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59 minutes agoIt's probably the oldest and most ubiquitous substance addiction in the history of human kind, so a lot of cultures have tons of ideology around it baked in.
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·2 hours agoMath kind of relies on assumptions, you really can't get anywhere in math without an assumption at the beginning of your thought process.
That's a decimal approximation of Pi with an ellipsis at the end to indicate its an approximation, not a definition. The way the ellipsis is used above is different. It's being used to define a number via the decimal expansion by saying it's an infinite sum of negative powers of 10 defined by the pattern before the ellipsis.
So we have:
0.101001000100001000001 . . . = 10^-1 + 10^-2 + 10^-3 + 10^-4 +10^-5+ . . .
Pi, however, is not defined this way. Pi can be defined as twice the solution of the integral from -1 to 1 of the square root of (1-x^2), a function defining a unit semi-circle.
Implicitly defining a number via it's decimal form typically relies on their being a pattern to follow after the ellipsis. You can define a different number with twos in it, but if you put an ellipsis at the end you're implying there's a different pattern to follow for the rest of the decimal expansion, hence your number is not the same number as the one without twos in it.
It's implicitly defined here by its decimal form:
0.101001000100001000001 . . .
The definition of this number is that the number of 0s after each 1 is given by the total previous number of 1s in the sequence. That's why it can't contain 2 despite being infinite and non-repeating.
·2 days agoSt. Luigi: Ghost of Christmas yet to Come
Three Eyed Dirt_Owl: Ghost of Christmas present
I suppose we're going to see you visited by the Ghost of Christmas past tonight if all goes according to prophecy.
I was planning on it, but then I ran all outta booze on Christmas eve instead oops
I think the biggest difference is that alcohol is insanely easy to make in comparison to essentially all other drugs. You can literally make the stuff in US prisons with the very selective food items prisoners are allowed to have.
Cannabis for most of history required available fertile land and a specific climate to grow, so it was much easier to stigmatize the substance by stigmatizing the people connected to that land.