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• 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  NaN is specifically not a number.

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  • technohacker@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    > typeof NaN
    "number"
    

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    • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

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    • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, it’s something like the difference between { x: null } and { }>

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  • Dieterlan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why it’s in the Evil row

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    • Narrrz@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨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.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net ⁨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.

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨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

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  X can be a number.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    X is a letter.

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    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      X is ten, as the Romans do

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    • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Vulwsztyn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you have a version without the white lines?

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  • p1mrx@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s from reddit.com/…/what_is_a_number_alignment_chart/

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      boo

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here you go

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    • outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      numbers aren’t real dipshits, they’re just letters that want to be special

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• kpw@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Speiser0@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But a vector is a number, no?

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    • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨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 distributed 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.

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    • kpw@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really.

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• sour@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  klein bottle is a number

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  • cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  data: NaN

  data: 1

  NaN is 0

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