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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

NaN is specifically not a number.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Always has been

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is a valid point. Also, I learned something about JavaScript. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, it's something like the difference between { x: null } and { }.

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

That's why it's in the Evil row

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

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

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

Well, at least it is used in place of a number. But what about QED.?

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

NaN makes for a better Chaotic Evil, QED could just as well be Neutral Evil.

However QED always stands in the bottom right corner, I guess that makes the author of this chart lawfully evil

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

Unless it is Quantum Electro Dynamics.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Pythagoras: Everything that exists is a number. Except irrational numbers. Fuck those things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

X is ten, as the Romans do

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Let x be any number. => x is a number. QED.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have a version without the white lines?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

numbers aren’t real dipshits, they’re just letters that want to be special

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you change "number" to "vector" you'd have mathematicians agreeing with half of those.

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

But a vector is a number, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A vector is a thing that can be added together and scaled in "the intuitive way." That is, for example, if a and b are numbers and v is a vector, then av + bv = (a+b)v (vector addition distributes over scalar multiplication). The prototypical example is the collection of arrows rooted at the origin on the 2D plane, where addition has a simple geometric interpretation (you put the tail of one vector at the tip of another, the resulting point is the new tip) and scaling is "stretching." But it really could be anything that adds and scales.

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

Not really.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's true, my great grandma just turned klein bottle years old

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

data: NaN

data: 1

NaN is 0