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in reply to Re: How to burn 100 megabytes in one line and still get the wrong answer
in thread How to burn 100 megabytes in one line and still get the wrong answer

Urk. How to (try to) burn 4 gigabytes:
$number &= 0x0xFFFFFFFF;
Candidate for Most Lethal Typo award. Note: untested

Update: OK so I tested it and it doesn't compile. Award rescinded.