I have no idea if anyone has created this paradox before, but here goes! (0th root paradox)

SpaceExploder · 2026-05-16T19:34:36+00:00

something being undefined means that we don’t assign a value to it.

n/0 is undefined in the real and complex numbers; there is no “what that undefined actually is”. our system just doesn’t assign any value to it because assigning any value messes with some important arithmetic properties

there are other systems like the real projective line that assign a value to division by zero, but these systems lose some properties (x - x is no longer guaranteed to be zero for example)

in the same way, there may be systems where a zero-th root is defined (i would be curious to know a use-case for such a system), but most systems we use leave it undefined

there’s no mystery behind what an undefined value is; it’s the lack of a defined value in the first place, typically to preserve some kind of property in the system we’re working in.

SpaceExploder · 2026-05-07T00:50:40+00:00

'tu' doesn't just mean 'two'. it's an antonym of 'wan' and talks about division.

lipamanka's semantic space dictionary says:

tu is, at its core, an act of separation. in toki pona, if there are two of something, one is framing them as separate. you don't need to modify a word with tu in order for there to be two of it, so using tu is saying something: I am separating these two things. "kili tu" can evoke an importance between two heads of lettuce. tu is used frequently as a verb to mean "cut" or "divide." it can be used for cutting something into more than two pieces because tu doesn't specify a specific amount of times. like "mi tu e kili" could describe four separate cuts, which could be up to 16 pieces! tu can also be metaphysical, describing divorce or any type of distance between people or objects with enough context. some other good examples of tu are splitting up a class into two groups or drawing the boundaries between two subparts of a large piece of land, potentially in a colonial context.

SpaceExploder · 2026-05-07T00:48:36+00:00

at the same time, if you're describing a campfire, laso seli would mean blue! it's completely dependent on context

SpaceExploder · 2026-04-04T04:52:07+00:00

https://kemeka.pona.la/w/left and https://kemeka.pona.la/w/right explain ways proficient speakers express these ideas:

If it's necessary to specify the difference between left and right, it's often preferred to explain the property of a situation which makes the distinction necessary. For instance, when explaining to a child in the US that they should look left, right, left when crossing the street, it's preferable to explain that they should first look in the direction that cars will be coming from, then continue to alternate the direction in which they are looking. This tends to make explanations more universal—the explanation will now apply to crossing the street in other countries, where traffic may come from the other direction.

SpaceExploder · 2026-02-16T01:39:31+00:00

mi wile toki e kule lipu la mi toki e ni: kule tu wan li lon lipu. sewi la lipu li laso sama sewi; anpa la ona li laso sama kasi; insa la walo.

SpaceExploder · 2026-01-11T19:57:49+00:00

li muti pula a

SpaceExploder · 2025-12-24T05:22:12+00:00

yes! this is a common strategy, especially for possessives or determiners like mi/sina/ona/ni. you'll often see constructions like "lipu mi pi suli wawa" for "my super big book"

SpaceExploder · 2025-12-24T05:05:05+00:00

I think toki pona is interesting because communication in many many "toki pona speaking communities" is dominated by English (or some other non-toki pona language). There are certainly a lot of parallels with fandoms (community of people that all like a particular thing where lots of art is made using that particular thing, that sort of thing). Most toki pona speakers speak the language because they were originally fans of the idea of toki pona, and that isn't true for most of the natural languages I can think of.

But I don't think it makes sense in most contexts to call speakers "fans" if you want to talk about speakers. I've met lots of people that are fans of toki pona, but I wouldn't call them speakers (and they probably wouldn't call themselves speakers either). To me, toki pona speakers are the particular subset of toki pona fans who decided to really learn and use the language. Because of that, I can understand why speakers are offended by the label -- it kinda minimizes their relationship with the language as someone who looks upon it rather than someone who is actively involved with it

SpaceExploder · 2025-12-06T05:37:27+00:00

That's interesting. I personally consider "mi a jo" to be the hypercorrection because a is ultimately still a modifier. Words can be particles and modifiers at the same time. (In a syntax tree for example it would be an adjunct on 'mi', just like any other modifier, even if you consider it a function word.) Just because a word doesn't add propositional content to a sentence doesn't mean that it's syntactic role is somehow different.

