Maths should be elegant.
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§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 7:02:09 am PST #9602 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 7:02:15 am PST #9603 of 10003
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Linux (or the KDE calculator) says not a number.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 7:04:05 am PST #9604 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bill Gates / Linus Torvalds 0^0 smackdown!
(although Linus has nothing to do with KDE.)
Jessica - Dec 13, 2005 7:06:03 am PST #9605 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What does the Mac OS X one say?
OX X says 1.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 7:06:51 am PST #9606 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Man, I'm nerdy.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
0 is like the submerged iceberg of the natural numbers. Most of the time you never even notice it, but then suddenly you trip over it, and it's all kinds of trouble.
But 0*0 = 0. That one we do know. It's 0/0 where we say, "No no no don't go there, that's the bad place!"
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 7:07:29 am PST #9607 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
And my TI-83+ says "ERR:DOMAIN" for 0^0, by the way.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 7:09:49 am PST #9608 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's something cool about how mathematicians can't even agree if 0^0 is undefined.
I mean, either it's defined or it's undefined. Except it's both.
Or neither.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2005 7:11:07 am PST #9609 of 10003
brillig
So I'm guessing that the symbol ^ means "to the power of"?
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 7:12:10 am PST #9610 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I'm guessing that the symbol ^ means "to the power of"?
Yes.
On computers, anyway.
I don't know how to do the zero superscript. &sup0;? eta: no.
Fred Pete - Dec 13, 2005 7:12:17 am PST #9611 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
So it's Schrodinger's exponential?