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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (3 children)

NaN is specifically not a number.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (3 children) 
> typeof NaN
"number"
[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Always has been

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why it's in the Evil row

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Unless it is Quantum Electro Dynamics.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

X can be a number.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

X is a letter.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

X is ten, as the Romans do

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

X is a dying website

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

X marks the spot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a version without the white lines?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here you go

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

But a vector is a number, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not really.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

klein bottle is a number

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

data: NaN

data: 1

NaN is 0