Calculator-as-a-service
When you break the subscription cost down into weekly payments, it seems very reasonable.
It costs less than a Stabucks coffee every 5 minutes.
I wouldn’t know. I can’t check.
The secret to selling the calculator subscription is to use the smallest possible time base for the quoted price since the potential clients can’t use the calculator to figure out the yearly cost of the subscription.
Adless addition is easily worth it
Yeah, but if you sign up for a year up front you get an additional 15 parentheses a month.
Addition = 1 mathgem.
Subtraction = 2 mathgems.
Multiplication = 3 mathgems.
Division = 5 math gems.
Square root = 10 mathgems.
100 math gems = £1.99.
1,000 math gems = £15.99.
10,000 math gems = £129.99. BEST VALUE
There’s a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult creatures like vampires and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the
fridgefringe edges of space. They’re like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It’s a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.the fridge edges of space
Somewhere near the borders of known space, shrouded by darkness and a two-week-old carton of milk, they lurk… the moldy leftovers!
What a bizarre idea. Thanks for the rec!
Gonna try to lay my hands on it, thanks, seems stupidly crazy and enjoyable
Awesome my library app has it, thanks! Sounds right up my alley!
That sounds amazing. I’ll give that a read, thanks mate
My library has it thanks!!
First time seeing them mentioned online, Charles Stross is great
I’d like to add the audiobooks are quite good for those who listen! They’re a very fun series (I’ve “only” been through the first 6, quite a few more after I checked.)
Yeah, I listened to them on audiobook myself. Also about 6 of them, give or take, oddly enough. I have been doing audiobooks a ton the last few years, as I rarely have time to just sit down and read. Perfect for when you’re doing menial tasks that aren’t mentally engaging. Doing dishes, driving, going grocery shopping… audiobook.
I’ve been on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series lately which is another great series that’s also weird as hell. Weirder even than the Laundry Files by far. A half naked protagonist fighting for his life with his girlfriend’s cat in tow, meth head llamas, and a dungeon-controlling AI with a thing for feet, just to name a few things from early in the first book. And the narrator for Carl sounds a lot like Patrick Warburton. Thoroughly recommend if that sounds like your kind of thing.
I’ll definitely give them a listen!
I also need to recommend, as you seem to be a brid of my feather, using audible and a kindle together to trade off between daytime story listening and nighttime reading in bed. I know Amazon is evil, and there are a lot of issues in particular with audible’s payment structure towards indie authors, but God damn do they offer a compelling service. I picked up a new-gen Paperwhite last prime day and my bedtime routine and travel bag has been irrepreably changed.
I’d love to hear more about what you’ve been listing to!
Edit: I didn’t make it clear above but Amazon will track your progress between the audiobook and the Kindle book and sync them.
I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
novel series called the Laundry Files
Thank you i’ll search that 👍
Happy to share. Hope you enjoy.
I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
It’s the teachers that said we wouldn’t always have calculators in our pockets getting revenge.
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It’s an old code but it checks out
5318008
iPad users be like
Now only included on Apple One.
You divided by zero didn’t you?
Pssh, I’ll divide by zero all day. You just need -infinity=infinity (think a number circle instead of a number line), and you’re good.
It’s 0/0 where the real crimes begin.
Yep. ∞ is infinitely big in the same way that 0 is infinitely small. -0 = 0 and -∞ = ∞. Opposite ends of the circle. (Or the Riemann sphere if you like complex numbers.)
While this Riemann sphere seems like a useful concept, -∞ = ∞ is an observation that doesn’t seem to hold true outside this spherical model of complex numbers. Just add ∞ to the both sides, and you end up with 0 = ∞ + ∞ which is most certainly not true.
0 = ∞ + ∞ which is most certainly not true.
This is only true if both infinite are the same, but one is negative. As a general statement you’re right, that this is not true.
Well - in the post I replied to there was explicit talk about +∞ and -∞, upon which I believe it is fair to say that ∞ is positive in this example.
Sure. And it also doesn’t help to avoid the problems with division by zero. But lucky we’re posting in the shitpost section, so we don’t have to worry too much about details.
Just add ∞ to the both sides
That’s why ∞ - ∞ is left undefined (same as 0/0 and ∞/∞)
adding ∞ to both sides does not create a ∞ - ∞ situation, though. The substraction is a whole different topic, because it becomes an elimination problem, whereas ∞ + ∞ = ∞
Silly Euclideans
Legend says he divided by zero
And he even found a value.
howls of discontent
Oops, all numbers are 0 now
I haz a value.
Tried to do the funny “58008” on the display didn’t you?
5318008
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There was 1 girl she was 16, she screwed 69 guys 3x. What’s that make her?
35007
The square root of 69 is 8 something
You probably did meth
I remember seeing a review for that game a while back. Didn’t know you could get banned from it.
I found the review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2sHere is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2s
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Homie tried to divide by zero.
Homie is chinese
Now I really want to know what this person did to get this.
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Huh, I was expecting my phone’s calculator to return i, but it just says it’s undefined. You’d think imaginary numbers should be supported, but I guess not. Maybe some phone calculators do, and some don’t?
Lol, the Android calculator says, “Keep it real”.
mine just says can’t divide by zero :(
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Wall hacks.
Yeah you can use all the fancy symbols you want but at the end of the day multivariate differential calculus is just addition and multiplication in a funny arrangement, you can’t stop me. L’Hopital taught me how to divide by zero and by god I will, damnit.
This is what smurfing will get ya
TEACH ME THE DARK EQUATIONS OF OLD
