• Captain Aggravated
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    Ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall,

    Ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer,

    You take one down, pass it around,

    Ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall.

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      5 months ago

      Unfortunately the bar was built on long int so it overflowed 23 times and landed on about 1.2 billion.

      One billion, two-hundred fifteen million, seven-hundred fifty-two thousand, two-hundred-something bottles of beer on the wall, one billion, two-hundred fifteen million, seven-hundred fifty-two thousand, two-hundred-something bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around…

      One less bottle of beer on the wall :)

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        5 months ago

        I wonder what would happen if it was a singed long, and it landed somewhere in the negatives after overflowing multiple times?

        Negative forty-eight thousand, six hundred thirty-three bottles of beer on the wall,

        Negative forty-eight thousand, six hundred thirty-three bottles of beer

        You take one down, pass it around,

        Negative forty-eight thousand, six hundred thirty-four bottles of beer on the wall

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          Well, silly me, I should have specified that I did my calculation with signed long, though it shouldn’t affect the outcome much given my rounding at the hundreds.

          I like the idea of beer debt to the wall, though!

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            I once wrote a Python script that implemented this song, I could probably abuse that old program to make this nonsense happen.