toddlers are bad at threats. "If you carry me I'll stop [walking]!"

???

@cairdcoinheringaahing what are you gonna do there? a lot of maths I hope?

@flawr I am :P Got accepted into a masters program in maths

@cairdcoinheringaahing oh congrats:)

Thanks :P

did you already have to pick some specialization?

No, not yet. First year is just general math

I think the specialisation begins in second year, then ramps up in third and then you write your dissertation in fourth

this is a 4 year program??

is this common?

For masters courses, yeah

here the masters are usually 1.5 - 2 years (if you're studiyng full time)

Undergrad bachelors are generally 3 years, this is a "straight to masters" course (I got accepted into it out of HS), so the course is extended by a year

huh, didn't know this was a thing:)

I think masters are typically 1 or 2 years here as well, if you've already got a graduate bachelors degree

@flawr I actually didn't realise it was a masters course (thought it was a bachelors) until after I got accepted and the email said "Congratulations on getting accepted into your masters course" :P

I thought bologna was supposed to standardize things like that but apparently (well I knew that before) it didn't really succeed

@cairdcoinheringaahing hehe but that's great:)

:P

@flawr I haven't officially chosen anything, but I'm pretty interested in abstract algebra and analysis, so I'm likely to choose one of those

both of them are vast topics, I guess your gonna have to pick some more specialized things in the end:)

Well, I've studied both a decent amount, but not enough to make a full choice about which sub-topic I think I'd prefer. Complex analysis is something I'd like to learn more about (I know painfully little), and properties of binary operators are fascinating

wait a gold-badge hammer o.O been a while since i've seen one of those

also hi flawr :D

Congratulations on your gold badge @cairdcoinheringaahing!

@cairdcoinheringaahing Wow, awesome. So now we have the student becomes the master IRL :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing I hope you'll also get some nice number theory courses

@user I got that a few months ago, I just haven't used it that much :P

the good old dupe hammer

or, depending on who you ask, the bad old dupe hammer

Honestly, I wasn't too happy with the choice. The challenge is a partial dupe of about 4 different challenges, but isn't a full dupe of any

@totallyhuman How could hammers ever be bad?

@flawr Number theory is interesting, but as soon as you get to the proofs it's hard :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing Oh I see, I just noticed it :P

Well, datetime challenges are... datetime challenges

@user personally, there have been times where i've hammered something that i would've liked a second opinion on

@cairdcoinheringaahing but they are beautiful, in contrast to the proof in many analysis subjects

and I'm completely unbiased in that

@user 3 months ago to be exact :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing if you want you can always change the dupe list to include other partial dupes

or, if you can't i can - though I think the privilege is rewarded with the dupe hammer and not with the diamond

@hyper-neutrino hi:) and also bb I need to leave! cu!

@flawr idk, a lot of the answers to questions under the intergration tag on Math.SE are elegant

o/

@hyper-neutrino Not now it's deleted

And undeleted

@cairdcoinheringaahing not anymore

@hyper-neutrino Interesting, I never noticed the "edit" link at the top right side of the dupe box until now

@hyper-neutrino Do you see a deleted comment by me on that question?

two, in fact

the horror

Two?

it seems that saying "closed" and linking the question that you then closed the challenge as a duplicate of prompted community to decide your comment was no longer needed

One is the "I'm closing as dupe" one, which is annoyingly deleted

and when you close something as a duplicate, it also creates the standard "Does this answer your question?" comment

Could you undelete that? I'd like my reasoning to be public

and then immediately deletes it because you have a hammer

and the message isn't helpful on CGCC in the first place

ಠ_ಠ

@cairdcoinheringaahing done

Thanks :)

I try to always leave a comment when I VTC (unless someone else has done so, or if obvious), and it annoys me when SE auto deletes some of those

yeah...

The dupe decision can be controversial though, as Ian H sandboxed it later than l4m2 but posted to main first

for hammering you can probably just comment after, but if you VTC and aren't the last, it's annoying if you want the reason to stick around after as well

Yeah, that's unfortunate

It happens from time to time that someone ninja's something in the Sandbox, I think closing as dupe is unfortunate but necessary

i think it's quite similar to this too as Arnauld points out - in fact, maybe more so than this target

@hyper-neutrino That was one, and "Legendary" was another I was looking at

Legendary is less relevant as it involves waiting not calculating, but the main task IMO is the same: find the seconds from running to a given time, do something with the seconds (wait vs print)

Partially relevant:

Hmm

but if you have a different fitting dupe target, then I have no objection to that

I also (personally) think the open one is more interesting, and would rather that stay open

But I'll concede it's a close call on multiple fronts with this, if it's reopened, I won't disagree (but I won't reopen it either)

Codidact has made upvotes on Code Golf questions worth 10 reputation (instead of 5), meaning that multiple users just got a solid increase in rep :P

I'm implementing a function in Python that takes two values and returns a generator for an inclusive range (e.g. my_func(3,5) is equivalent to range(3,6)). It also accepts floating point infinity as an upper bound (e.g. my_func(3,float('inf')) is equivalent to itertools.count(3)). Question: What should I name this function?

I would call it inclusive_range, except that technically a range to infinity cannot be inclusive, by definition.

infinite_inclusive_range?

optionally_infinite_inclusive_range? Hmm

inclusive_or_infinite_range?

unbounded_range?

Okay, that's more like it.

to_infinity_and_beyond

That's the function you need for enumerating the set of real numbers. /s

Argh, but "unbounded" doesn't sound right when my arguments are named lower_bound and upper_bound...

In Factor you could name it [a..b?] :P

range_from might make sense if you made the second arg completely optional

@Bubbler Yeah, I'm sure there's some language where that behavior is just called range. I'm in Python-land, though, where ranges are half-exclusive and infinity is barely acknowledged.

(so range_from(3) instead of range_from(3, float('inf')))

@DLosc The joke was that you can use any arbitrary char in an identifier, not just alphanumerics

@Bubbler I don't like that option because in my code I'd have to special-case every time I used it. I have a data structure with (lower_bound, upper_bound) tuples in it, and I want to be able to apply a single function to each tuple, whether the upper_bound is finite or not.

@Bubbler Ah, I see. :)

Same with tinylisp, though I tended to stick to lowercase letters and hyphens for library function names.

range_that_is_inclusive_except_if_the_right_argument_is_infinity