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:If you drop the rest of the division you're right most of the time. Although, I maintain there are counter examples, like, the 31 december of 1970 at 11pm : since 1970 was a leap year, at that time, about 365.95 days had ellapsed since unix epoch, and the integer division would result in year +1, while it's still year 0. The problem becomes more serious if you use the rest of the division to continue calculation, which will provide an error in 75% of cases. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.129|108.162.229.129]] 11:07, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | :If you drop the rest of the division you're right most of the time. Although, I maintain there are counter examples, like, the 31 december of 1970 at 11pm : since 1970 was a leap year, at that time, about 365.95 days had ellapsed since unix epoch, and the integer division would result in year +1, while it's still year 0. The problem becomes more serious if you use the rest of the division to continue calculation, which will provide an error in 75% of cases. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.129|108.162.229.129]] 11:07, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
::Huh? 1970 wasn't a leap year - the next leap year from there was 1972. [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 20:12, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | ::Huh? 1970 wasn't a leap year - the next leap year from there was 1972. [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 20:12, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
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Also in Trivia, there's a bullet that reads "The 364th day of a non-leap year is December 31[...]", this is only true if January 1 is the 0th day of the year, which is mathematically correct and confusing to non-programming humans. It should read 'The 365th day[...]' or '[...]which translates to the 365th day[...]'.{{unsigned ip|108.162.241.11}} | Also in Trivia, there's a bullet that reads "The 364th day of a non-leap year is December 31[...]", this is only true if January 1 is the 0th day of the year, which is mathematically correct and confusing to non-programming humans. It should read 'The 365th day[...]' or '[...]which translates to the 365th day[...]'.{{unsigned ip|108.162.241.11}} | ||
:This is the problem with math: Basic mathematics is zero-based - counting upward from the beginning of anything, you only arrive at 1 when you've reached your first complete unit. You can refer to "the first half-foot", but the measurement would be 0.5 feet, or less than 1. Similarly, while you're at any point before midnight on January 2nd, you're less than 1 day into the year, and the current amount of time having passed since the start of the year is 0.x days. We don't have to be programmers to get this, and considering it's a comic for science, math and computer geeks (primarily), I think we SHOULD expect our audience to get at least SOME of this. [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 02:24, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | :This is the problem with math: Basic mathematics is zero-based - counting upward from the beginning of anything, you only arrive at 1 when you've reached your first complete unit. You can refer to "the first half-foot", but the measurement would be 0.5 feet, or less than 1. Similarly, while you're at any point before midnight on January 2nd, you're less than 1 day into the year, and the current amount of time having passed since the start of the year is 0.x days. We don't have to be programmers to get this, and considering it's a comic for science, math and computer geeks (primarily), I think we SHOULD expect our audience to get at least SOME of this. [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 02:24, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
::That said, I went ahead and changed it to "365th day", given the description of the calculation already mentions that 364 days have elapsed since the start of the year. That should bridge the gap. (I made that distinction a little clearer as well.) [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 02:30, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | ::That said, I went ahead and changed it to "365th day", given the description of the calculation already mentions that 364 days have elapsed since the start of the year. That should bridge the gap. (I made that distinction a little clearer as well.) [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 02:30, 2 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
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