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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So wait, are we still posting to bunch-of-letters or to numbers?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

The Metropolitan Police said they witnessed a “deliberate effort, including by protest organisers” to breach conditions that had been imposed on the event.

PSC posted some videos to their Twitter account showing that the police did let them through the first line of police barricade.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's been a hot minute since I've had to do any serious maths, but that does roughly line up with what I remember about BODMAS. It's just intuitively, there's a difference between - as an infix operator (10 - 5) and - as a prefix (-3). If you where to solve x^2^ where x = -3, I don't think you'd say it's -9.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Nope, you can’t assume the - is included in the square if there’s no parenthesis around it. The answer is -9.

Surely that would mean the answer's ambiguous, no? The lack of brackets means we can't know definitively if - is included or not. But separately, I'd argue that -3 represents negative three, not subtract three, and negative three is it's own distinct number from positive three.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

True! I mean, what is the difference between creativity and mental illness if not output?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I would say it's -3 × -3.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you change the display name to something like "196 (archive)" so it's easier to distinguish them?

lemmy-ui community selector with 196 in the search bar, showing two entries titled "lemmy.blahaj.zone/196

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If one million people are using a headphone jack, I'm one of them;
If five people are using a headphone jack, I'm one of them;
If one person is using a headphone jack, that one is me;
If no one is using a headphone jack, I'm no longer alive;
If the world is against headphone jacks, then I'm against the entire world;
Till my last breath, I'll use a headphone jack.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

I think this means Momo won.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

Ah, so they are. The ones I've read have always been pretty prescriptive so I just assumed the c meant change.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago

I can see that. One day we'll figure out how to communicate tone over text.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That is weird, maybe check your language settings? Make sure you have 'Undetermined' selected. If not, maybe log out and back in.

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