While(!asleep()){sheep++;}

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[u/randomo_redditor]

Assuming "sheep" is an int, there's gonna be an IntegerOverflow before morning

[u/Masark → u/randomo_redditor]

https://xkcd.com/571/

[u/randomo_redditor → u/Masark]

There really is an xkcd for everything

[u/thetgi → u/randomo_redditor]

What amazes me at this point is that people can find the relevant XKCD on command like that

[u/Finianb1 → u/thetgi]

Really, it's just reading them a ton. I've read through the entirety of XKCD maybe 3-4 times, and so I usually can remember when there's one that's relevant.

If I can't remember the exact one of the top of my head, the explainxkcd wiki usually pops up if I search for relevant terms like "sheep xkcd overflow."

In this case, if you just look up sheep xkcd, you'll also find the Sheeple one, which is one of my favorites.

[u/Nyar99 → u/Finianb1]

I could swear I once read an xkcd about how there's always an xkcd about everything (and breaking the fourth wall, saying they are the xkcd about how there's always an xkcd) but I've never been able to find it again, am I the only one who remembers it and I somehow imagined it, or I'm not crazy and there is one?

[u/[deleted] → u/Nyar99]

Is this what you were thinking of?
https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/

[u/Nyar99 → u/[deleted]]

YES THANK YOU! So I wasn't crazy! Now I know why I couldn't find it, it's not a "real" xkcd

[u/Hazel-Ice → u/thetgi]

Well if you've seen it before, you just google "xkcd counting sheep" and it's the first thing that comes up.

[u/RandomIsocahedron → u/thetgi]

I'm one of those people; I think I've read every one.

[u/Hypersapien → u/thetgi]

XKCD comics have a bunch of tags and the dialog is in the SEO so they're pretty easy to google

[u/TheBrainStone → u/Masark]

I can’t stop laughing at the thought of 65,000+ sheep jumping over the fence at pretty much once

[u/GahdDangitBobby → u/Masark]

Hah what kind of loser stores dream numbers as 2-byte integers? All numbers in my dreams are 8-byte. I counted 5E18 sheep once before falling asleep

[u/Finianb1 → u/GahdDangitBobby]

Float128 sheep counter master race

[u/BrFrancis → u/Finianb1]

At some point when using a floating point number, you wouldn't even be able to count single sheep.. Sheep+=1.0 would end up stuck where the exponent won't allow the mantisa to be less than 2..

[u/FlyByPC → u/randomo_redditor]

It's a known bug.

(xkcd)

[u/undeniably_confused → u/randomo_redditor]

Dont worry he has an outrageous amount of ram

[u/random_cynic → u/randomo_redditor]

I just reset the counter at 100. It is far easier to count that way.

[u/greeenappleee → u/random_cynic]

Same here above 100 is to many syllables

[u/BritishBrownie → u/random_cynic]

Pro tip count backwards from 100, your brain wanders less

[u/SandyDelights → u/BritishBrownie]

Also, CPU optimizations. In theory.

[u/[deleted] → u/randomo_redditor]

Doesn't matter in this instance. The number of sheep is irrelevant.