Or from linux/kernel/time/timeconv.c :
static int __isleap(long year)
{
return (year) % 4 == 0 && ((year) % 100 != 0 || (year) % 400 == 0);
}
I think it was originally implemented as a #define. Hence the remaining parenthesis around 'year'?

My first thought was: "Hmm. A discovery about Poland's Prime Numbers? What's the definition of a Poland's Prime anyway?". Ok. Time for the first coffee of the day, I guess.

Griffin? Is that you?

Sorry to be picky on that one, but this is not a alt attribute. This is a title attribute and this is precisely why you should indeed see it with a proper browser, while you should not see the content of "alt" (which happens to be "Purity" in this example) if the image is rendered.

Hey! I think there's also a joke somewhere about the bag being perforated, bringing a new sense to a "system overflow" but I can't quite work it out either...

Maybe we could create a group on Facebook and have fun with our not-quite-working-slashdot-jokes?

1. Set up a website with a 5.45 MB background image
2. Submit it on Slashdot
3. You're done

While this is an interesting example, I don't have any doubt that there are plenty of other things that you would like to store than just video. And many of them may require *much* more storage capacity.

Let's take just one example: chess. As far as I know, most endgame databases currently in use are up to 5 or maybe 6 pieces remaining on the board. A 6-men endgame database is about 1TB. And as you increase the number of pieces, the size of the database grows very fast.

I don't event talk about storing all possible chess positions ... But here's a quote from this article, including some new numbers for you to play with:

"Allis also estimated the game-tree complexity to be at least 10^123, "based on an average branching factor of 35 and an average game length of 80". As a comparison, the number of atoms in the Universe, to which it is often compared, is estimated to be between 4x10^79 and 10^81."