever arise I will probably take the easy option and just reset her post count to zero again.
What a load of codswallop!! WITHOUT PREJUDICE I think the whole system of judging people's contributions to decide their username hierarchal echelon status nomenclaturely should be replaced with a more judicious & fair grading ascendancy to aspire to. The present system is whimsically decided by some remote arbitary judge/fairy on his pedestal valuing quantity of posts [the more inane/mundane the better] and not the quality of the postings. This is blatantly unfair and not because I am now 'a real loony on a bus' with sour grapes, but it encourages a dilution of input with no respect to quality control and suchlike. In addition, the 'sweetener' if you transmit a donation, in offering cool options of a bank of solicitous phrases like 'silk pyjamas cruising in the Bahamas' renders the whole Richter Scale of tectonicity senseless and open to blatant corruption. I rest my case... andisean
How fickly flirtingly flippingly fun funny! "She chuckled, I smiled..." Maybe if I reach 150 posts now I'll be promoted to something more conducively thematically endemically relevant to my obvious intelligence which shines out of me and my corruscating posts? Or donate a 5p used postage stamp as a donation to upgrade my status through bribery? aw:w00t:
or .... no that wouldnt work, what about ..... nah too far fetched ..... ah i know ..... nope think that is illegal in most parts of europe, i know, live up to it!! if i could i would, but i cant, coz captain kirk and i fell out, he is a joint hog ya know??? hw :cheers2:
I think we should organise a "Harpic Tour Bus" next year! However this is a tour bus with a difference! This is for the fanatic fans like me, Paula, Linn...etc Then we can go to every gig and drink! Yay! (of course Nick could have a space too, but only if he asks *reeealllllly* nicely! :biggrin:
