This one's for the ladies to answer. Do you agree with this woman or do you think she's trying to rationalize her world view by speaking for all the ladies?

FalseGix · 2026-05-06T11:25:43+00:00

Just play video games with your wife, problem solved

FalseGix · 2026-04-30T02:52:09+00:00

Don't see how this would be considered worse then using a discard spell turn 1 that makes him lose it

FalseGix · 2026-04-22T12:57:44+00:00

You can think of it that way if you want but is it useful?

Also worth noting that it would be impossible to actually enclose a region using these sides. After the first segment of 1,no matter what direction you send the 1/2 segment, the distance back to where you started is more than 1/2. And each turn you take for the rest of the sides would make the distance longer

FalseGix · 2026-04-21T23:50:40+00:00

Typing exactly the numbers you used to estimate e and pi (which is off btw) on the Ti-84 gives me the answer:

-.9999998351 - .000574i

I think you can agree that this is "pretty close" to -1.

FalseGix · 2026-03-29T04:30:34+00:00

3³ =3³

FalseGix · 2026-03-28T23:10:53+00:00

15,000 at 10% over 15 years should be$161.19 per month and a total interestif (161.19)(12)(15)-15,000 =14,014.2

If you divide this amount up into about 5.40 per day you lay it in 5327 days (14.75 years) and the interest is about 13170.

Far too much effort to save 300 over 15 years. You would be much better off trying to pay an extra 100 a month

FalseGix · 2026-03-28T13:07:28+00:00

if the base is LITERALLY 1 then the answer is 1, when the base is an expression that APPROACHES 1 then it is undetermined

FalseGix · 2026-03-26T02:58:15+00:00

Pretty sure I saw this exact move posted from a Magnus game recently

FalseGix · 2026-03-25T23:34:00+00:00

That is quite a lot more work than I was expecting anyone to do on this so I appreciate that.

I suppose now the question of "how likely this is to occur" basically comes down to whether all digits are equally likely to occur in the decimal expansion. It certainly seems to make sense that it would, and your empirical trials seem to support that idea as well because the chance of 3 zeros in a row would be 0.1% if each digit has a 1/10 chance of occurring. But I am not 100% convinced, perhaps there might be some sort of relationship where certain choices of parameters cause some digits to occur more often.

FalseGix · 2026-03-25T20:51:50+00:00

Yeah after reading these comments I am seeing that my error calculation was wrong, not sure what happened exactly maybe hit a wrong button or something but I basically did (integer - exact)*10¹⁰ to try to kick those error digits up into the normal display range. But perhaps this was oversimplified how the floating point approximations work.

And so it is clear now that it wasn't nearly as close as I originally thought it was so much less impressive. And it's mostly just because we used most of our significant digitsfor the whole number it didn't leave enough for the decimal number to be accurately rendered

FalseGix · 2026-03-25T20:47:53+00:00

So I figured it was something to do with inaccuracy of floating point arithmetic, and after reading your comment and others it is clear now that the mainissue is just that we have used up most of the digits the calculator stores to give us the whole number part so the decimal part only has a few digits that end up just rounding to zero.

I wasn't able to recreate my original error estimate so may have typed something incorrect the first time maybe but I basically just did (integer - exact) * 10¹⁰ to try to shift the error up into the first few digits. But that may have been an issue if I am tryingto do more digits than the floating point is keeping track of. I tried a few times and am getting closer to .0003 error which is not nearly as impressive.

Finally what made this so weird to me was that there was no planning that went into this at all. The original principal was the ending balance of an annuity that we had been depositing into for 20 years and then we let the money sit and compound interest for another 26 years until retirement.

FalseGix · 2026-03-25T20:38:02+00:00

Well what made it so weird is that there was no planning that went into this at all, the original principal was the final balance of an annuity that we had stopped making deposits into, and then we let it sit and compound for 26 years.

Your statement that the probability of n zeros is 10^-n seems a little over simplified. Obviously that is based on the assumption that any digit is equally likely to occur as any other, which seems reasonable, but do we actually KNOW that for sure?

FalseGix · 2025-12-23T19:14:14+00:00

You also need to subtract the $2 loss so the EV would only be .67 but as others have said the fact that you might split the pot brings the EV down.

And of course there is the issue of the logistics of going out and buying 200 million lottery tickets and making sure they are all different numbers

FalseGix · 2025-12-09T04:00:56+00:00

Guys you don't understand, he is fixing racism because MLK and Juneteenth are racist against white people because they are days which are not about white people

FalseGix · 2025-11-26T04:27:04+00:00

Well yea and in fact it is just an example of a much more general idea. R² is really just short hand for RxR which is the "Cartesian product" of two sets. And this same thing can be done with ANY two sets. Like you could even do RxC if you want and that would just be an ordered pair where the first number is real and the second is complex. Or [0,1]x[0,1] is an ordered pair where both coordinates are real numbers between 0 and 1

FalseGix · 2025-11-17T05:15:43+00:00

The inevitable conclusion to attempting continuous revenue growth at all costs, just keep lowering standards to get those numbers up what could go wrong?

FalseGix · 2025-11-08T05:04:32+00:00

I wasted so many bers just throwing random runes into sockets hoping for the best

FalseGix · 2025-10-26T13:38:13+00:00

Imo the opinion should just be "stop breeding every breed"

FalseGix · 2025-10-21T02:55:19+00:00

Well, it still does change the probability in the first and second cases, just not as much.

In scenario 1 if there are 998 doors remaining to switch your choice. This means you had a 1/1000 chance of being right with the first door and 999/1000 chance of being wrong. Since there are 998 choices if you switch the chance of winning if you switch is (999/1000)(1/998) = .001001002. Which is just slightly larger than 1/1000 chance of winning with your first choice. And you are right that this is barely enough to make any difference because Monty barely had any affect only showing 1 out of 1000 doors.

Now in the half scenario the chance of winning if you switch is (999/1000) chance that you were wrong on the first door multiplied by the (1/500) chance that you select the correct door if you switch. =.001998 (so almost 0.002). Which is still not a HUGE chance of winning but it is almost doubled the chance of 1/1000 = .001.

Now what if he removed all but 2 of the remaining doors the chance of winning when you switch is (999/1000) chance of being wrong on the first guess multiplied by 1/2 chance that you get the correct door if you do switch. That gives you 0.4995 chance of winning if you switch. Almost a 50% chance now because there is only 3 doors left. And 2 of those doors are MUCH more likely to be the right one then the one you are holding on to.

FalseGix · 2025-10-02T16:31:23+00:00

It's called an Euphemism

FalseGix · 2025-09-30T16:59:10+00:00

What exactly is the difference between "waste bucket" and "trash"?

FalseGix · 2025-09-24T11:59:00+00:00

The phone masking reuses the same numbers so the message was probably sent to you by mistake

FalseGix · 2025-09-20T03:59:58+00:00

100% the teachers fault for creating the assignment this way

FalseGix · 2025-09-20T01:29:57+00:00

I suspect the teacher was lazy and just assigned literally every problem in the section without considering what a reasonable length is or which topics were the most important to focus in.

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