The Nineteenth Byte

Yeah, close enough. Stirling's approximation is ln(n!) ~= n ln(n) - n + ln(n)(ish).

Oh yes, El'endia's Constant, denoted "ish."

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@AlexA. Not to be confused with Sp3000 constant ><>

So ln(G!) ~= G * ln(G) ~= G^2.

So I was wrong earlier. G! has about G^2 digits.

Daniel M.

12:31 AM

Holy []<>+-.,

I think now is a very good time to post Wait But Why's post on this: From 1,000,000 to Graham's Number.

Thomas Kwa

No, G*ln G is not about G^2, in terms of proportion.

G! has about G^(1+epsilon) digits

where epsilon is very close to 0

Daniel M.

But G is a finite number, so the amount of digits will increase exponentially for factorial

yo why the heck did I get 2 stars for "brb dinner"?!

5

you guys' stars make no sense

8

ok gg

2

⁣kek

12:39 AM

@ThomasKwa Hmm. I guess that depends on how you view the proportion of G and ln(G).

@quartata Kek?

@AlexA. We've been through this before.

Horde laugh. I think.

Horde?

Yes, and in fact you said the exact same thing yesterday.

@AlexA. World of Warcraft.

Your meme memory is not so good.

12:39 AM

You should take a class in meme-fu.

^

@quartata Me memery

@DankMemes what is

yesterday, by quartata

@AlexA. kek

Kek?

12:43 AM

Take a look.

The kek is a lie.

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hahah

@quartata sniff Killed by a fire ant at level 5 after ~2000 moves.

@El'endiaStarman !gt a

12:46 AM

Phew. I was one second away from posting a new challenge when I realized how trivial it was in some languages...

what was it?

It probably wouldn't be trivial in Minkolang!

(And by some languages, I mean Pyth.)

@Doorknob I want to watch a game in progress on NetHack. Are you in one? Or perhaps @quartata?

I don't think "this is trivial in some languages" is a barrier to posting challenges anymore, judging from the last few weeks...

12:47 AM

@AlexA. I am not. Still got homework to do.

Boo

You can watch the ttyrecs of some of my ascensions though :P

...

(I made a script to package them all up into one big .tar.gz file)

Nethack seems like it would be the worst Let's Play series ever.

12:49 AM

haha, there would be no point anyway though since you can just watch people via NAO

@Geobits It's possible it would have been popular anyway, but I was going for something a tad more challenging.

@Geobits Sounds like you should pitch the idea to Rooster Teeth.

@DankMemes Chunky palindromes: Split a string into a palindromic array.

@Doorknob I'm watching HouseMusic the Magician

> Your legs feel somewhat better

After I finish my biology homework I might continue an old game, so you can watch :P

12:51 AM

@Dennis How is it trivial in Pyth? Is there a built-in?

@Doorknob :D

minxomat

@DankMemes post is the third "your stars make no sense" in a few days which gets starred to heaven.

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wow

much star

At first glance they do make no sense. Once you can see the underlying matrix, it all becomes clear.

so amaze

...

I was in the middle of typing a message

and my laptop ran out of battery

because I forgot to plug it in and I ignored the low power warning kajigger

12:53 AM

So... you killed it.

Murderer

But he revived it...

Anyway. I was gonna say @AlexA., I'll probably have no idea what I'm doing cause I don't even remember when I started my last game. I might just #quit and start over if I have a savefile :P

That just means he's also some sort of messiah as well as a murderer.

Not necessarily a messiah.

All hail the murderous doorknob of life.

12:54 AM

Peter and Paul raised dead people too, and they weren't messiahs.

murder

@El'endiaStarman Peter Taylor?

I'm getting blamed for everything now, aren't I...

(amn't I?)

(why isn't "amn't" a word?)

@El'endiaStarman Well, if you believe in that sort of thing :)

@El'endiaStarman Did they raise dead people as their children?

@Geobits "...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is star here, star there..."