Calculator-as-a-service
When you break the subscription cost down into weekly payments, it seems very reasonable.
It costs less than a Stabucks coffee every 5 minutes.
I wouldn’t know. I can’t check.
Adless addition is easily worth it
The secret to selling the calculator subscription is to use the smallest possible unit as the potential clients can’t use the calculator to calculate the yearly cost of the calculator subscription.
Yeah, but if you sign up for a year up front you get an additional 15 parentheses a month.
Addition = 1 mathgem.
Subtraction = 2 mathgems.
Multiplication = 3 mathgems.
Division = 5 math gems.
Square root = 10 mathgems.
100 math gems = £1.99.
1,000 math gems = £15.99.
10,000 math gems = £129.99. BEST VALUE
There’s a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult creatures like vampires and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the
fridgefringe edges of space. They’re like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It’s a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.the fridge edges of space
Somewhere near the borders of known space, shrouded by darkness and a two-week-old carton of milk, they lurk… the moldy leftovers!
What a bizarre idea. Thanks for the rec!
Gonna try to lay my hands on it, thanks, seems stupidly crazy and enjoyable
That sounds amazing. I’ll give that a read, thanks mate
Awesome my library app has it, thanks! Sounds right up my alley!
My library has it thanks!!
I’d like to add the audiobooks are quite good for those who listen! They’re a very fun series (I’ve “only” been through the first 6, quite a few more after I checked.)
Yeah, I listened to them on audiobook myself. Also about 6 of them, give or take, oddly enough. I have been doing audiobooks a ton the last few years, as I rarely have time to just sit down and read. Perfect for when you’re doing menial tasks that aren’t mentally engaging. Doing dishes, driving, going grocery shopping… audiobook.
I’ve been on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series lately which is another great series that’s also weird as hell. Weirder even than the Laundry Files by far. A half naked protagonist fighting for his life with his girlfriend’s cat in tow, meth head llamas, and a dungeon-controlling AI with a thing for feet, just to name a few things from early in the first book. And the narrator for Carl sounds a lot like Patrick Warburton. Thoroughly recommend if that sounds like your kind of thing.
I’ll definitely give them a listen!
I also need to recommend, as you seem to be a brid of my feather, using audible and a kindle together to trade off between daytime story listening and nighttime reading in bed. I know Amazon is evil, and there are a lot of issues in particular with audible’s payment structure towards indie authors, but God damn do they offer a compelling service. I picked up a new-gen Paperwhite last prime day and my bedtime routine and travel bag has been irrepreably changed.
I’d love to hear more about what you’ve been listing to!
Edit: I didn’t make it clear above but Amazon will track your progress between the audiobook and the Kindle book and sync them.
First time seeing them mentioned online, Charles Stross is great
the Laundry Files
Sweet, Thanks.
I just checked The Atrocity Archives (first book in the series) out of my local library’s e-book program.
I’m looking forward to reading this.
It’s the teachers that said we wouldn’t always have calculators in our pockets getting revenge.
Yup. If you use your calculator for 5×6 instead of remembering your times tables, they lock you out
80085
It’s an old code but it checks out
5318008
13707 193
Legend says he divided by zero
And he even found a value.
howls of discontent
Oops, all numbers are 0 now
I haz a value.
We all have value
You divided by zero didn’t you?
Pssh, I’ll divide by zero all day. You just need -infinity=infinity (think a number circle instead of a number line), and you’re good.
It’s 0/0 where the real crimes begin.
Yep. ∞ is infinitely big in the same way that 0 is infinitely small. -0 = 0 and -∞ = ∞. Opposite ends of the circle. (Or the Riemann sphere if you like complex numbers.)
For an easy approximation by this rule, just differentiate both numerator and denominator by the same variable and apply the limits again.
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Tried to do the funny “58008” on the display didn’t you?
5318008
55378008
There was 1 girl she was 16, she screwed 69 guys 3x. What’s that make her?
35007
The square root of 69 is 8 something
You probably did meth
I remember seeing a review for that game a while back. Didn’t know you could get banned from it.
I found the review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2sHere is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2s
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Now I really want to know what this person did to get this.
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Huh, I was expecting my phone’s calculator to return i, but it just says it’s undefined. You’d think imaginary numbers should be supported, but I guess not. Maybe some phone calculators do, and some don’t?
Lol, the Android calculator says, “Keep it real”.
Oh wow, that’s a nice touch. I love when devs do things like this to amuse themselves.
I mean, it’s kind of funny, but also not a great user experience. If you’re familiar with complex numbers, then you’re left annoyed that it won’t perform the computation. If you’re not familiar with complex numbers, then you don’t get the joke and it’s not a helpful error message.
Yeah, but if you’re familiar with complex numbers, you also will have or know how to get a better calculator.
Wall hacks.
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Yeah you can use all the fancy symbols you want but at the end of the day multivariate differential calculus is just addition and multiplication in a funny arrangement, you can’t stop me. L’Hopital taught me how to divide by zero and by god I will, damnit.
Homie tried to divide by zero.
Homie is chinese
This is what smurfing will get ya
TEACH ME THE DARK EQUATIONS OF OLD
x=1+2+3+…
screams in infinite series
∞!
-1/12, obviously
Correct! 😄
-1
It’s 1+2+4+8…
I stand corrected.
