FiskFisk33

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago

this is what I feel too. It's framed as helpful, but it is really unnecessary and often unwanted.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

Completely valid,there´s nothing to make fun of here :)

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, good luck with that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

true enough, that doesn't exclude them from being trees though.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

ooh, that looks interesting!

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Personally I can get behind YMD and DMY (while sticking to ISO would be preferrable for obvious reasons), but what on earth possessed people to come up with MDY?

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There is actually a really good explanation for us math-curious non-mathematicians here:
https://blog.plover.com/math/PM.html

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I love the comment that it's "occasionally useful"

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

ok, I define 1 as {∅} and 2 as {∅, {∅}}

proving the addition holds is slightly more complicated

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