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Haha awesome Easter Egg - my friend just sent me this:

(6:54:08 PM) Michelle: it told me this: $1,000,000? Seriously? A whole lot of food. No, I won't compute that for you. That's too much. You'd become obese and you'd die. I don't want to feel the guilt for the rest of my life. I might be a webserver, but I'm not heartless. Unlike you after eating all that and suffering a stroke. Your little human body is not made for that. It's a no.

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1,000,000,000: Errr, a few franchises?

1,000,000,000,000: You could probably buy all of McDonalds stock for that kind of money.

Oh and apparently you can buy a Sundae for as little as $.999999999999999949.

> Oh and apparently you can buy a Sundae for as little as $.999999999999999949.

Damn, I was sure hackers here would test the edge cases, but I thought it would hold! :) What you describe look like a weird behaviour in Ruby's string parsing to int (if I remember my code correctly), but I'll look into it.

I wouldn't worry about it, it's just how Ruby and most other languages handle floats. Do a search on Google for "ruby float precision".

Well, for $99,999, you can get 5447 Medium Fries, 5422 Big Macs, 5367 Sundaes, 5320 Chicken Selects (3 Pc.), 5275 Filet-O-Fishes, 5272 Quarter Pounders with cheese, 5254 Medium beverages and 5234 McNuggets (10 Pc.). And you'll even have 54¢ left!

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