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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

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    “Im absolutely sad”

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    What a bizarre choice for the template XD I dig it, though.

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    Before this meme I was sad. Now I am sad and in pain.

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    -(SAD)

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    HA

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      • Hupf@feddit.de
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        HA²

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          √((HA)²)

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        ha

  • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
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    I might be wrong, but I thought absolute values weren’t positive or negative?

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      I don’t understand this argument. I’ve heard high school teachers decree it as a mathematical truth before.

      Do we all agree absolute value is a function from reals to reals? If so, the absolute value of any real number is nonnegative. It can be zero or any positive numbers.

      Case closed, right?

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        It’s like taking a signed int and turning it into an unsigned int though. It doesn’t become positive it just loses its sign.

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      They’re not negative, thus they’re positive.

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        It was my understanding that it’s like velocity vs speed. Positive/Negative numbers have a directional component, that is that they are above or below zero. Absolute values, however, lack a direction. They’re a value, but they don’t tell you if the value is positive or negative.

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          Absolute value shows only distance from the 0 value on the number line without the direction. All distances are positive when viewed without direction.

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        What about non binary numbers?

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          Those are just complex.

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      If your task is to turn any number that could be negative into positive then you would use abs right?

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        I’d use a pencil. I’m too out-of-shape to have abs, particularly ones I could do math with.

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          If you’re out of shape then you can use your abs for non-Euclidean geometries

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      Technically true, but they are always graphed in positive quadrants.

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      Think math. It is a modulus function. It spits out ‘magnitude’ of its input, i.e, whatever is inside it always result positive.

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        Realised that immediately after posting and deleted it. Ig the federation didn’t work and it want deleted Ig.

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    Step between: Relativize. “It could be worse.”

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