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What do we call ourselves? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently I wanted to refer to the general populace of the divisions by zero, but it occurred to me we don't have a good shorthand for it,. I.e. like one talks about "lemmings" or "redditors". We could use something for members of lemmy.dbzer0.com.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value NaN, which stands for "Not a number".

So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.

Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"

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

that would be so fucking rad

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