Canadian Tire has bags of vermite castings on sale. I guess if you called it 
, it wouldnāt sell as much.
This definition of integers (that I got from the internet so it must be true) clearly states that -9 is an integer, and that integers are whole numbers, therefore -9 is a whole number.
Iām telling you the puzzle is a lot more fun if a negative integer is considered a whole number.
Apparently itās an ambiguous term. I learned it as Natural = {1,2,3,ā¦}, Whole = {0,1,2,3,ā¦}, Integer includes the negatives.
Iāll trust Wolfram to have the best info.
Whole Number -- from Wolfram MathWorld.
Agree the puzzle is more fun with integers, so do it that way.
I think it is. I notice profs tend to make sure itās well defined upfront, and from any time I can recall, they define things as you did.
1 Like
There are a few things like that that crop up from time to time in my classes. Another one I see a lot is defining polynomial spaces. The way I do it, and the way I see it most often, is that P2 is for polynomials of 2nd degree or less (which makes it a 3-dimensional space - isomorphic to R3). Sometimes I see it defined as polynomials of degree less than 2, which makes it a 2-D space. Always creates confusion.
In grad school it was always naturals are 1,2,3,ā¦
Whole numbers included 0. (Wh0le includes the ā0ā.) That was how we kept it straight
1 Like
My smart watch currently says itās -0Ā°. Not zero, but negative zero.
Is that just a glitch, or does that imply itās slightly negative or something?
I would say it is between 0 degrees and the first available negative decimal.
Yeah, Iāve read that -0 implies a temperature roughly between -0.49999 and -0.00001.
I think itās dumb, but whatever.
Feels like pseudo-precision or thereabouts. I didnāt pay attention until it said 1Ā° so I didnāt see it flip from -0Ā° to +0Ā°. Dang.
2 Likes
the real message isā¦it is cold enough to wrestle with the ability for the watch to make sense
I mean in some contexts it is potentially useful if being above or below freezing matters and you DO have that level of precision.
But for weather from a location several miles away from where you are, quoted in Fahrenheit where 0 is the freezing point of salt water in the laboratory conditions of Fahrenheit himself, itās pretty meaningless. You shouldnāt use salt well above 0F, and the aforementioned precision will be lacking anyway.
So yes, pseudo-precision is an apt description of your phoneās weather app stating -0.
Nerd.
In the San Antonio holiday river parade the floats literary float.
Iām inspired to put some ice cream into a glass and pour some root beer over it.
1 Like
Weāve all heard of feminists right? But how come we donāt give equal consideration for the masculinists?
Is this a serious question?
Shouldnāt it be āmasculistsā?
Either feminine to feminist > masculine to masculist
Or
Female to feminist > male > minist
Seems about right.
1 Like
Just from the avatar for the most recent post in the poker thread, I figured it was a bot. Waiting for the edit to insert a link. 
1 Like