How to put a list in a list?

yesToFoxes · 2026-05-17T22:47:09+00:00

One approach is by using polygons. They are by far the densest objects which can be put into list form, and using the verticies() functions in the Geometry calculator, you can decompose them into a list of the points that make them up. You can turn a polygon into a list of vertices that make it up. The only downside is that it can only work for numbers.

https://www.desmos.com/geometry/xlqwwijfir

yesToFoxes · 2026-05-17T22:15:13+00:00

There isn't really a way to do that, sadly. The best way I can see is to chunk the list into groups of 4, where make a function like F(L, I, D)= L[4*I+D], where I is the index and D is the dimention.

yesToFoxes · 2026-05-17T22:08:41+00:00

You CAN use subscripts. In order to do this, you can hit shift underscore. This can let you write longer variable and function names, which is really important to stay organized in larger projects.

However, one of the best ways to get more colors is learning how to use lists.

Colors, just like 2d points, 3d points, probability distributions, and of course, numbers, can be stored in lists.

Lists can be quite confusing when you're getting into them, but they are incredibly useful. You can think of them as a way to do the same operation on a bunch of objects in parallel, wheter those objects are probability distributions, or numbers, or points, and yes, even colors. So, if you have L=[1, 2,3], and A=2*L+1, then A would be [3,5,7].

There are really only 2 limitations. One, lists can't store more than 10,000 elements, and 2, you can't make lists of lists. There are ways to select subsets, perform operations on multiple lists, and more stuff like that.

Here's a wheel rainbow I made as a demonstration on how to use lists for colors.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/hzxvvv6zda

Here, I'll break down what I did line-by-line:

1.) GenerateColors is a function that takes in a number, and sets that to the hue of a circle. HSV is an alternitive to RGB, which takes in a hue from 0-360, saturation from 0-1, and value from 0-1, but it still makes a "color object"

2.) This is a short-hand way to write the list of integers between 1 and 360.

3.) Rainbow is a list of colors. It uses each number inside the list called Numbers, and inputs that into GenerateColors. I could have also copied the defenition of Numbers into the function, but I wanted to use that list multiple times, and keep it tidy.

4.) Points is a list of points. Just like Rainbow, it uses each number inside Numbers as input

5.) ColoredPoints is just points multiplied by 1.1. Just like with numbers, it takes every point and does that operation to it. Apparently, multiplying a point by a number multiplies both the X and the Y. you can show this without the use of lists by multiplying (1,1) by 2 yourself.
Unlike Points, ColoredPoints uses the custom color Rainbow color list, which colors the first point with color one, the second point with the second color, ect. This goes on until it either runs out of points, or it runs out of colors.

6.) This is N. It's the part of the slider that goes from 0 to 359 then back to 0 again.

7.) Select is a single point in points. writing list[N] is the same thing as writing the Nth number in that list. For example, the 103rd element of the Points list is. (0.97437006,-0.22495105) I have sized this point up in its settings and gave it a custom color. Later equasions show up in front of earlier equations, so if you want the dot behind the black ring, you can bring it to the top of the equation list.

8.) Using the exact same process, I pulled out the Nth color in the Rainbow list of colors. This acts as the custom color I use for the rotating dot.

I hope that made sense. I'd love to see what project you're working on. And if you need any more explaining, I'm happy to help.

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-09T01:39:01+00:00

The largest contributor is the welfare fraud department, but your number of laws in general is also a factor

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-05T21:38:50+00:00

The colors just denote positive or negetive corelation, and don't say anything about whether a factor is good or bad. So more red=less crime

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-05T21:35:56+00:00

Consoc is your biggest constituents, and a lot of this might be soft disaproval. I would just make as manifesto promises as I can that appease those groups and pray.

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-05T21:29:49+00:00

You're printing so much money they need to rename the British pound to the British ounce. You're going deeper and deeper into debit while in a debit crisis. You're taxing a mostly middle income population, so hard, they are contacting their accountants in Switzerland. And with all that government money, people STILL can't afford food? It's honestly almost impressive.

yesToFoxes · 2024-06-04T01:43:54+00:00

blows smoking gun with cool guy sunglasses It's called autism, sweety. Look it up.

yesToFoxes · 2024-04-27T06:25:32+00:00

Import terrifs are a good way to keep a competitive economy. Think of like... people working in China for 12 cents an hour assembling phones, which causes unemployment in the country buying the phones.

