Otter@lemmy.ca to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoNumber Line Branch · xkcd.comimgs.xkcd.comimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1408arrow-down1imageNumber Line Branch · xkcd.comimgs.xkcd.comOtter@lemmy.ca to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoOh, great. Now people will be forever having to explain that they meant the other 3.5, the other 3.9, or other Pi. It really needs a new digit alongside 3, where it branches. Is it too late to write to the standards committee?
minus-squarewhotookkarl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month ago- prefixes numbers along the number line in the opposite direction. If we had a second branch starting after 3 we could do the same if they shared digits and bases with the standard number line. Maybe suffix - or prefix 3№ or something like that.
Oh, great. Now people will be forever having to explain that they meant the other 3.5, the other 3.9, or other Pi.
It really needs a new digit alongside 3, where it branches. Is it too late to write to the standards committee?
- prefixes numbers along the number line in the opposite direction. If we had a second branch starting after 3 we could do the same if they shared digits and bases with the standard number line. Maybe suffix - or prefix 3№ or something like that.