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[Armok]

Thanks!

I'm reading that book right now actually! Yea, it's great.

You shuldnt have mentioned quaternions and transcendentals thou, now I'm on a wikiwalk instead of doing whatever I am supposed to be doing... Which ironically I think is math homework.

Edit: Ok, I think I got my fallacy by reading the coments criticising that article abaut nullity. As I understood it it is perfectly posible to say x/0, but evrything is a solution to it, so it's just meaningless, along the lines of saying x=x, it's MORE meaningles than saying -∞<X<∞ because that excludes some nonreal numbers. A graph with divide by zero would be a solid square of ink.
Is this correct?
 

[Vector]

Edit: Ok, I think I got my fallacy by reading the coments criticising that article abaut nullity. As I understood it it is perfectly posible to say x/0, but evrything is a solution to it, so it's just meaningless, along the lines of saying x=x, it's MORE meaningles than saying -∞<X<∞ because that excludes some nonreal numbers. A graph with divide by zero would be a solid square of ink.
Is this correct?

Hm... sort of.  When you write x/0 = y, you get x = 0*y but x =/= 0.  Basically, division by zero breaks the basic purpose of algebra (getting solutions to equations), so we leave it out.  It's not about the meaninglessness of writing x/0, since that tends to ∞.  It's about all the parts of math that it breaks and we'd really rather have around.

Saying -∞ < x < ∞ is fairly meaningful in all cases--it tells us we've got an arbitrary infinite set with certain characteristics defined.  That kind of statement is the limiting factor one needs to begin a proper proof, since very rarely are things true for all numbers.

If we graphed the solutions to the equation x/0 = y, then yes, we'd get a solid block of ink... though in general, we just don't because the statement -∞ < x < ∞, -∞ < y < ∞ such that x/0 = y is kind of pointless, as outlined above.  No matter what you do with it, it's universe-breaking.

[Armok]

Ok, thanks, that's actually quite illuminating.

[Hippoman]

Douchebaggers keep ruining our progress in our tunnel society. And I keep forgettting to upload the pictures of our society.

Dug it all outta a snow mountain, and luckily its been snowing hard, so more mountain!

[Itnetlolor]

Steam is still causing me grief...

They finally responded:

Hello ----------, Thank you for contacting Steam Support. The purchase of 3 carts with 23 games total with -------- ending in **** has been disputed. The cardholder will need to close the dispute and have the funds returned to Steam. If the cardholder is unable or unwilling to drop the dispute and let the credit card company know that the purchase is valid; and in turn have the funds returned to Steam then we will not be able to reactivate the account. All games on your account are locked to the account and can not be transferred to a different account. A different payment method can not be used for this game, the money must be returned by the card that made the original purchase. We are not able to do anything further with your account while a credit card dispute is still pending, please remedy this issue with the credit card company before asking for the account to be reactivated.

All this, after I already settled the problem weeks ago. This is getting annoying. With how common this crap is becoming, I assume I'm being targeted by someone for no reason at all; just a hunch. To make things worse, I don't know whether I missed out on any special deals or offers or anything because of it being my birthday or not.

[ein]

Despite an increasingly active lifestyle, my appetite has been rapidly decreasing.
It's gotten to the point where I'm inclined to just eat breakfast on most days.
Breakfast being a bowl of cereal and a bowl of coffee.
Today, I nearly forgot to eat lunch and had to force down my dinner.
The only thing that made it possible in both situations was strawberry preserves.

[Hippoman]

Despite an increasingly active lifestyle, my appetite has been rapidly decreasing.
It's gotten to the point where I'm inclined to just eat breakfast on most days.
Breakfast being a bowl of cereal and a bowl of coffee.
Today, I nearly forgot to eat lunch and had to force down my dinner.
The only thing that made it possible in both situations was strawberry preserves.

When I first found dwarf fortress I stopped eating all together. Now I eat snacks and I'm set.

[JoshuaFH]

Bowls of coffee?

[Itnetlolor]

Despite an increasingly active lifestyle, my appetite has been rapidly decreasing.
It's gotten to the point where I'm inclined to just eat breakfast on most days.
Breakfast being a bowl of cereal and a bowl of coffee.
Today, I nearly forgot to eat lunch and had to force down my dinner.
The only thing that made it possible in both situations was strawberry preserves.

I've been in a similar position, but more for financial reason more than habit reasons. Reason I make sure to buy some snacks to eat alongside play, as well as a backup box of dry or canned food to cook in case I am indeed out of food to eat. It's amazing how even a spare bag of Ramen noodles can save your day.

[ein]

I use the same bowl for my cereal and my coffee.
Saves dishes.

[Rooster]

I passed out in the middle of class today.
Hurt my head pretty badly because of a sudden contact with hard floor.
Now I'm in constant pain.
It happened before. 5 months ago. Doctors didn't find anything, or they are just so stupid and lazy that they decided a 16 year old can just go and die. And I'm expecting just that. Diagnosis is nowhere to be found, and it is getting worse. Dying as a teenager would certainly suck

[ein]

I passed out in the middle of class today.
Hurt my head pretty badly because of a sudden contact with hard floor.
Now I'm in constant pain.
It happened before. 5 months ago. Doctors didn't find anything, or they are just so stupid and lazy that they decided a 16 year old can just go and die. And I'm expecting just that. Diagnosis is nowhere to be found, and it is getting worse. Dying as a teenager would certainly suck

Yes it would. I'd recommend finding better doctors.
What kind of doctors do you have?

[Rooster]

Public. And on top of that hospitals most of the time are on huge debts, because the government doesn't give enough money. So I wouldn't be surprised they did everything they could to cut down on costs.

[Tack]

Yeah, but they kind of have a duty of care. To everyone, not just non-teenagers.
If they're giving you the wrong perscription, maybe you aren't being detailed enough with your symptoms.

[Realmfighter]

My uncle just died.

Its not his death thats making me sad, but instead my lack of sadness.