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alanh
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Data has weight but only on SSDs
10^–15 is not a negative number, just a small one.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10%5E-15+
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1718627440
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And it is less than one?
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JadeNB
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I think my favorite part of that comment is "documenting" that 10^(-15) is not negative by appealing to Wolfram Alpha.
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agentdrek
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your user name is found at the 4,922,096,564th digit of Pi
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stackghost
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Yes, you're correct. Now ask yourself if "one quadrillionth of an electron" is a quantity that's possible to have.
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ChrisClark
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Good thing he didn't say that
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