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Question What is the difference between "accurate" information in a document and "believable" information?
As part of some research I am doing on measuring documentation quality, I have come across the terms "accurate" and "believable" as two separate dimensions of information quality. But the differences between them are not clear at all to me: they define accurate as "correct, reliable, and certified f...
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almost 7 years ago
Question Alternatives better to the binary "0b..." format?
In our documentation, we write binary numbers like this: 1010 But we write hexadecimal numbers like this: 0xABAB Now, according to the GCC compiler conventions: - Numbers are normally written in decimal. - Binary numbers are preceded by 0b. - Hexadecimal numbers are preceded by 0x. But in my mi...
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almost 7 years ago
Question Terminology question - "if-else" or "if/else"?
Are they "if-else statements" or are they "if/else statements"? I'm partial to the latter, but I can see the logic of the former - both "if" and "else" are acting as a unit modifier for the noun "statements" (and so a hyphen is appropriate), whereas a slash (usually) indicates an "or" condition. Thou...
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almost 7 years ago