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Re: What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

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post #2

While the story at the end about the bug report is humourous, it's a pretty mean thing to do. Perhaps 3 days lost work was longer than the expected damage, but one would imagine it would waste at least a few hours of someone's time, which is not something I'd feel good about. On an unrelated note, sometimes using a computer not configured to British English I get spelling corrections for words like "humourous" above,…

Interestingly, while humor/humour is a US/British difference, humorous/humourous is not, the latter is just rare/unusual. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humour https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humourous

Ah I see, thanks, there are certainly better examples though, after a few minutes I found 'unshakeable'* which google tries to correct to the American version, yet is standard British English.

* https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=unshakeable (even makes the mistake on the UK Google site).

Re: What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

#25
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, it means differential.

While delta is technically wrong, it is correct in that dx represents delta x, where delta x tends to 0.

Delta x is represented as Δx

Re: What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

#26
post #20

I actually did find the "nightmare dilemmas" on the site more interesting. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/22/another-nightmare/ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Today’s Dilemma In front of you are two childless married couples. For some reason, it’s imperative that you kill two of the four people. Your choices are: A. Kill one randomly chosen member from each couple. B. Kill b…

Caring about someone often means disregarding their wishes - see the concepts of toughlove or intervention.

Re: What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

#29
post #20

I actually did find the "nightmare dilemmas" on the site more interesting. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/22/another-nightmare/ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Today’s Dilemma In front of you are two childless married couples. For some reason, it’s imperative that you kill two of the four people. Your choices are: A. Kill one randomly chosen member from each couple. B. Kill b…

I too found them more interesting. Is there a collection of these somewhere?

Re: What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

#30
post #20

I actually did find the "nightmare dilemmas" on the site more interesting. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/22/another-nightmare/ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Today’s Dilemma In front of you are two childless married couples. For some reason, it’s imperative that you kill two of the four people. Your choices are: A. Kill one randomly chosen member from each couple. B. Kill b…

I think there's some interpersonal utility comparisons in there.
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