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How does one generate a negative number of products?
by ythn 9y ago
How does one generate a negative number of products?
- coding123 9y agoWhat if number of products = -0.000..(infinite zeroes)..1 Would that be both 0 and less than 0? there's got to be something wrong here. :)
- kgreene2 9y agoA bit off topic, but you're missing that the number you mentioned doesn't exist. What you're describing is an infinitesimal value, or, the largest negative number. This number doesn't exist in the reals. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/455639/what-is-the-meaning-of-infinitesimal https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/455639/what-is-the-... https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-smallest-positive-real-number https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-smallest-positive-real-numb...
- coding123 9y agoNot real? See just like magic leaps products! ;)
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- BuildTheRobots 9y agoAt least an amount of people would say that the demos are a sham - that'd be one way of generating negative products.
- klearvue 9y agoApologies for correcting but it's "a number of people", not "an amount". "People" are countable.
- BuildTheRobots 9y agoPedantry at it's best, but I can honestly say that I've learnt something :) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/amount-of-number-of-or-quantity-of http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/amou...
- vernie 9y agoHey at least a few VFX houses got paid.
- throwanem 9y agoIf n_products = (claimed products that do exist) - (claimed products that don't exist), maybe. Of course, no one knows whether Magic Leap actually has a product, so there's that...