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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sometimes it helps solve an equation by adding zero.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This, this shit is why I would never have made a mathematician.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You say that but every time you make a void function that takes no arguments all the mathmaticians in a 12 mile radius combust.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's why in python you should never write 0 when False is clearly the superior choice.

[1, 2, 4, 5][False]

1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That not even the best

[1,2,3,4,5][-True]

>>> 5

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about solving 0/0 formulas in calculus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you talking about L'Hôpital's rule? Or something else I'm not aware of?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep that one. Funny, my courses were in french and we wrote it hospital rule while you just went ahead with the full french word, accent and all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

my funding = 0
= -100M + 100M
= (the money I'll never made back to the investors) + (the shit I'll blow on AC and top gaming computers and stuff)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

you're joking but the world's economy at large actually works that way

company borrows 1M in the first year, next year instead of paying back, it borrows 2M ...

kinda "Hilbert's hotel". instead of running out of money, shift everything into more debt and continue ...