On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 11:45, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 26/01/23 6:10 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > > And that's a consequence of a system wherein there is only one concept > > of "success", but many concepts of "failure". Whoever devised that > > system was clearly a pessimist :) > > Murphy's Law for Unix: If something can go wrong, it will go > wrong 255 times out of 256. >
Murphy's Law for people working with small integers: "255 out of 256" will, just when you least expect it, change into "255 out of 0". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
