The Nineteenth Byte

quartata

10:01 PM

I suppose the equivalent in Mathematica is just literally

Roots[#1,x]&

But I don't have Mathematica and I'm an idiot so that's probably wrong

aditsu

Newton's method could be interesting

quartata

If that's how you do it in Mathematica then yay it's shorter than the MATLab one

Maltysen

I had a nice 5 byte Pyth solution: .IvzZ

flawr

@PeterTaylor Ok now I understand, thank you. I need some time to think about this=) Do you know that this makes the problems equivalet (do you know of a proof) or is this just a conjecture?

quartata

Victory

@Maltysen Wait, what?

Maltysen

10:03 PM

for the quadratic equation one

quartata

How?

I had a built-in... ;_;

Oh he just added this

> No prebuilt functions to get the roots, thats boring, lets be creative here.

> solving quadratics

> creative

flawr

@Maltysen Perhaps it would be a good idea to undelete and tell him to use the sandbox.

quartata

> code-golf

Maltysen

@quartata It searches all positive reals by for something that make vz==0

quartata

@Maltysen dayum

That's short.

Alex A.

10:05 PM

@flawr I can leave comments on deleted posts so I can tell him without undeleting.

quartata

^

Maltysen

but yes, it does need the equation to be in terms of G

quartata

Undeleting seems unnecessary.

Alex A.

In fact, it seems like a bad idea.

quartata

He's new here, let him shelter himself from the fury of downvotes

flawr

10:05 PM

@AlexA. Every day I learn about the powers of this strange blue people.

Or you could ping him here=)

quartata

Bio:

> middle school programmer

I forgive him for not knowing that completing the square gives the quadratic formula

Maltysen

isn't there the force pull into chat thing for mods

quartata

Be kind. Have mercy.

Alex A.

@Maltysen Yes

quartata

@Maltysen He doesn't have enough rep to join the chat anyways

Alex A.

10:07 PM

Invite, that is

quartata

@AlexA. Yeah, a force-pull into chat would take some very shady programming junk and would also be somewhat... aggressive

Alex A.

haha

Well I left him a comment so hopefully he'll post to the sandbox.

quartata

Equivalent to a mafia mugging

We really don't want to generate that impression

Well, at least with new users.

>1k rep users already know the true nature of the "blue diamonds"

flawr

What do you call a piece of string where both ends are knotted together?

Alex A.

@flawr A circle?

aditsu

10:11 PM

loop

flawr

@AlexA. Woud loop be fine too?

quartata

@flawr Lasso?

Alex A.

Sure

Idk, making things up here

quartata

I don't know, just trying to think of a funny name.

flawr

@AlexA. Strange circles you have over there=)

Alex A.

10:12 PM

Little known fact: All circles in the US are freeform.

quartata

@flawr pi = 3.2 here

Indiana Pi Bill

The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. Despite its name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. However, the bill does imply various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2. The bill never became law, due to the intervention of Professor C. A. Waldo of Purdue University, who happened...

flawr

@quartata Oh right, the imperial Pi.

Alex A.

hahahahaha

quartata

(Note that I don't live in Indiana but that doesn't make it not super scary)

> The bill never became law, due to the intervention of Professor C. A. Waldo of Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.

Thank you based Waldo

flawr

I think it would have been quite interesting to see what happened=)

quartata

10:15 PM

@flawr I think I remember a math textbook mentioning this and saying that "manholes would have looked pretty damn strange in Indiana"

Something like that.

aditsu

it's not the last time they tried to legislate facts...

Peter Taylor

@flawr I think what I've given is the outline of a proof, although I accept that it's not rigorous.

quartata

@aditsu hue hue

Maltysen

"Better approximations of π than those implied by the bill have been known since ancient times."

quartata

> equilateral rectangle

Maltysen

10:16 PM

Pretty damn salty for a Wikipedia article

quartata

^

flawr

@PeterTaylor I just actually wanted to know whether there actually already is a proof that might save some work=)

quartata

The whole bill is hilarious

10/10 would laugh at again

SuperJedi224

Does anyone here know how to compile apgnano without installing the Cygwin terminal?

flawr

I recently wanted to ban all infinite fields by law. But I did not find enough supporters=(

quartata

10:18 PM

@flawr That seems like it might make counting difficult.

flawr

But for banning holomorphic functions I'd have infinite support.

(Just for making a pun out of this.)

Alex A.

@flawr Are you a holomorphobe? :P

quartata

:D

aditsu

@SuperJedi224 what's an apgnano?

quartata

Sounds like nano

Solution: use vi instead

Maltysen

10:20 PM

^

flawr

@AlexA. I love complex analysis, as long as you do not actually have to calculate stuff.

Alex A.

@quartata Unless it's uncountably infinite, then counting is already difficult.

@quartata *m

aditsu

@quartata nano is at least usable :p

SuperJedi224

@aditsu @quartata It's related to cellular automata

It's a computer program

Alex A.

So are nano and vim

flawr

10:21 PM

@AlexA. You just call things uncountable because no body really put effort in trying to count them.

quartata

Oh it's a soup searcher

Never used it before

Alex A.

