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Humanities be like (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (3 children)

NaN is specifically not a number.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (3 children) 
> typeof NaN
"number"
[–] Iron_Lynx 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Always has been

[–] FlickOfTheBean 3 points 11 months ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] Dieterlan 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's why it's in the Evil row

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] TootSweet 20 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

X can be a number.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

X is a letter.

[–] TheSpookiestUser 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

X is ten, as the Romans do

[–] Jackcooper 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

X is a dying website

[–] vonxylofon 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

X marks the spot.

[–] Jerkface 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Vulwsztyn 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a version without the white lines?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here you go

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But a vector is a number, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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 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 11 months ago

Not really.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

klein bottle is a number

[–] cryptosporidium140 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

data: NaN

data: 1

NaN is 0