Timeline for How low can my Ping go?
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| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:59 | comment | added | Irregular User | @DCShannon Sorry to have made your good intentions seemingly go in vain! | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:59 | comment | added | Lord Harkon | True, but maybe I could beat the game before I started playing. I just need to build a computer out of tachyons. I’ll let you know when I’m done... which might be sometime before I start working on it. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:57 | comment | added | DCShannon | @amaranth If your ping is negative, then the response arrives before the request. I'm pretty sure that would result in noticeable glitches. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:51 | comment | added | Lord Harkon | After reading all those comments... theoretically, if you’re traveling faster than the speed of light, maybe your ping could be negative or an imaginary number. We’d have to ask at physics.SE... | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:51 | comment | added | Irregular User | I am indeed happier with the edit. It's just that you went out of your way to link the wiki page to what a real number is and hence assume that the reader doesn't know what it is, yet assumed that they know it won't be negative. It seems best to just make a technically correct post and do away with the assumptions. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:47 | history | edited | DCShannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
one user was rather confused by the original wording
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| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:41 | comment | added | Irregular User | "This would still be non-zero, and would be a real number of seconds". Real numbers include negative numbers. My point is that the part in quotes could be replaced with "This would still be positive" for example. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:38 | comment | added | Irregular User | Of course and I took this into account before commenting. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 0:34 | comment | added | Irregular User | Did you perhaps mean a positive number of seconds instead? Ping can't be negative. It also means that you don't need to mention non-zero. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 23:52 | history | answered | DCShannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |