'Out Of Gas'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
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!"
And my TI-83+ says "ERR:DOMAIN" for 0^0, by the way.
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.
So I'm guessing that the symbol ^ means "to the power of"?
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.
So it's Schrodinger's exponential?
So it's Schrodinger's exponential?
Yes.
See, I knew that cat^0 was relevant!
What does * stand for in math?
I mean, either it's defined or it's undefined. Except it's both.
It's the Schrodinger's number?
eta: Inevitable Schrodinger's crosspost
What does * stand for in math?
Multiplication. I think it's because of computers, because "x" was also the letter and confusing.
But I don't know the timing for sure.