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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

NaN is specifically not a number.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Iron_Lynx 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Always has been

[–] FlickOfTheBean 3 points 1 year ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

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

[–] Dieterlan 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why it's in the Evil row

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

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TootSweet 20 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TheSpookiestUser 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X is ten, as the Romans do

[–] Jackcooper 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] vonxylofon 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Jerkface 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Vulwsztyn 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a version without the white lines?

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But a vector is a number, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Not really.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] cryptosporidium140 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

data: NaN

data: 1

NaN is 0