Don't do the forbidden math
Don't do the forbidden math
Calculator-as-a-service
100When you break the subscription cost down into weekly payments, it seems very reasonable.
61It costs less than a Stabucks coffee every 5 minutes.
50I wouldn’t know. I can’t check.
34Adless addition is easily worth it
7The secret to selling the calculator subscription is to use the smallest possible time base for the quoted price since the potential clients can't use the calculator to figure out the yearly cost of the subscription.
5Yeah, but if you sign up for a year up front you get an additional 15 parentheses a month.
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Addition = 1 mathgem.
Subtraction = 2 mathgems.
Multiplication = 3 mathgems.
Division = 5 math gems.
Square root = 10 mathgems.
100 math gems = £1.99.
1,000 math gems = £15.99.
10,000 math gems = £129.99. BEST VALUE
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There's a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult creatures like vampires and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the
fridgefringe edges of space. They're like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It's a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.68the fridge edges of space
Somewhere near the borders of known space, shrouded by darkness and a two-week-old carton of milk, they lurk... the moldy leftovers!
22What a bizarre idea. Thanks for the rec!
14Gonna try to lay my hands on it, thanks, seems stupidly crazy and enjoyable
5Awesome my library app has it, thanks! Sounds right up my alley!
4My library has it thanks!!
4That sounds amazing. I'll give that a read, thanks mate
4I'd like to add the audiobooks are quite good for those who listen! They're a very fun series (I've "only" been through the first 6, quite a few more after I checked.)
3Yeah, I listened to them on audiobook myself. Also about 6 of them, give or take, oddly enough. I have been doing audiobooks a ton the last few years, as I rarely have time to just sit down and read. Perfect for when you're doing menial tasks that aren't mentally engaging. Doing dishes, driving, going grocery shopping... audiobook.
I've been on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series lately which is another great series that's also weird as hell. Weirder even than the Laundry Files by far. A half naked protagonist fighting for his life with his girlfriend's cat in tow, meth head llamas, and a dungeon-controlling AI with a thing for feet, just to name a few things from early in the first book. And the narrator for Carl sounds a lot like Patrick Warburton. Thoroughly recommend if that sounds like your kind of thing.
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the Laundry Files
Sweet, Thanks.
I just checked The Atrocity Archives (first book in the series) out of my local library's e-book program.
I'm looking forward to reading this.
3First time seeing them mentioned online, Charles Stross is great
3I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
2novel series called the Laundry Files
Thank you i'll search that 👍
2Happy to share. Hope you enjoy.
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I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
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It's the teachers that said we wouldn't always have calculators in our pockets getting revenge.
49Yup. If you use your calculator for 5×6 instead of remembering your times tables, they lock you out
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80085
46It's an old code but it checks out
165318008
613707 193
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You divided by zero didn't you?
45NO CALCULATOR IS GOING TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO!
16look what you did, now everything is broken
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Pssh, I'll divide by zero all day. You just need -infinity=infinity (think a number circle instead of a number line), and you're good.
It's 0/0 where the real crimes begin.
15Yep. ∞ is infinitely big in the same way that 0 is infinitely small. -0 = 0 and -∞ = ∞. Opposite ends of the circle. (Or the Riemann sphere if you like complex numbers.)
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Silly Euclideans
3…divided by 00
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iPad users be like
31Now only included on Apple One.
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You probably did meth
28Yeah you can use all the fancy symbols you want but at the end of the day multivariate differential calculus is just addition and multiplication in a funny arrangement, you can't stop me. L'Hopital taught me how to divide by zero and by god I will, damnit.
16Now I really want to know what this person did to get this.
14I remember seeing a review for that game a while back. Didn't know you could get banned from it.
I found the review:
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TEACH ME THE DARK EQUATIONS OF OLD
14Homie tried to divide by zero.
12Homie is chinese
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2+2=5
10Literally 1984
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This is what smurfing will get ya
10This is what happens when one attempts to divide by 0
8Or square root of -1
3i see what you did there
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Seems fair
7Wouldn't even care. Excel is always open.
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He did the monster math
6It was a graveyard smath
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He really said 80,08.
5The forbidden math is used to summon demons: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.quaap.computationaldemonology/
3This is what happens when you try to use third party ink cartridges in your calculator.
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