Dalvoron

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have thumbnails set on my phone so I only ever saw the full image. That said, I looked at it without my glasses with my arm outstretched and I'm going to guess they saw either buttcrack or titcleft

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This particular flavour of survivorship bias is also called the anthropic principle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

In Ireland it's Éire, while Iceland is An Íoslainn, so it doesn't really work 😕

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

If we know the values of ln(-1)¹⁰ and pi¹⁰ we hypothetically could calculate their divided result as -1 instead of using strict logic, but it is missing a few steps. Moreover logs of negative numbers just end up with an imaginary component anyway so there isn't really any progress to be made on that front. Typing ln(-1)¹⁰ into my scientific calculator just yields i¹⁰pi¹⁰, (I'm guessing stored rather than calculated? Maybe calculated with built in Euler) so the result of division is just i¹⁰ anyway and we're back where we started.

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

Nope, everything they said is well established and correct

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I have a colleague who is trying hard to do it, but it isn't good enough yet fortunately. I point out as many issues as I can to deter him but it ain't working.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

No thank you, I don't want to imagine this please

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

I have seen 1 called a trivial factor, but I have never seen it excluded entirely from a factor list: perhaps it's a cultural thing like how 0 is/isn't a natural number depending on where you are from.

On further research it seems like my earlier critique about requiring exactly two prime factors is a little off in any case, as it would exclude e.g. 4 (which only has one prime factor). It seems like semi primes must be a product of exactly two prime numbers so I think any definition based on number of factors is doomed to over- or under- define these semi primes as they could have either three or four factors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Well primes themselves are the product of exactly two (natural) factors, only one of which is prime, so we need to specify semi primes as having exactly two prime factors.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

*numbers that are the product of exactly two prime factors

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I like the idea that time machines are like phones in that you need a receiver to pick up the signal. A consequence is that you can only travel back to the time that the machine was turned on.

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