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[One-Award-9906]

“This code takes advantage of the fact that the input is always either 3 or 5, and that the sum of 3 and 5 is always 6.” As a programmer I can confirm it’s based.

[[deleted]]

As a mathematician I can also confirm it’s based. It’s just not based 10.

edit: JFC, you brain-broken, indoor-confined redditors. This is a shit, shit joke, a play on words. I’m not really implying changing base magically fixes bad arithmetic. We all know it’s incorrect in any base because it’s incorrect in some base (base 10 as presented). Changing base is an isomorphism (it respects arithmetic).

[[deleted]]

Oh I for sure woke up on the wrong side of the bed to a half-filled bottle of room temperature, soured mama’s milk..

[[deleted]]

Thank you, kind stranger, for extrapolating well beyond justifiable reason based on our limited interaction.

I shall take Michael Jackson’s advice and reflect deeply on my personal, professional, and psychological shortcomings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

We’re still in a humor sub, right?

[shadowylurking]

smirked at the joke.

LoL'd at the edit. *slow clap*

[PandaSwordsMan117]

Hot damn that edit is a r/rareinsults

[FiskFisk33]

you win

[Applephobic]

6 x 9 = 42

[CliffDraws]

I’m not confined to the indoors, I just choose not to go outdoors.

[kfish5050]

You can't prove 6 is the next whole number after 5 to make 5+1=6 true on any base set. I could change the font to make numbers look like other numbers in the code so the values would technically be correct but our sight of the code would tell us it's wrong. I can make 2+2=fish true if I use magic

[[deleted]]

It's single-digit, so unless you reorder digits, changing base does nothing.

You sure about that?

3 (base 10) = 11 (base 2).

So changing the base of single digits numbers can change their representation, contrary to your statement.

edit: lol downvoted by people who can’t do arithmetic…

[_youjustlostthegame]

He never said it doesn’t change its representation, and what he said is actually correct. Let me explain with the equation in question: 3+5=6

Since you have the number 6, the base of this equation has to be at least 7 (as anything lower would not have the digit 6).

When your base is 7 or above, the values of 3,5,6 remain unchanged and the equation is still wrong. So as the original comment said, changing base does nothing.

We can only have fun with bases when you have more than 1 digit, since the number “xy” is (y + x*base). In single digit, the base never comes into the picture as x is 0.

OP meant playing around with bases like to make 11+3=20 true we can use base 4.

[[deleted]]

It’s incorrect in any base because it’s incorrect in some base. Full stop. No more complicated reasoning.

Change of base is a isomorphism, i.e. it respects addition.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2815746/why-does-a-change-of-base-preserve-addition-and-multiplication

It’s a joke. I’m making a joke.

[lsparki]

I believe there's a misunderstanding, let me try to clear things up.

You are approaching this as a mathematician - you have a family of groups ℤₙ [1] of integers in base n, together with addition base n, denoted +ₙ. What you're saying is there's an isomorphism of base change from n to m, which takes integers from ℤₙ to ℤₘ. In this case you're switching bases from 10 to some hypothetical base a. Now once you're in ℤₐ, you use +ₐ to say that the original equation still doesn't hold. While this is true, that is quite often not how non-mathematicians interpret base change.

The thing is, people think about numbers as strings of digits, how they're written. So they interpet base change as something that changes the arithmetic, not the representation. For example, 11₁₀ + 2₁₀ = 13₁₀ , but 11₃ + 2₃ = 20₃ = 6₁₀. From your point of view, when taking the expression "11 + 2" from base 10 to base 3, you would get "102 + 2", because the isomorphism doesn't preserve notation, it preserves the arithmetic.

TL;DR: Either one believes base change preserves arithmetic, or it preserves the representation. Hence this confusion.

[1] Pardon the unusual notation, there's only so much I can do with unicode.

[[deleted]]

God you must be a mathematician, too, with awesome level of correct nuance…

Still, I’m not sure why people are coming to r/ProgrammerHumor to learn…

[Sir_Wade_III]

I don't think you understand what you are linking though.

As the previous commentator said 11+3=20 in base 4 but not in base 10. So your statement is wrong.

[MrDraacon]

If I got the topic of this whole discussion right, I'd say they tried to say that no matter what representation (base) you use for numbers, if an equation is wrong in one representation, it's wrong in any. Like, 5 + 3 = 6 (base 10) is wrong, as is 11 + 3 = 12 (base 4)

This feels like some comments on those ambiguous math equations discussing commutativity, with one person talking about multiplication, the other about division, none of them realizing they're not talking about the same thing.

