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[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 58 points 9 months ago

NaN is specifically not a number.

[-] technohacker@programming.dev 74 points 9 months ago
[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago

Always has been

[-] FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] Dieterlan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

That's why it's in the Evil row

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] TAVAR@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 months ago

Unless it is Quantum Electro Dynamics.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

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

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 9 months ago
[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

X is ten, as the Romans do

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago
[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Vulwsztyn@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Do you have a version without the white lines?

[-] kpw@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Speiser0@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

But a vector is a number, no?

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 months ago

Not really.

[-] sour@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago
[-] cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 1 points 9 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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