What is two + two?

Only (as an alternative) to another human. You've just proved the website isn't human.

In message , ARW writes

I certainly agree that, if the question is figures then so is the answer. Ditto if the question is words, so is the answer.

Too many web sites designed by arse holes with degrees but f*ck all common sense.

Don't ask whisky-dave, he'll come up with anything but 4 (four)! ;-)

I would say that the only time it would make a tangible difference to the answer / situation of using the numeral or the spelled version would be down to specific rules or expectations?

Like on a cheque, you would write the numerals in the box and write it out in full on the line as a means of a security checksum. Doing it the other way round would probably get the cheque rejected (even though you might be able to write a cheque out on plain paper)?

Also if there was a scenario that was using the numeric form then the required answer might need to reflect that, or if in more of a written form then to use the words?

If you want it to be very clear, you might write both, say on a legal document (where both versions have equal validity)?

If you were selling a car, I'm not sure you would write the cost out in words. If you were composing a receipt for the same you might use both forms (if it was a high enough value)?

In your particular case, it may just have been that the syntax checker was only looking for the numeric version, rather than it being 'wrong' as such, like telephone number dialogue boxes that consider a space as an additional and non valid number (or number of digits etc).

I was installing Raspbian (Debian Linux for the Raspberry Pi) the other day and a step offered a Y/n input, where I believe the upper case value reflects the default (should you just press Enter etc)? I can't remember normally having to bother actually using an upper case Y previously but in this case I did?

Cheers, T i m

Yes. Although they ought to have had the nous to program it to accept either. And perhaps, if they'd had real style, to accept also eleven (11) or ten (10) :)

No. its a type of car layout

Degrees in art history mainly.

Agree/Disagree? Irrelevant verbiage confirms that it is indeed T i m responding.

What are you drooling on about now, 'Dick'?

Oh dear ... you poor left brainer, confusing what you consider appropriate on a 'discussion group' to be anything other than your own biased and ignorant opinion and missing the fact that my reply covers as much as an answer as such a question could ever enjoy.

Cheers, T i m

Or that programmers are idiots. The "Falsehoods Programmers Believe..." series of web pages are worth a glance.

(Scroll down for the links to the actual lists of falsehoods. The gubbins at the top is just github nonsense.)

Spot on. Also known as "web designers".

I would say either is a satisfactory answer.

Or being programmers, they might take that to mean three and two respectively?

Aww bless, 'Dick' is trying to get his personal point across but again completely failing to understand there is often more to a question and it's answer than a black and white yes / no (however the question was polled).

I bet he voted in the EU referendum because he believed he had to, even if he didn't have a clue what his vote was actually going to turn out to represent. ;-(

He never will fully understand humans though, poor b*stard.

Poor, literal, binary Dicky. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

Many years (decades actually) ago I read in thesmall print that my bank wou ld still pay a cheque even if it had "technical irregularities". I asked w hat those were. The list included "words and numbers do not agree". I aske d in that case which do they pay. The said it was whichever the payee chos e.

Robert

Both sound the same here. The problem is that the capchars are, thank goodness being replaced with this kind of thing, but of course that depends very much on whether they assume a warped mind.

If a bot can solve a capchar then what is the point. Do they not have some kind of filter to spammers? Brian

I wonder why they often seem to be rejected because of such though?

Whilst that makes sense (payees request etc), how would they typically deal with it in practice, especially when paying in a cheque issued by someone else? Because I worked for 'The Post Office' I had a Girobank account so used to post cheque's off, getting them rejected (by post) if anything was irregular.

I also pondered if 'a cheque' had to be the official one as printed by a bank of if it would still serve it's purpose as long as it carried all the required information? After all, it's only really a transaction request with the authorisation validation being a signature? Cheers, T i m

Question If the sky is blue which of the following is true It is a sunny day It is daytime It is cloudy.

Erm. Its actually the first one.

The whole idea is to use the way a human parses the phrases as against the way machines do it. Sadly, i suppose that they have to keep coming up with new ones and as AI improves its a hiding to nothing anyway. You end up having to employ somebody to watch out for spammers. Brian