We have NAN to represent numbers that aren't. The hardware should have NAP (or NAR if they must) to represent a Pointer or Reference that is intentionally not dereferencable. The difference between this and a zero pointer would be well defined results when you 1) dereferenced, or 2) indexed based on the pointer.

You may deposit my share of the billion of dollars saved by this idea in my Paypal account.

I'm still waiting for a computer to convince me it's as smart as a parrot.

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When my AT&T line goes down (which it does far too often given that the lines are underground) I get a credit on my next bill for the time form my trouble call until service is restored. Don't they do the same thing for cell phones? [Asked as a long-time Sprint customer. I don't know Sprint's policy -- on the other hand they've never been down [that I knew of anyway]]

> If they look ahead and start to accelerate earlier this will cause a similar improvement
> in reduction of traffic impediment.

Which will be negated when they plow into the back end of the guy in front of them who didn't accelerate earlier.
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