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[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sometimes it helps solve an equation by adding zero.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This, this shit is why I would never have made a mathematician.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You say that but every time you make a void function that takes no arguments all the mathmaticians in a 12 mile radius combust.

[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why in python you should never write 0 when False is clearly the superior choice.

[1, 2, 4, 5][False]

1

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That not even the best

[1,2,3,4,5][-True]

>>> 5

[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about solving 0/0 formulas in calculus.

[–] spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you talking about L'Hôpital's rule? Or something else I'm not aware of?

[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep that one. Funny, my courses were in french and we wrote it hospital rule while you just went ahead with the full french word, accent and all.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

my funding = 0
= -100M + 100M = (the money I'll never made back to the investors) + (the shit I'll blow on AC and top gaming computers and stuff)

you're joking but the world's economy at large actually works that way

company borrows 1M in the first year, next year instead of paying back, it borrows 2M ...

kinda "Hilbert's hotel". instead of running out of money, shift everything into more debt and continue ...