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[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] xkbx@startrek.website 36 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

So 50% of 50 is the same as 50% of 50. Both equal 5

[–] blx@piefed.zip 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Both equal 5

More like 5 of these

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Who am I to disagree

Who am I to disagree?

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] virku@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

0! is 0.

Edit. I remembered wrong. Keeping it like this as it is funnier that way.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

factorials are mostly encountered in combinatorics, which is problems like, how many ways are there to put 3 objects of different colors in a row? well, the first can be any of the 3, the second can be either of the other 2, and the last is whichever 1 is left, so 3×2×1=3!=6

so how many ways are there to put 0 objects in a row? well there's 1, it's this one:


that's why 0!=1

[–] virku@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, that was a really great explanation! Thanks! I could have needed this twenty years ago and maybe we wouldn't have had this interaction.

[–] aaa@piefed.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] virku@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] aaa@piefed.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Caught me by complete surprise too, when I first learned it. It’s undefined in most areas of math, I think, but in some it’s just following the convention, it seems:

  • 4^2^ = 16,
  • 4^1^ = 4,
  • n^0^ = 1,
  • 0 x 0 = 0
[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on context.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Your math is revolutionary.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Multiplication is commutative.

50% of 6 == 50/100 x 6 == (50 x 6)/100 == 50 x 6/100 == 6% of 50.

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

taking x% is just multiplying by x/100, and multiplication is commutative. x% of y is just y×x×1/100, which is the same as x×y×1/100

you can also ignore the % and divide by 100 at the end. for example, what's 5% of 5? that might take a minute to work out. what's 25/100? you instantly know it's 1/4

Percentages can be expressed as multiplication and multiplication is commutative (the order doesn't matter).