Far too much working out there for such a simple problem.
My German lecturer would hate you.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:26, archived)

Then your German lecturer is a cock.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:28, archived)

To be fair, he did teach us computer programming.
And for something that was supposed to take 10 lines I used 5 pages.

He then taught me Classical mechanics and I got 90% in his exam, so we're best buds now.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:29, archived)

You were taught computer programming by somebody who thought brevity was more important than clarity?
He really must be a cock. I can see why you're buddies.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:31, archived)

Trust me, it was much clearer his way too.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:32, archived)

Utter bollocks.
He's a cock. You're a cock. Cocks of a feather.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:34, archived)

:( why do I cry everytime someone is mean to me :(

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:37, archived)

I'm blaming YOU for all the programme bloat that's affecting us all in these modern times of cheap storage
and cheap processing power. I'm disgusted.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:35, archived)

No offence, great, brill, good times, etc.

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:37, archived)

Programme bloat my cock.
If it's bloated then hand assemble it or use a compiler that isn't shit. I was an embedded programmer for ten years ... I could squeeze a perl description of your mum's labia minora into less than a kilobyte.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:37, archived)

But could you squeeze MoT into 10 lines?

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:40, archived)

Only if they're the lines of a rusty grid covering an ancient victorian sewer.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:44, archived)

on the other hand,
my maths teacher would burst into tears of gratitude that his repeated mantra of "always show your working" had sunk in. Apparently for all of the maths GCSE questions there were four points available, and you could pick up one or two of them even if your final answer was wrong, if you had demonstrated your working-out correctly and the only problem was that you'd accidentally transposed two digits, or made an arithmetical error that was so simple you hadn't realised.
( Batsgirl, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:38, archived)

Yeah but that's GCSE maths,
where the main focus of the course is to show you understand how to do it, the final result is important but not massively so.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 17 May 2009, 11:40, archived)