POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Astonishment : Re: Astonishment Server Time
7 Sep 2024 15:24:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Astonishment  
From: Warp
Date: 14 Jul 2008 12:18:06
Message: <487b7c3e@news.povray.org>
Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> On that note I recall reading somewhere a suggestion that it's caused by  
> us thinking in binary - If A = Good then !A = Bad; such that if we've been  
> doing A a lot because we think it's good and it turns out not to be we  
> automatically turn to !A, because now that must be good :-)

  Actually we think in ternary. The third value is "I don't care", which
sometimes also causes problems when taken to an extreme.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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