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[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 58 points 11 months ago

NaN is specifically not a number.

[-] technohacker@programming.dev 74 points 11 months ago
[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

Always has been

[-] FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That is a valid point. Also, I learned something about JavaScript. Thank you!

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, it's something like the difference between { x: null } and { }.

[-] Dieterlan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That's why it's in the Evil row

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Well, at least it is used in place of a number. But what about QED.?

[-] TAVAR@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

NaN makes for a better Chaotic Evil, QED could just as well be Neutral Evil.

However QED always stands in the bottom right corner, I guess that makes the author of this chart lawfully evil

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Unless it is Quantum Electro Dynamics.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Pythagoras: Everything that exists is a number. Except irrational numbers. Fuck those things.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

I've taken like four or five advanced trigonometry courses and I still can't really define what trigonometry is. Mathematics is like Andrew Tate's Hustler University scam. If you take one class, it only exists to prove that you're a mark and sell you more classes.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

Trig is basically the study of a wiggly line and how it turns out to be useful everywhere

[-] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

I enjoyed the trigonometry unit in my highschool geometry class, but that's because it was mostly proofs, and those were just philosophy about triangles.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I have a masters in math and I have no fucking idea what a second course in "advanced trigonometry" looks like much less a fifth

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 15 points 11 months ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 11 months ago
[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

X is ten, as the Romans do

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago
[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Let x be any number. => x is a number. QED.

[-] Vulwsztyn@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Do you have a version without the white lines?

[-] kpw@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

If you change "number" to "vector" you'd have mathematicians agreeing with half of those.

[-] Speiser0@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

But a vector is a number, no?

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A vector is a thing that can be added together and scaled in "the intuitive way." That is, for example, if a and b are numbers and v is a vector, then av + bv = (a+b)v (vector addition distributes over scalar multiplication). The prototypical example is the collection of arrows rooted at the origin on the 2D plane, where addition has a simple geometric interpretation (you put the tail of one vector at the tip of another, the resulting point is the new tip) and scaling is "stretching." But it really could be anything that adds and scales.

[-] kpw@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Not really.

[-] sour@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago
[-] cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's true, my great grandma just turned klein bottle years old

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NaN is 0

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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