Otter to Comic [email protected]English • 2 months agoNumber Line Branch · xkcd.comimgs.xkcd.commessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1412file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1412imageNumber Line Branch · xkcd.comimgs.xkcd.comOtter to Comic [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-22 months 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.