I think the difference is that at a stunt show you know that there is a possibility of injury . At a magic show , that ' s usually not what you signed up for . <| sep |> There is no racist subtext . You just see it because you are looking for it . <| sep |> I don ' t remember writing this . <| sep |> What ya want for ? <| sep |> I knew a girl in high school who was convinced that when a guy lost his virginity his frenulum snapped . No matter how much I told her that wasn ' t true she wouldn ' t believe me . My horror is mounting again that she ' s a serial frenulum snapper . <| sep |> Since this article is about some seriously small microoptimisations , what ' s the performance difference between truncating small numbers with the single pipe vs Math . trunc ? If you can reasonably expect a number to stay within the small range , is it worth using Math . trunc even with the overhead of a function call ?