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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your meme doesn't work in the age of floating point numbers.

Suggestion: "1.0/x for x>0→0.0 goes against infinity, so 1.0/0.0 is infinity."

[–] niktemadur 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[TREE(TREE)] ↑↑↑ (Busy Beaver)

[–] Blyfh 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any sufficiently large number is indistinguishable from infinity.

Wait. Something's wrong...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O(n^m^) = O(1) for all n,m < infinity.

[–] Blyfh 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You messed up your formatting there buddy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's maths there's no syntax rules only rough guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Floats are actually fairly limited in what they can do and you lose a lot of accuracy at some point