Cleverbot, is that you?

Don't let facts get in the way of your rant.

This latest case arose because of a man who arrived in the US like any normal person would. He was not flown under quarantine for treatment, he developed the disease already in the US.

Considering the record so far, it's far safer to fly people back to the US for treatment than to let them arrive on their own even if they show no signs of the disease. This allows us to reach a single conclusion and no other: that Dallas hospital has some explainin' to do.

If your advice had been followed, that man would still have died in the US, infecting this other person, and those who were successfully treated in the US may have died due to not having access to the same level of care.

She was not infected in Africa, she was infected in Spain.

Yeah, you shouldn't pull statistics out of your ass.

Yes, all points of sale are pieces of shit.

Noy unless it's running Windows XP embedded or PoS or Server 2003.

So, manually subtract a more accurate value of pi from the argument and pass that to fsin()? Sounds trivial enough for anyone really concerned about accuracy and speed.

RT isn't a particularly credible source. The general idea has been reported elsewhere, but there's no official explanation yet.

I certainly believe you should shift your right index finger approximately two centimeters to the left.

My God, that's a lame joke under most circumstances. Right now, it's borderline offensive.

Sign language is pretty damn close.

How about viruses? They're masses of DNA just coherent enough to wreak havoc without actually doing anything themselves.

If we gave dolphins lasers, we'd quickly have a rebellion on our hands.

I say we put on our figurative cowboy hats and literally lasso the nearest 2*10^29kg mass of mostly hydrogen we can find.

Multiplication is an easier process than division. Divison by 100 is trivial, so it doesn't impact the difficulty of the solution.

It's literally faster to multiply the distance by a small area (the 3.7 l/100km) and divide by 100 than to divide the distance by a larger value, when doing this kind of calculation mentally with approximate values. The point is even more valid for exact values (mental long division? No thanks.), but you'll be using a calculator for those.

What you're missing is that operations with powers of 10 are absolutely trivial and do not impact a problem in a meaningful way. That leaves us with multiplication vs. division - the former is much faster.