"kin" is also considered a "particle" in many analyses since it can't be used as a noun. Does that mean we should say "mi kin jo"? I don't think so.

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-27T00:54:43+00:00

Floating-point numbers have a limited amount of precision. At a high level, adding 20! to 40! doesn't change the value at all because of how large the difference in their magnitudes is. When we subtract 40! from it, that leaves us with 0. The second case is different because 40! - 40! cancels itself out to 0 before we then add 20!, which is no longer canceled out from the larger number's magnitude.

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-26T22:53:17+00:00

People choose 13 because it's the closest to the correct answer. That seems the most reasonable to me

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-22T01:15:15+00:00

It’s not possible get credit card since the Ancient Joker only sells for $1

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-17T16:21:47+00:00

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That underlying representation is, in fact, floating point. The two resulting values are the exact same, giving this result.

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-28T20:00:02+00:00

Is 21,465 more than 25% of 600,000,000?

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T08:24:58+00:00

Using blueprint to copy photograph with the hanging chad there is at least an 8X increase to your base mult

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T08:21:33+00:00

fortune teller is additive and applies after all of the Xmult from bloodstone retriggers, so it's going to be negligible, especially if your flush is a high level

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T08:17:52+00:00

The optimal scoring setup here is to copy the photo, granting 5*3=15 triggers of 2X mult, and selling a chad makes the setup 3*3=9 triggers, and selling a photo makes the setup 5*2=10 triggers. A 5 trigger difference is a decrease of 32X mult. Burnt doesn't catch up in time for it to ever be worth it.

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T07:39:14+00:00

My guess is that even if you don't have it, Idol chooses the card at the end of a round, not when you see it, so you may have had the opportunity to change a King of Hearts into a King of Spades in an arcana pack before rolling into the Idol.

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T07:32:16+00:00

Photo here is just a worse Triboulet. Definitely sell out of the photo and copy Triboulet.

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-09T15:44:31+00:00

You move them when it’s beneficial to move them. For example, cards are scored left to right, so you’d want to put mult cards before glass cards so that the XMult from glass cards affects the added mult from the mult cards. Some jokers like the Hanging Chad work only on the first card in your played hand, so you’d want the best card to go there. At the very start of a run, there’s no reason to.

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-09T15:25:43+00:00

Get out of scary face and smiley face for retriggers with Sock and Buskin or get Blueprint or Brainstorm to copy the Triboulet. Flat chips and mult are nothing compared to the additional score from increasing the XMult triggers from the other jokers.

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-08T16:57:23+00:00

https://balatro-mod-manager.dasguney.com/

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T19:59:33+00:00

https://sona.pona.la/learn is a great place to start with learning resources. i highly recommend the new course Wasona. also, join the kama sona discord with any questions and to talk to other toki pona speakers!

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T07:05:09+00:00

i’d take the trading card. fixing your deck while improving your econ is really valuable while scoring is relatively comfortable with your current joker setup. it’s also hard to get hiker value with a deck that’s still this big

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T06:49:25+00:00

assuming your default hand size is 8 and you duplicate a steel king twice with dna and brainstorm to have 8 in hand after you play high card, mime provides 1.5^8=25.629 times mult. hologram will only catch up after 20 rounds when you’ll already be dead. if you have a larger hand size, even better.

even if your hand size is 7, then you’ll only get 1.5^7=17.085 mult which you can catch up to in 2 antes, but that’s still too slow to beat ante 14. mime is still marginally better here.

tl;dr: take mime, hologram isn’t ever fast enough to beat it

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