• Noodle07@lemmy.world
    25·
    4 days ago

    When people give me a range from 1 to X I always pick 1 to poop on the party

    • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      4 days ago

      When I’m watching TV with friends I like to leave the volume at 9, 11, 17… numbers like that, and then act like they are the crazy ones if they get annoyed

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        4 days ago

        Am I the only one that doesn’t care what the volumes at? if I can hear it and it isn’t too loud idc if its even, odd or ending in 5/0

        • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          13·
          4 days ago

          you seem to be neurodivergent, normal people can only do evens and multiples of 5.

        • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
          4·
          4 days ago

          I don’t even look at the number, I just listen

        • NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          I used to be like that, but my current setup changes the volume by a lot with only one number. 7 ish if my gf is asleep, 10 otherwise. 12+ if there’s a lot of noise elsewhere. Was annoying at first, but now I don’t care, so I guess the curse has finally been lifted

        • Korval@lemmy.today
          3·
          4 days ago

          I only care if I can hear and I consider myself fairly normal. In the car, 9 is usually where I can hear my podcasts over the road noise. 8 and I miss words. 10, and it eventually gets unpleasant. On the TV, I don’t know: I run all the audio through a tuner and it’s hard to see the numbers from the couch. Besides, I think it measures in dB, which I don’t understand. For most shows, I think it’s somewhere in the -30s.

      • Noodle07@lemmy.world
        7·
        4 days ago

        My phone used to increment the sound by 2 notches per clicks and that pissed me off so much I couldn’t have the one in the middle 😭

    • DivineDev@piefed.socialEnglish
      15·
      4 days ago

      I always pick a transcendental irrational number. If they make the mistake to only ask me for a number it’s gonna be complex. What do you mean, “is it greater than 5?”? What the hell is “great than”???

    • danA
      8·
      4 days ago

      I’m going to make an effort to never pick 7 again.

  • nialv7@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 days ago

    well real numbers are uncountable, but the set of numbers you can think of and describe is still countable

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 days ago

      Is it? I could be convinced but I’m going to need a proof before I believe that

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        You have the explanation, but more precisely: the set of definable real numbers is countable, because a mathematical definition can be encoded as a finite sequence of mathematical symbols (of which thereare only finitely many), and so there are only countably many definitions.

        Hence most real numbers are undefinable.

        By the way, there is a simple proof that all natural numbers are definable: if not, then there is a smallest undefinable number. But “the smallest undefinable natural number” would then be a definition of that number :)

          • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            I hoped someone would make that connection! This one is actually sound but there is a closely related limitative result, the undefinability of truth (attributed to tarski) which uses a “liar sentence” like the “liar set” of Russell’s paradox: “this sentence is not true”. Of course, liar sentence have been known since ancient times, but it was only in the 20th century when we could give them a mathematical interpretation, rather than a purely logical one.

            This means that there is no mathematical definition of what is true about the natural numbers, but there are still definitions of other things, and we can still quantify over those definitions.

      • nialv7@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 days ago

        the set of finite length natural language sentences is countable.

      • Mr.Chewy@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        It’s obvious after the chapter and left unexplained as an exercise for the reader

  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
    4·
    4 days ago

    It’s technically infinite, but the set of numbers we can express (in a reasonable timeframe), while large, is finite.

  • Danarchy@lemmy.nz
    5·
    4 days ago

    The school house rock cd rom did not cover this topic in funky number land