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xondono
on Aug 31, 2019
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Anna Karenina Principle
But all of them evaluate to true except for zero, thus one code for success, many for failure
cgriswald
on Aug 31, 2019
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That's idiomatic, not an inherent property of the numbers themselves. You're basically arguing that because we do it in one context we do it in another context, but it doesn't answer the question of why.
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