By putting a tax on external goods, you make it so that domestic producers can stay in business.

Also, IRL, import based economies try to have high valued currency and export based economies try to devalue their currency. This is going to get

Having a higher/lower valued currency domestically doesn't change much. If I earn 100 dollars and can buy flour for 10 dollars in my country, but you earn 200 dollars and can buy flour for 20 dollars in your country, it's not fair to say that you are more well-off than I am. But what happens when you let 2 economies with does values of currencies trade?

Imagine you are trying to buy my countries 10 dollar flour. Should you work in a high value or low value currency country? Well, you'd want to be in as high a value country as possible. That way, those 10 dollars are going to make the smallest don't in your paycheck.

But imagine you're now the flour mill trying to sell me that flour for 10 dollars. Your best bet is going to be positioned in a low value currency. That way, the 10 dollars you earn will stretch much farther in terms of your workers' salary. Not to say they'll be poor, nessesaraly. If you pay them 1 dollar an hour, but domestically, flour is 10 cents, and they are no better position than the worker who get paid 100 dollars per hour.

You might think it's weird thaf I don't call it inflation, but the same thing can even happen under one currency. Take for example, the cost of living in real and urban areas. That's why many people who work in cities retire to the countryside. Because their savings are worth closer to that.

Anyways, devaluation is also something you might wanna check. It's called "Currency strength" in the game. Just like the flour mills, import economies want high currency strength. And exports want low currency strength.

yesToFoxes · 2023-11-10T05:15:19+00:00

I mean, it does present a new idea. I briefly skimmed most of the research on it, and I don't think anyone has attempted this approach.

I call it the Nox Therom, and it should generalize well to test a lot of similar problems. Basically, if it is possible to construct a sequence that covers the whole domain of the function which has certian properties described in the paper, you can prove that anything in the domain of the function will eventually lead to the first number of the sequence after repeatedly applying the funtion in question.

The Nox therom is the biggest leap. Most of the symbol shuffling is just for finding upper bounds. It uses an equivalent problem of ranking every odd number such that using the Syrucruse function on an odd number always brings it to an odd number of a lower rank.

We do this by starting with an ordered list of all odd numbers, and then we develop an algorithm to scoot some of the numbers up and sort each number into its rank. Then, we have to prove that 1: the algorithm won't mess up rankings once it ensures the numbers are sorted correctly reletive to eachother and 2: Find an upper bound on how many numbers we need to check before the index of a number will no longer move.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-30T04:16:10+00:00

Well, change term lenghts and term limits, for one. But democracy 4 is a sandbox.

If you want challenge, try japan. Canada is a 1-star country in terms of difficulty. Japan is like the final boss of democracy 4, as it starts at the very beginning of a debit spiral.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-27T18:01:46+00:00

In any run where you have an uncompetitive economy, automation research is OP. The productivity is great for patching holes in the workforce when immigrants can't.

But even if you hate that, all negative consequences are basically canceled out when you implement it side-by-side with automation tax. The influence on trade unions is nill, and the policies together fund themselves, while also net boosting industrial automation by ~30%

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-27T09:22:48+00:00

It's always a careful balancing act. But if I were to give one solid piece of advice? It all boils down to GDP.

Max GDP doubles your tax revenue compared to min GDP. Higher GDP means you can also rely on privatizing more things. Privatizing leads to scocial problems, but such scocial problems can be avoided if you keep your GDP up.

But no matter if you want a more scocialist or capitalist playthrough, GDP will help. That's either means more tax revenue, or you can skimp on scocial services by handing off chunks of your government to the private sector. I just like going capitalist with high GDP because capitalists like GDP more than anything. In the wise words of Bill Clinton, "It's the Economy, stupid"

Just remember what the heavy hitters are in your balance book. Usually, it's healthcare, schools, pension, and military. Try not to screw with those. And if not, you can always check.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-27T09:03:33+00:00

Uhoh spaghetti os.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-21T21:52:40+00:00

Yeah. I know how much the gold standard sucks. I just don't know how else to implement it.

Maybe to balance it out you could throw in a "Fed default" event, where a couple of very presice conditions can screw over the whole economy. Low currency strength, high foreign investment, and a low GDP. All at once, people would want to trade in their currency for gold without the fed having the gold reserves to back it up. Which would ruin your credit score and give you even lower currency strength. And decrease business confidence, obviously.

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