So I'm guessing that the symbol ^ means "to the power of"?
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2005 7:11:07 am PST #9609 of 10003
brillig
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 7:12:10 am PST #9610 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I'm guessing that the symbol ^ means "to the power of"?
Yes.
On computers, anyway.
I don't know how to do the zero superscript. &sup0;? eta: no.
Fred Pete - Dec 13, 2005 7:12:17 am PST #9611 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
So it's Schrodinger's exponential?
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 7:13:24 am PST #9612 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So it's Schrodinger's exponential?
Yes.
See, I knew that cat^0 was relevant!
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2005 7:14:10 am PST #9613 of 10003
brillig
What does * stand for in math?
Ginger - Dec 13, 2005 7:15:50 am PST #9614 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I mean, either it's defined or it's undefined. Except it's both.
It's the Schrodinger's number?
eta: Inevitable Schrodinger's crosspost
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 7:16:51 am PST #9615 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What does * stand for in math?
Multiplication. I think it's because of computers, because "x" was also the letter and confusing.
But I don't know the timing for sure.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 7:18:24 am PST #9616 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Multiplication.
Except when it doesn't. Like, for me this semester, * has stood for "some binary operation". (This has made typing up my homework more challenging.) But usually it's multiplication -- generally when typing, since the multiplication dot can be kind of hard to make show up.
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 7:20:54 am PST #9617 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Why would 0^0 ever equal 1? I don't get that.
n^0 where (n != 0) being equal to 1 I can get since:
n^0 == n^(1 - 1) == 1/n * n == 1
But if n == 0, then you get 0/0 which should be "Oh Shit" instead of 1.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 7:22:56 am PST #9618 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Why would 0^0 ever equal 1?
Convenience.
What? You were expecting something mathy?