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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gandalf's large positive integers

Like that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow. Do we have a lemmy community for that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

be the change you want to see!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I googled "Big Naturals". Result number 16 was this:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Should've been number 1.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

This actually got a chuckle out of me. Prob the first number related joke I've laughed at.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

big badonka-donkadonks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Why, would anyone at all think about something else?

/s

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Actually, those are not the same. Natural numbers include zero, positive integers do not. She shoud definately use 'big naturals'.

Edit: although you could argue that it doesnt matter as 0 is arguably neither big nor large

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Natural numbers only include zero if you define it so in the beginning of your book/paper/whatever. Otherwise it's ambiguous and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Natural numbers include zero

That is a divisive opinion and not actually a fact

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Big naturals in fact include two zeroes:

(o ) ( o)

Spaces and parens added for clarity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

When enclosed in parentheses I believe the correct term is "bolt-ons"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(0 ) ( 0)
You can't fool me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

(o Y o) solve for Y

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Depends on how you draw it.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

Also in an aqueous environment, they become floating point values.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Large nonnegative numbers*

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they're big the zero is skipped anyway

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Just write it bigger.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Big Naturals Are More Pronounced

ftfy

[–] usualsuspect191 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't care if they're big, as long as they're real

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

I don't care if they're real, as long as I can manipulate them

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't get me started on the unnatural and supernatural numbers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sound made up, like imaginary numbers.

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

I mean all numbers are made up when you think about it.

Also unrelated but natural numbers are closed under multiplication (by pure coincidence) while imaginary numbers are not.

This means natural numbers make worse examples when learning about sets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Made me think of how everything is base 10, even octal or binary.

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

That's true OP, "big naturals" are indeed very pronounced.

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

I like naturals, but more than a mouthful is kind of a waste. ;-)

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