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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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    No love for the mad theorists huh? The mad philosophers, linguists, mathematicians, …

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      They are already mad. Have you met mathematicians?

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        I would also go mad if I had to accept that 83 is a prime number but 1 isn’t

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          Yeah, 1 is a very strange number, but have you heard of 0?

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            what i’m mad about is that you can divide by infinity and get zero, but you can’t divide by 0 and get infinity. make up your minds maths people

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              Oh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.

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                positive or negative nothing 💀 right

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                  i mean, implicitly it’s just whether you’re approaching zero from positive or negative direction, since we’re working with limits.

                  Like you can shave down a stick however much you want, you can never reach 0 stick by doing so.

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      Mad linguists are just prescriptivists.

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        well, not only. There’s also those that try to reconstruct the original language.

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