the ordered thread

[atax1a]

No randomness allowed here. Start with:

0

 

[JohnK]

I honestly do not have a lot of time here (I'm running to yet another meeting) -- and I apologize for the brevity, but...

1

 

[Kai Burghardt]

10​

 

[mer]

42

 

[JohnK]

42

! VIOLATION !

This thread would have accepted either 11 or 3

 

[mer]

! VIOLATION !

This thread would have accepted either 11 or 3

Incorrect. I gave "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" therefore it is never wrong.

 

[atax1a]

technically this thread is still ordered in increasing order!

67

 

[Crivens]

Maybe it's a ring.
122

 

[JohnK]

Incorrect. I gave "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" therefore it is never wrong.

technically this thread is still ordered in increasing order!

67

*sigh* Has anyone ever called you guys "frustrating"? Just agree with me (so I can be right and you can be wrong).


Riddle:
How does 57 relate to this post?


EDIT: I can't figure out how to make the text in the paren's smaller so, don't read that part until after you agree with me.

 

[JohnK]

Maybe it's a ring.
122

ha! ...I'll see you here tomorrow.

1010

 

[Alain De Vos]

Please allow to increase the randomness & entropy of the universe.
1/137.035999177 : fine structure constant.
42. The answer to everything.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

The soul of all threads is ordered.

 

[atax1a]

e

 

[mer]

1 / 0

 

[Alain De Vos]

Maybe this is a religion. I think the universe is infinite. Size 1/0.
But then 25% of all U.S. citizens think the Earth is flat.
I'm gone read some books, but i think the answer is 42.
There is even a Hitchikers guide to galaxy.

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[atax1a]

1 / 0

now, now, that's not even comparable!

 

[mer]

now, now, that's not even comparable!

Why not? It's undefined, so it can be almost anything one wants.

 

[atax1a]

Why not? It's undefined, so it can be almost anything one wants.

it's NaN, which doesn't participate in comparisons, it's not even equal to itself

 

[Phishfry]

If you don't have the seal you are a goner.

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144,000

 

[Alain De Vos]

This is just for fun , no idea,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel's_incompleteness_theorems

 

[MG]

Maybe this is a religion. I think the universe is infinite. Size 1/0.
But then 25% of all U.S. citizens think the Earth is flat.
I'm gone read some books, but i think the answer is 42.
There is even a Hitchikers guide to galaxy.

This thread is a time anomaly. Random appearing noise from the future. We must not disturb causality and zap the universe. Everything is normal, we were all searching this information and it looks like expected. It goes wrong when somebody traces down the server logs and finds out nothing has a source.

 

[atax1a]

This thread is a time anomaly. Random appearing noise from the future. We must not disturb causality and zap the universe. Everything is normal, we were all searching this information and it looks like expected.

yes, backrooms-adjacent coyotes tend to produce temporal anomalies. goes with the territory.

 

[mer]

it's NaN, which doesn't participate in comparisons, it's not even equal to itself

It doesn't participate in numeric comparisons, but how can you say it's not equal to itself? Are you invoking Heisenberg or Schrodinger?

 

[Alain De Vos]

Ooh, now you entered my field. As Feynmann would have said, do the calculations.
[ Meaning , dont try to understand, nobody does]

 

[atax1a]

Oh wait 1/0 is +∞, which is comparable. But NaN != NaN by definition per IEEE 754. Using ruby for convenience, but you can reproduce this with any IEEE 754 compliant software.

irb0> m = 0.0/0.0
⇒ NaN
irb0> y = 0.0/0.0
⇒ NaN
irb0> m == m
⇒ false
irb0> m == y
⇒ false   
irb0> y == y
⇒ false