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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago

xkcd #3289: Highway Signs

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xkcd #3289: Highway Signs

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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago
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xkcd #3289: Highway Signs

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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car’s gas tank is 1.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3289/

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  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    22 days ago

    It’s less about math itself feeling wrong and more about doing a string operation to get a math result

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      22 days ago

      Ah, okay, I got it. I love doing string operations to get math results tho, especially when programming.

      I could use logarithms… or I could len(str(n))-1

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