pedanterrific comments on Apply your knowledge: pick half a number - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 05 October 2011 02:42:26AM 8 points [-]

Interestingly, you seem to be able to vote for arbitrarily high numbers or arbitrarily small ones and get the same response as a real vote. I tested, and lets just say that unless they've got more than 100,000 voters, the correct number may end up being well above 100 from that vote alone.

Hope they don't take that seriously, or else the correct number is now essentially 3↑↑↑3, as that's what I voted for.

Comment author: Desrtopa 05 October 2011 03:51:05PM 3 points [-]

I doubt that it parsed it correctly, their database probably can't store the number 3↑↑↑3 represents the way it stores other numbers.