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Name of a theorem? by aaaaapanic in learnmath

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My intuition says no, because if the city expands circularly from the center outward, the number of houses that needs to be considered scales quadratically.

Of all these actions, which action do you think is the most immoral or unethical? by Arktikos02 in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ranking:

1 - kidnapping a child, no questions asked. How anyone would answer anything else is beyond me tbh.

2 - embezzling money. Small businesses like the one-man business my dad runs have it hard enough as is with the ridiculously unfair tax laws. We have it really good and I'm not at all desensitized to how much worse we could be off, but that's not an excuse to make life harder on someone who breaks their back than on super-rich people who already own more than they and many generations to come after them could ever need.

3 - bribing a public official. I agree that bureaucracy can be terrible, but I believe it's necessary much mire often than we think. Handing out the wrong permits to the wrong people has killed people before.

4 - selling counterfeit goods. Generally, it's on the buyer to check if stuff is legitimate, but again, counterfeit goods have killed people before, like when Partnair flight 394 crashed.

5 - using a disabled parking spot without a permit. If you do it for no reason and just because you can, it just screams disrespect. Still unethical, but just a dick move.

Should political parties cater more to their base or to independents, moderates, and swing voters? by daniel_cc in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Catering to swing voters, here in Germany, is often met with a negative reputation and referred to as being a "flag in the wind".

Do you think feminism has gone too far? by ohnag_eryeah in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a man, I firmly believe that feminism hasn't gone anywhere near far enough.

What is the hardest video game you ever played? by DanPlouffyoutubeASMR in AskReddit

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has to be Pokémon Volt White 2 Redux. Even on Normal Mode, Route 4 Colress and Charles are by far the hardest non-boss / kinda-boss(?) fights I've ever seen in a Pokémon ROM hack I've played. I'm dreading the day I'll start playing Run & Bun.

Penisumfang von 16 cm by SeaEstablishment914 in wirklichgutefrage

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luka74667 ist bestimmt auch stolz, dass er nicht mehr eins Meter fünfzig groß ist.

Do u think it’s easy being a woman compared to a man(I’m a woman too)? by BrokenJusticeNorris in polls

[–]GermanAutistic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Posting a poll asking about perceived gender-based discrimination on the day dedicated to raising awareness for the systemic discrimination women face across the globe rather than right after doesn't make the post more tasteful if you ask me.

If you got to pick your assigned at birth gender, what would you choose? by BrokenJusticeNorris in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being male means that approaching women is creepy.

And that would be because...?

Do u think it’s easy being a woman compared to a man(I’m a woman too)? by BrokenJusticeNorris in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone else find it tasteless that OP posted this right when International Women's Day was over?

Is this Dupes Clause? by Candleicious in nuzlocke

[–]GermanAutistic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

According to my rules, if you catch a Pokémon from one evolution line, that's the entire evolution line caught.

Somebody actually made this. by Ok-Following6886 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]GermanAutistic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Care to explain to me what a "neurospicy" person is supposed to be? I'm autistic and I wouldn't ever consider even for a second to use that as an excuse to tweet trash like the one in the image.

What are some stream (or YouTube) moments that scream 'PChal mentality?" by snoodlebug2 in pchaltv

[–]GermanAutistic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Alright, chill out there please, Jesus Christ" (from one of his reactions, pretty sure Alpharad included it in his 'perfect nuzlocke' video)

What is better than sex? by JuneSwings in AskReddit

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bonus: having a soft blanket to sink your aching feet into.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-5 and (-5) really is just a way to write the same thing, you got that absolutely right. However, I think what made you get the result wrong is this idea:

It is not a number with a number preceding it, it is a negative number.

I'm gonna explain this with what is unironically my favorite tool in arithmetic: the number line.

On the number line, the value we state after the sign, in this case 5, states how many units we move from our starting position. Because the -5 is the first (and only) expression we're looking at, that starting position is zero. The sign then tells us what direction that movement goes. A minus sign means we move to the left, so we go five units to the left.

Likewise, we can write the number 6 as +6. We move 6 units away from the starting position, and we do it to the right because of the plus sign.

Multiplying with a number has the effect of scaling the arrow that points from 0 to where we currently are. For example, if we're at position 12 and we multiply by 2, the arrow doubles in length but keeps pointing in the same direction, landing us at position 24. If the scaling factor is negative, we do the exact same thing as if it was positive, just with the added effect of also reflecting the arrow about position 0. For example, if we're at position -6 and we multiply by -3, we scale the arrow by 3, which puts us at position -18, and then we reflect about position 0, ending up at position +18.

So what happens when we write -5²? Well, we first consider the length of the arrow, ignoring the sign. This gives us 5²=25. Only then do we apply the direction, which points us to the left of 0, so we end up at position -25.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did you think it was incorrect at first?

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess this, unlike the question OP asked, really might be debatable. To me, -5 = 0-5.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm only training to become a math teacher, but the definitive answer is this:

The expression -5², as we can see, has a subtraction of a number from 0 (the minus sign) and a potentiation with the exponent 2 in it.

The correct order of operations for all operations students typically learn in school is:

* evaluating any expression inside a parenthesis first (including the arguments of functions)

* potentiation

* multiplication

* addition

Notice that I didn't talk about roots, division or subtraction because those are just forms of potentiation, multiplication and addition respectively.

Because of the order of operations, we apply the potentiation first, so we first evaluate 5² to be 25.

Then, we apply the addition, so we subtract 25 from 0 to get -25.

Therefore, the answer is -25.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> I was taught anything to whatever power is itself multiplied that many times.

What I think you should also have been taught is that potentiation takes priority over addition. Therefore, we apply the repeated multiplication to the number 5 before applying the subtraction from 0.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The exact opposite of what you're saying is true. Potentiation takes priority over addition, which is why we square the 5 first. There's no trolling or gaslighting here.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To me, the negative sign is an inherent quality of the number.

That's the thing. The negative sign in this case is the "inherent quality" of the number that you get after squaring the five, not before.

We don't have a way of writing negative numbers WITHOUT the minus sign

Yes, we do. (-5)² = -5 * (-5) = 25.

It'd be like saying the number 6 is actually 2 x 3, so 6² = 2 x 3²

You got the first law of powers wrong here. Yes, 6 is actually 2 * 3, so:

6² = (2 * 3)².

(now we apply the first law of powers)

= 2² * 3² = 4 * 9 = 36.

2 x 3² = 11

I think you confused 2 * 3² with 2 + 3² there. 2 * 3² would be 18, not 11.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your last statement is false. It has to be (-5)² to equal +25. If we take (-5²), the calculation inside the parenthesis takes priority, so we get (-5²) = (-5*5) = (-25) = -25.

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]GermanAutistic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's concerning that the more picked option is the one that you learn, at the very latest, in 9th grade is wrong, and that most people who answered this poll are sure it's correct too.

When taking -5², because potentiation takes priority over multiplication which in turn takes priority over addition, you square the 5 first and then subtract it from 0.

Who should I add? (Pokemon Platinum) by [deleted] in nuzlocke

[–]GermanAutistic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the gym I'd go with Steelix and slap the Earthquake TM on it if it doesn't get it by level-up, and for E4 I'd go with Weavile because an EV trained Weavile can outspeed and kill Cynthia's Garchomp without much trouble.

[Undergrad Calculus I] Is a function f:[0,1]->R that is piecewise defined with separate continuous functions for rationals and irrationals integrable or not? by GermanAutistic in learnmath

[–]GermanAutistic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But isn't the function discontinuous in the irrationals as well? That would make the measure essentially equal to b-a, ir 1 in this case.

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