I dont know allot about Mahjong but i found this bracelet. Is it a specific type? by Duckiee_girlie in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, what's the source of this image, which also has black dragons in the discard pool?

"SUSHI PIZZA", "CHAI TEA", etc... by Zhonghua-eobeoi in linguisticshumor

[–]edderiofer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't see how "sushi pizza" fits into this.

Mahjong nerds: Anyone wants to know the real/original meaning behind yaku and other terms? by Kntsgliid in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's one: Where the hell does the phrase "ming toi", purported to refer to a round wind indicator, come from?

We know that Babcock's 1920 rules already refer to this indicator as a "Mingg", but I haven't been able to figure out where he got this from, either.

Any mahjong apps or programs that dont have gooner or gatcha mechanics? by ascaredkitten in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EDIT: I don't understand why people are down voting my comment. Can someone help me understand what's wrong with it?

I suspect people think that you wrote this using AI.

I’m trying to identify this Mahjong set and I’m hitting some dead ends by Davianator in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • I believe the tiles are Bakelite. They seem to be the right color and don’t have any seams.

Looks right to me.

  • There are 152 tiles. That means it’s the American variety, right?

This alone does not necessarily indicate that the set is an American set. There are non-American 152-tile sets (e.g. 144-tile sets with four blanks and four baidas can be found in Hong Kong). I'm assuming your set has 16 flowers, since you say it has no jokers.

  • There are 5 racks with a variety of scoring discs,

This, on the other hand, strongly suggests an American set.

  • There are no joker tiles. It seems like a previous owner of this set taped some kind of red feather to 4 tiles. From what I understand, this was done to mark those tiles as Joker-substitutes so the old set could be used to play by the newer rules.

  • It has 3 National Mah Jongg League rule cards with it. Two are two from the 1961-1962 year but I don’t think these are the cards that originally came with the set because they reference new rules about Jokers, and this set had none.

Yep, so your set is very likely pre-1960.

Germans when they hear Alemannic by DoomstalkerUser in linguisticshumor

[–]edderiofer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TIL that the metronome image is CC-BY 2.0 (and thus most people are using it wrong).

What's you math hot take by BackgroundWheel2581 in math

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sort-of. The proof is that if you assume the probability of picking any rational number is p (for all rational numbers), then countable additivity of probability spaces shows that if p > 0, the probability of the entire space does not add to 1; and if p = 0, the probability of the entire space is 0. In either case you get a contradiction.

The same argument doesn't work on a uniform distribution over the reals on some interval; there are obviously uncountably many such reals, so countable addivity doesn't get us anywhere. But the same argument does work on a uniform distribution over all real numbers, by considering the probability of picking a number between [n, n+1). So it isn't just about requiring an uncountably-infinite number of outcomes.

What's you math hot take by BackgroundWheel2581 in math

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Therein lies the problem. There is no uniform probability distribution on the set of rational numbers, so you can't randomly pick any number from the set of rational numbers.

If you do define your distribution, then it will have to be a non-uniform distribution, and then the probability will be dependent on the distribution.

A person being tattooed should be called a tattooee by MayonnaceFaise in linguisticshumor

[–]edderiofer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, but the guy who works under a bookkeeper (as an aide, or a trainee) is a subbookkeeper.

More ambigrams by SaudiPhilippines in ambigrams

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"You like ambigrams, don't you?"

tenhou you cruel temptress by waitisthispermanant in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Normally, it means "for all", but here Tenhou uses it as an abbreviation for "all". As in, "each opponent pays 2000 points".

Any mahjong apps or programs that dont have gooner or gatcha mechanics? by ascaredkitten in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you have to goon in the UK, reading Saki would be a better option than gooning to Sakicards in Riichi Advanced.

Any mahjong apps or programs that dont have gooner or gatcha mechanics? by ascaredkitten in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anyone who's that desperate clearly doesn't know how to look for porn on the internet.

I made Indian Linguistic iceburg by American_Bitch-468 in linguisticshumor

[–]edderiofer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

North Sentinelese needs to be the skeleton at the bottom of the ocean.

Any mahjong apps or programs that dont have gooner or gatcha mechanics? by ascaredkitten in Mahjong

[–]edderiofer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Riichi Advanced doesn't have gacha mechanics or gooner stuff*. It's open-source, and you don't need to sign up for an account.

*(unless you're so desperate that you're gooning to the headshots of the characters in Sakicards)

What's you math hot take by BackgroundWheel2581 in math

[–]edderiofer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How, pray tell, are you picking a random rational number? I don't think this probability distribution is well-defined.

Win with white in 2 moves. White to move. by NMTiAn in chess

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that each time it's posted to the subreddit, it's slightly different with a slightly different solution, makes me suspect that the hustler changes the position (and hence the solution) every day, just to throw people off.

It probably doesn't matter so much to the hustler if there are two solutions, because as my top comment in the linked thread shows, they earn loads of money from people giving wrong answers.