@quartata Will it find the soup I have in my refrigerator?

quartata

But I mean if you can get it working by installing the Cygwin terminal, you should probably just do that.

Cygwin is pretty useful

SuperJedi224

@quartata That's the method suggested by the site

quartata

@AlexA. Depends. What kind of soup is it?

SuperJedi224

10:22 PM

Command prompt is choking on the makefile for some reason

Alex A.

@quartata Red lentil

SuperJedi224

And I can't figure out how to compile it manually

Maltysen

@SuperJedi224 it must be too chunky

quartata

@AlexA. How many lentils are surrounding the center lentil?

Alex A.

I uh what

aditsu

10:23 PM

if it wants cygwin, chances are you could compile it much more easily in Linux :)

quartata

@AlexA. Well I mean if you eat the lentils in such a manner as to simulate a B3/S23 celluar automata then sure this could help you with your soup

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Alex A.

It's actually silky red lentil soup; it's immersion blended so there are no whole lentils.

quartata

@AlexA. Then it can't help you, sorry.

Sounds good though.

Alex A.

I never wanted help. It's my soup.

quartata

Have you considered putting an RFID tag in it so that you don't lose it?

Alex A.

10:26 PM

I figured I'd just put it in my tummy for safe keeping.

Maltysen

i wonder how edible RFID tags are

omg: cnet.com/news/chew-on-this-nutrismart-edible-rfid-tags

quartata

> RFID tags contain at least two parts: an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a radio-frequency (RF) signal, collecting DC power from the incident reader signal, and other specialized functions; and an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal. The tag information is stored in a non-volatile memory. The RFID tag includes either fixed or programmable logic for processing the transmission and sensor data, respectively.

Conclusion: Moist and delicious

@Maltysen wait what

Alex A.

@Maltysen Gross

SuperJedi224

Alright, I'm currently waiting for cygwin to install

Maltysen

we'll be back to talk to u tomorrow ;P

Alex A.

10:29 PM

You should be waiting for a better OS to install.

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quartata

@AlexA. LINUX

Alex A.

Sure

@quartata I'd be happy to share the recipe if you're interested

quartata

!

Yas pls

Love lentils

VoteToClose

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aditsu

@Maltysen the article doesn't show/explain anything at all about edible RFID tags, it just talks about applications, that's bullshit

quartata

10:34 PM

Do they come in raspberry flavor

Um... blueberry flavor?

Uh... or raspberry flavor?

aditsu

raspberry pi zero flavor? :p

VoteToClose

^ New from Coca-Cola.

aditsu

raspberry pi zero is a real thing, smaller and cheaper, still not really edible though

SuperJedi224

Well, sod. Now that I'm running the makefile from cygwin, I'm getting a different error:

"recipe for target 'main.o' failed"

quartata

Hmm I don't remember if Vimscript has a one-line while.

At any rate:

while 1
strftime("%T")
endwhile

Pretty sure it works

Nice and short since it doesn't have to import anything

Maltysen

10:42 PM

it has to output every second

quartata

@Maltysen Ack

Maltysen

19 bytes Pyth: #j\:KP>.d2 3WqeK.d8

quartata

while 1
strftime("%T")
sleep 1
endwhile

That's better.

39 bytes not bad

SuperJedi224

Frankly, this is getting ridiculous

VoteToClose

What do I need to edit in the leaderboard to make it relevant to my question? @quartata, you know how to use this thing.

GamrCorps

10:47 PM

Thanks for the bounty @VoteToClose!

VoteToClose

You deserved it. :D

SuperJedi224

Refreshed my instalation and now I'm getting this:

life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm14’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm13’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm12’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm11’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm10’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm9’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm8’ in ‘asm’
life128.h:1370:183: error: unknown register name ‘xmm7’ in ‘asm’

Errorrs, errors, and more errors.

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flawr

Computers are piles of shit.

Alex A.

@quartata Here you go. Let me know what you think.

flawr

Git-receipes 0.o

Oh you can edit this stuff online, right?

Alex A.

10:54 PM

Huh?

flawr

I am not sure now whether this is a program in some fancy esotheric language or an actual receipe. (Maybe both?)

Alex A.

You mean like the language Chef? :P

It's just a recipe but I used Markdown to make it prettier.

flawr

@SuperJedi224 Does this sound like a useful everyday language to you?

SuperJedi224

Go back and check your spelling.

Alex A.

@SuperJedi224 Says the person who just wrote "Errorrs" :D

SuperJedi224

10:58 PM

@AlexA. Yeah, I guess I did.

flawr

I am not in elementary school anymore, I can wraight the way I want!

In the end english grammar is not my fault.

@AlexA. I didn't know you can do tables in markdown!

SuperJedi224

Why is it so hard to find a p8 oscillator in B478/S1234?

I've found oscillators of every period 2-7, plus oscillators of periods 9, 17, 19, 23, and 33.

Why can't I find a p8 one?

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Alex A.

11:13 PM

@flawr Not in Stack Exchange markdown, but you can in GitHub MD.

flawr

Oh, but that is actully a good question, why doesn't SE allow tables?

I suspect they did not find a solution such that their 'previews' do not get messed up.

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flawr

The sandbox really needs some uncluttering...

Is there a way to let the deleted questions disappear?

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