Yes, no was correct. I'm sure it will get sorted out 😉

Interesting question. I knew about the rounding thing which helped. I did try to run the code but it failed due to me having a UK setup (as the question...

Thanks. Good to see questions about things that come up all the time 🙂

paul.knibbs (6/17/2011)

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The more of these questions I see, the more I think there are a significant fraction of respondents who are just clicking an answer at random...surely this isn't difficult...

Nice question made more interesting by the knowledge that "blob" is a slang word for condom in some parts of the UK. 😉

Sadly, people would rather have a moan than cut the question setter a little slack. We all know what he meant to write so why not use that knowledge to...

Don't worry - you get a bonus point for complaining about it in here 😉

toddasd (6/6/2011)

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[quote-0I think Michael Valentine nailed it with the "Skepticism in education" post. My friend asked me the same thing at lunch on Friday, "Can you give me 0.999... of...

No, however that is the only way you can represent 1/3 as a decimal.

Mathematically we've seen how this can be "proved". But using pure logic we're essentially saying that a number that is definitely less than 1 is the same as 1.

Or...

It's possible that 71% of answers are from people who aren't already...

Greg Edwards-268690 (5/31/2011)

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paul.knibbs (5/31/2011)

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Jeff Moden (5/29/2011)

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I...

Fairly easy two points today (one for getting the question right and another for telling everybody how easy you thought it was 😉 )

mohammed moinudheen (5/25/2011)

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I thought row level locks would be escalated to table locks only.

I referred the link provided in the answer, but couldn't find any information regarding escalation to partition....

I'm afraid I'm with your coworker. It's nothing to do with grammar but everything to do with manners. "What?" is pervceived as impolite and betrays a reluctance to enter into...