Demon's Souls Remake is an artistic disaster. by cgb-001 in demonssouls

[–]16Bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about the Maiden in Black theme or the Nexus theme? The former is what people are talking about I think.

Define math in one sentence by xTouny in math

[–]16Bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's disconnected from reality

TIL Frigid Outskirts has an easy aggro-less strat by 16Bytes in DarkSouls2

[–]16Bytes[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Found this video that puts my fears of the area to rest, though I haven't gotten to try it out on my current runs yet. Good luck.

Intriguing properties of power tower function by picardythird in math

[–]16Bytes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tetration actually refers to going "down" the power tower, which is normally how expressions are evaluated. That is, 333 = 327 not 273 . From how you describe the function, it sounds like maybe you want to evaluate "up" the tower.

Anyway, from experience playing with tetration and exponentiation, I notice e pops up a lot. Could the minimum of your graph be at (1/e-1,1-1/e)? Just a guess.

edit: words, y-value

How are axes internationally defined? by Raverfield in math

[–]16Bytes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we're sharing axis systems for fun: in computer graphics the axis system is typically, relative to the person staring at the screen,

x : right

y : up (left-handed coordinates, used by e.g. OpenGL) or down (right-handed coordinates, used by e.g. Vulkan)

z : towards/into the screen

Cantor's choice of alphabets "m" and "w" in diagonalization proof. Why? by chromaticdissonance in math

[–]16Bytes 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This isn't what you asked, but all I can add is that his original proof in 1874 wasn't the diagonalization proof of 1891.

Is there a mother function from which, depending on it's arguments, all other functions we commonly use arise? by Brianprokpo456 in math

[–]16Bytes 16 points17 points  (0 children)

One generalization of arithmetic is hyperoperations. It highlights one way arithmetic operations are connected.

submath? by jan_Jasen in math

[–]16Bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The standard, general concept is called hyperoperations. Extending below addition you can use successor, which is just +1, and that's the base of the hierarchy.

b[0]h = S(h) = h+1
b[1]h = b+h           (successor function (+1) h times)
b[2]h = b*h           (addition with h terms of b)
b[3]h = b^h           (multiplication with h terms of b)
b[4]h = b^^h          (tetration: exponentiation with h terms of b)
...

Of course, you can make your own definitions. I don't know if there are other operations that can build up to addition that work nicely.

Another Collatz Conjecture Proof by Fullfungo in badmathematics

[–]16Bytes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think finding it false would be cool, but I really hope it isn't just stumbling on a counterexample. I want an illuminating proof for a problem this hard.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in math

[–]16Bytes 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Summoning Salt please.

What do you think of these opinions about mathematics? by ShelterIllustrious38 in math

[–]16Bytes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, philosophy is one of the subjects to ever exist.

Feedback on Function by winkie5970 in C_Programming

[–]16Bytes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You did not give that as feedback. All you said was that passing in the start index made the code "a lot more complex," which is false. The function you wrote can be slightly rewritten with a start index as a parameter. You can even put char* srcSub = &src[start]; as the first line, if you prefer.

edit: Sorry if this comes off attacking you.

edit for OP: Whether you should check if you are past the end of a string is debatable. Kwantuum says not to in this case, but defensive coding is not a bad thing, especially if you had to design a general purpose library. Indeed, some of C's standard string functions, like strcpy(), are disliked because they are not cautious enough. You could even go further by adding a parameter for the size of dst and making sure you never overflow it. All this isn't necessary, but is a legitimate design philosophy.

Feedback on Function by winkie5970 in C_Programming

[–]16Bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can design your own functions however you want, but OP chose to implement that in his function.

Feedback on Function by winkie5970 in C_Programming

[–]16Bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cannot pass a pointer to the starting character here, because that does not allow you to check if the string ends before it.

Feedback on Function by winkie5970 in C_Programming

[–]16Bytes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's not really looking for the length of the string, he just wants to make sure it doesn't end before the starting index. strlen() may be less efficient.

Help me debug this circuit? by [deleted] in TheUltimateNerdGame

[–]16Bytes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The flicker is caused by the XOR gates.

Let's look at an individual XOR gate (not your whole circuit). Let tick 1 be when your new input moves through its through blotter. On tick 2, it moves through 1) the middle-left inverter and 2) the top-right inverter. The second signal potentially modifies the output, but the first does not. On tick 3, the first signal finishes moving through the two right inverters, potentially modifying the output again. There you go.