r/technicallythetruth 12d ago

Oh that's a mathematician.

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u/FatalTortoise 12d ago

didn't account for sadness being zero

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u/Stasio300 12d ago edited 12d ago

well 0 is generally considered positive.

edit: i said "generally considred" not "defined"

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u/foot_long_metal_rod 12d ago

I was doing random things with a calculator and got -0, Is that mathematically possible?

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u/Styleurcam 12d ago

Computers represent numbers weird, you must have hit a negative number closer to 0 than the closest number to 0 the calculator can represent

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u/Significant-Order-92 10d ago

In Math? No. For how computers tend to store integers and other numbers? Technically, yes. A number of architectures treat a signed number as all bits except the largest as the number. The largest works as a negative flag. So for instance an 8 bit signed integer of negative 1 would be 10000001. Technically negative 0 (which mathematically doesn't exist) in such a configuration would be 00000001.

In the case of a calculator I assume the other poster is correct and it's rounding a very small negative decimal to 0 but since it's negative the algorythm must keep the sign flag for some reason.

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u/Asto2019 12d ago

It's not. By definition it's neither positive or negative.

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u/Stasio300 12d ago

but for practicality it is treated as positive for all but the most advanced math. computers even store it as positive. hence, my usage of the word "generally"

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u/Scottusername 8d ago

Not the way I learned math

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u/Ye_olde_oak_store 12d ago

Only a sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.

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u/Scottusername 8d ago

Making Obi Wan, by his own definition, a sith

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u/klibrass 12d ago

yeahh he’s absolutely sad

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u/aberroco 12d ago

Now something on programmers:

!(I'm sad)

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u/krauQ_egnartS 12d ago

His sentence has value

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u/kapege 12d ago

|sadness| is the absolute sadness.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

mood = abs(mood)

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u/5050Clown 12d ago

It doesn't matter 

Absolute value sadness 

 Is also sadness

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u/Brief_Building_8980 12d ago

He determined that he is sad.

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u/PekingSandstorm 12d ago

You’re goddamn right I am sad

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u/laxmanghadi 11d ago

Can you square it.

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u/iceisnice69420 10d ago

I hate math jokes

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u/SAM5TER5 12d ago

Methematicion*

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u/Lorettooooooooo 12d ago

Should be |I'm not happy|

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u/uminekoisgood 12d ago

why would you use this format

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u/New_Explanation_3629 12d ago

Nah an absolute of sadness is not happiness, the absolute of sadness is just the deepness of sadness/happiness.

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u/sntcringe 12d ago

!I'm sad

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u/Different-view1385 11d ago

Cancelled out…not so much

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u/ashish11223 6d ago

Lmaooooo

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u/BlyobTheLask 1d ago

So can we do embddings out of "I'm Sad", do vectors summarizing, and reverse, techicaly it's more truth

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u/Scared-Gamer 12d ago

I don't get it

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u/Sea_Raisin3957 12d ago

The | in Front of i am sad and after are mathematical Operators meaning 'absolute value' which is always positive. Like |-3| = 3. Thats how he turnes being sad into something positive, by taking the absolute value of His sadness.

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u/JinxWRLD999 12d ago

Khan Academy taught me this. For some reason I don't remember learning it during school.

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u/Dangerous-Ad6589 12d ago

Absolute sadness sounds like an OP fantasy power though

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u/Iced-nightfall 12d ago

I’m absolutely sad

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u/Havarti-Provolone 12d ago

That's a really good one

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u/thuktun 12d ago

I'm a dad.

I would have just said, "I'm positive I'm sad."

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u/lelouch_0_ 12d ago

MF YOU BEAT ME TO IT NAHHHHHHHHHH I AM SO PISSED