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Re:1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby by alex_c on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:04PM (#25231063)
This is also consistent with the old joke that developers count like cavemen: zero, one, many!
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Re:1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby by tempodox on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:56PM (#25231571)
Well, if you map the contents of the unit circle (|z| < 1) through 1/z you can reach any point |z| > 1. So there really is no need to give unique names to anything beyond 1 as it's already contained in the proverbial nutshell of the unit circle via 1/z.
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Re:1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby by lisper on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:30PM (#25231857)
You don't even need the unit circle. The unit interval is enough, as is any set whose cardinality is aleph-1.
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Re:1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby by alisonkisk on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:26PM (#25242717)
Parent (who meant disc not circle) didn't give a dimension. An interval is just a 1 dimensional disc.
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