Ishmal

So i got an e-mail 2day...

now i'll let you do it on you computer to see if you get the same results...

but i'm curious now...

could anyone explain (in simple terms) why this happens...


edit: if any1 thinks this isn't the forum for a thing like this, feel free to more it to Nonsense or some such

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soccerchamp76

Weird.....

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filtherton

The sentence contains every letter of the alphabet plus a few repeats.

Ishmal

yer i'm aware of that...

but i was hoping for some speculation as to why Microsoft has that little code for the sentence...

i thought it was kinda strange!

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MrFlux

it's just =rand(x,y)

Where x is the number of line you want to print and y is the number of times it repeats per line. Why they included a function to make that I have no idea.

Edit: although 200,99 is as high as it goes

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bendsley

It's also probably something like an Easter Egg in the software.


You can find a lot of these for computers, movies, and tv over at http://eeggs.com/

As for your quote saying "not even Microsoft can explain that one". I can assure you that is totally false. They know every byte of their source code.

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vanblah

Some programmer felt the need to leave a signature. There's nothing conspiratorial about it.

Ishmal

i thought that'd b the case...

but i included that line just so every1 could see the whole e-mail i recived...

thanx every1 for your quick responses, and for that link bendsley...

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catback

Microsoft as a whole knows every line of code in their software but if you asked someone they wouldn't know what every line does. The reps that you'd ask about it likely don't know any thing about the code, the programmers likely don't know all the code, but if you sat everyone down together and got them to be truthful they could answer any question about the product.