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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish169•edit-24 months agoWhat about plain old x = -10? -10 ^ 2 = 100 -10 ^ 3 = -1000 -10 ^ 5 = -100000
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•4 months agopeople being pedantic showoffs doesn’t really register as humor for me, TBH
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•4 months agoThat’s true, the OOP is being quite snarky with their comment on a post where someone’s had a genuine basic doubt
What about plain old
x = -10?-10 ^ 2 = 100
-10 ^ 3 = -1000
-10 ^ 5 = -100000
Isn’t that the joke?
That’s what he wrote, I imagine.
It is, but with imaginary numbets
numbet
numberwang
i² = -1 so…
10 * i^2 is -10.
Nothing gets past you eh?
people being pedantic showoffs doesn’t really register as humor for me, TBH
That’s true, the OOP is being quite snarky with their comment on a post where someone’s had a genuine basic doubt
That was my immediate thought too.
Boooooring