True, that's faster than in a loop.

On a more serious note, i think the first program of consequence i ever made was a Triangle solver.  It could solve for ASA SAS SSS and ASS

My math teacher calls that triangle "The Donkey One" or "SSA".  Nice prog though.  My first good prog was a slope finder.  You could give it any four of X1, X2, Y1, Y2, and M and it would give you the last one.  It's 828 bytes and still on many peoples' calcs at my school.

Next step, a first person shooter ^^

With the old respect system, I had the ability to instantly raise mine to 65536 or lock it up to zero

yeah but then it would increase back

Idk, since "Respect" is now the combination of all positive and negative ratings received on every post you made, the only way to know would be to go back through your old posts then view them in topic mode to view the rating (top right corner of every post, kinda like on TI-BANK except it's a digit like on Youtube, not a red/green bar like on TI-BANK).

Allynfolksjr dropped to -19 I think

Actually -2 right now. Nothing to worry about much really. if a post sounded provocative/narrow minded that sometimes happens and if you be careful it will most likely go up again soon, especially if you post a project update.

Since there are so many posts being done in one day on the forums, people tend to forget about the rating system, though.

hmm i only rate post that are 
A.) extremely good/bad (you get the idea behind that)

B.) are updates with good news or interesting news


other than that i do forget about it X.x

Basically, I rate a post on the following conditions:

a) Presents an interesting and elaborated point in a discussion
b) Contains a freakin' awesome piece of code/program demo
c) the post makes me laugh
And negative:
d) The post is rude/unrelated