Calculator-as-a-service
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There's a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult creatures like vampires and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the fridge fringe edges of space. They're like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It's a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.
the fridge edges of space
Somewhere near the borders of known space, shrouded by darkness and a two-week-old carton of milk, they lurk... the moldy leftovers!
Gonna try to lay my hands on it, thanks, seems stupidly crazy and enjoyable
It's the teachers that said we wouldn't always have calculators in our pockets getting revenge.
You divided by zero didn't you?
NO CALCULATOR IS GOING TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO!
Pssh, I'll divide by zero all day. You just need -infinity=infinity (think a number circle instead of a number line), and you're good.
It's 0/0 where the real crimes begin.
Yep. ∞ is infinitely big in the same way that 0 is infinitely small. -0 = 0 and -∞ = ∞. Opposite ends of the circle. (Or the Riemann sphere if you like complex numbers.)
While this Riemann sphere seems like a useful concept, -∞ = ∞ is an observation that doesn't seem to hold true outside this spherical model of complex numbers. Just add ∞ to the both sides, and you end up with 0 = ∞ + ∞ which is most certainly not true.
Legend says he divided by zero
And he even found a value.
howls of discontent
iPad users be like
Tried to do the funny "58008" on the display didn't you?
Yeah you can use all the fancy symbols you want but at the end of the day multivariate differential calculus is just addition and multiplication in a funny arrangement, you can't stop me. L'Hopital taught me how to divide by zero and by god I will, damnit.
Now I really want to know what this person did to get this.
Huh, I was expecting my phone's calculator to return i, but it just says it's undefined. You'd think imaginary numbers should be supported, but I guess not. Maybe some phone calculators do, and some don't?
Lol, the Android calculator says, "Keep it real".
I remember seeing a review for that game a while back. Didn't know you could get banned from it.
I found the review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2s
Homie tried to divide by zero.
x=1+2+3+...
This is what happens when one attempts to divide by 0
Seems fair
He did the monster math
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