square-land

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12:28 AM

P: where do you wind up when you multiply square-land by square+land?
S: where you started?
P: becaaaause . . . ? . . . .
S: (square-land)(square+land) = (square-squared) - (land-squared) = square-land

2 hours later…

matt

2:26 AM

impressive!

HTM

2:49 AM

This implies that square + land is an identity element of an abelian group containing square - land and, therefore, that there exists an inverse to square - land

Perhaps circle - sea?

3 hours later…

matt

5:25 AM

what

does that mean

every color = 1 California of people

source: ~~reddit~~

bobble

5:44 AM

california is big big

9 hours later…

matt

2:18 PM

indeed

1 hour later…

bobble

3:19 PM

I've decided to just be always lurking in here - I come in and then leave myself in the room while I do other things

1 hour later…

matt

4:31 PM

hiatus-ing

4 hours later…

matt

8:46 PM

not anymore

bobble

not anymore?

1 hour later…

matt

10:01 PM

@bobble yes, not anymore

(apologies if that was not a necessary ping)

bobble

neh, fine now

is this code?

ahah I have made code!

second code test

print("Hello, matt")

matt

10:14 PM

yep - put code in `backticks`

also, print("hey bobble")

bobble

```bobble_is_awesome = True```
```print('The statement "bobble is awesome" is', bobble_is_awesome)```

meh my multi-line formatting ain't workin

I give up

matt

for multiline code in chat
type zero backticks
just the code
and hit ctrl-k
or put four spaces before each line

bobble

multiline code test
second line

matt

yep!

bobble

square-land: code formatting classes for free!

matt

10:20 PM

indeed

too bad chat doesn't have syntax highlighting

that would be awesome

bobble

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