i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day
i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day
i wish the people making buildings around here knew that. some start at floor 3, others at 5. some start at 0. others at 2. every building has its own story. you need to understand the building before you can understand your position in it.
do you also have minced tables there?
he’s in a better place now
another chicken and egg problem
the name seems to be an unfortunate choice that stems from their historical usage as “a means to an end”. i.e, they were first used as part of a method to find some solutions to cubic equations. this method would require algebraic manipulations of complex numbers, but the ultimate goal was to discover a real root. the complex roots would be discarded once a real root was found (if it existed).
the wikipedia article attributes the name to Descartes:
… sometimes only imaginary, that is one can imagine as many as I said in each equation, but sometimes there exists no quantity that matches that which we imagine.
which i think helps to highlight how skeptical the people at that time were about the existence of the “imaginary” numbers.
source: memories of my first complex analysis class, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#History
i’d strongly recommend reading the history section of that wikipedia page to anyone interested in the topic, it has some pretty fun history
could not be me in the second frame
how are the new doctors made?
before and after if they were born women, and only in the asylum if they were born men
i hope i don’t end up with the -4000 mAh battery if i buy the phone
if you learn how to solve zeno’s problem in the first book, it may be possible to solve 100% of your problems in the second book
it really lasted less time than liz truss
you’d likely need to go somewhere a bit more extreme to wait for silksong
it also bothers me when people say “my algorithm” to refer to the thing that recommends posts to them. people shouldn’t ever say “my algorithm” unless they personally own a copy of the kick-ass prog-metal band
yeah let’s do it. is it wide enough for two people or do we need to take turns?
i guess that explains why nobody wears masks anymore
that was a horrifying read
i just go crazy on the tabs and close them all at the end of the day. if an important tab got lost, then i can just find it through my browser history
this seems like the only proper way to do anything in C++. it’s a language where there’s 5 ways to do 1 thing and 1 way to do 5 things.
god i hope so