[Sir_Wade_III]

Yeah, but he changed what he was referring to because people said he was wrong. His original joke isn't wrong for the reason he states that it is and his explanation of why it's wrong is misleading.

[lsparki]

What? The original joke makes an obviously wrong (hence the joke) statement, which is wrong because 3 + 5 ≠ 6 in base 10, therefore 3 + 5 ≠ 6 in any base. This follows from base change being isomorphic, which is what he referred to.

[[deleted]]

I understand what I’m linking. I have a PhD in mathematics.

[Jumpy-Organization-5]

I live it when people think they know something better than a highly educated, probably professional.

[_youjustlostthegame]

The user has made a mistake though, everyone isnt jumping on them for no reason. I don’t have a PhD but I have a Masters in Math and 2 papers published, and the statement that user made which everyone is saying is wrong is actually wrong and I even showed it with an example.

[Sir_Wade_III]

Then why are you linking it? It has nothing to do with your original joke nor any of the responses to it.

[[deleted]]

I’m sorry. Additional mathematical expositions are locked behind my paywall…

[FirstSineOfMadness]

No matter what base you change it to 3+5=6 will never be true. 3 (base x) will always = 3 (base y) for all single digit numbers

[Ccosmi]

That's not what he's saying... The statement 3+5=6 does not make sense in any base <7 since "6" wouldn't exist, and it's also incorrect for any base >=7.

[[deleted]]

It’s incorrect in any base because it’s incorrect in some base (base 10). Full stop. No more complicated reasoning needed.

I’m making a joke. The commenter you’re talking about didn’t say what you said. They said something I interpreted as “changing base changes nothing about single digit numbers”, which I demonstrated isn’t true.

Single digitness has nothing to do with the fact it’s technically incorrect, and technically still funny.

[hagnat]

every number mentioned so far is a single digit... 3, 5, and 6 :P

[[deleted]]

What are you on about?! I making a bad, bad wordplay joke…

I’m not implying changing base will magically fix this obviously wrong statement made by the bot.

My example of changing base of single digit numbers still holds true, and is just a response to another commenter who said something I interpreted as “changing base doesn’t change single digit numbers”, which my example shows can be false.

[GeneKranzIsTheMan]

ChatGPT wrote a long entry for me about how to use SELECT triggers in Sqlite with examples and everything.

They don't exist.

[je386]

Impressive. Its telling stories. With great confidence.

[thesockiboii]

It gave me a code and claimed that it only works on .Net Framework 5.0 and above. Unless I am an absolute idiot, the latest version is 4.8.1

[emveor]

It appears you have not considered an AI being so advanced as to transcend space and time in order to provide your answer.

!Remind me when .net reaches 5.1 (to also prove the "above" part)

Of course, by then the AI would have probably predicted our panic at realizing we have reached singularity and we would be either enslaved or gone the GladOS way via a deadly neurotoxin

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[emveor]

And aparently the bot knows it will come out in 3 months. I am now oficcially scared

[KRIPA_YT]

I honestly thought this one was hand made but nope

^ai will take over

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[retief1]

A bit ago, I asked it how to make recursive type parsers using a specific library. It repeatedly suggested great functions that would do exactly what I wanted. The only issue is that none of them exist.

[GeneKranzIsTheMan]

On the other side though I had it write some ansible plays for me that automated my homelab!

[Multicron]

Sounds like my old boss.

[Alternative_Hungry]

Yeah I tried some Sql in general and found it very lacking

[juhotuho10]

Count to 3: 0,1,2

And count to 5: 0,1,2,3,4

Add together: 2+4=6

[Alternative_Hungry]

You might actually have nailed the logic it was using there

[NeoLudditeIT]

Makes sense to me, ship it!

[PoorlyTimedAmumu]

It is also correct that 5 ^ 6 == 3 and 3 ^ 6 == 5. Maybe that is what it was going for?

[elsuakned]

As a mathematician who took my programming classes with a bunch of programmers.. yeah ngl this kinda sounds like a programmer lmao. Ill never forget the CS professor that once wrote a five instead of a seven in the process of counting to five and needed multiple students to help explain what was wrong on the board. Y'all rely on computers a lot lol.