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Look at this abomination that someone posted in the comment section there: ⌈e⌉ = ⌊π⌋ This is … evil.

by _Microft 6y ago

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sigjuice 6y ago
How is it evil? To me, it is a mildly amusing coincidence.
- imglorp 6y ago
  Which is greater? e^pi or pi^e? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHD7zmLVa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHD7zmLVa8
UI_at_80x24 6y ago
⌈⌉ Characters like these remind me of the C64 and how they could be strung together to make graphics [ANSI/ASCII/NCURSES are close].
- rzzzt 6y ago
  There is a Unicode block dedicated to these symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block)
  - banana_giraffe 6y ago
    I'm always a little sad how poorly these can work: https://imgur.com/a/mCLZVwp https://imgur.com/a/mCLZVwp I'm sure there's some amount of font twiddling and changing to a different terminal that'll fix this, but using these characters out of the box is problematic.
    - UnquietTinkerer 6y ago
      For comparison (not trying to be argumentative!), it looks pretty good in gnome terminal on linux mint: https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png I only mention this because I've used these to decorate tables in my own notes in the past. It's not really worth the trouble, but I remembered being impressed with how nice these characters looked at the time. If anyone else wants to try it, paste this into a python REPL: print("\u250f\u2501\u2513\n\u2503 \u2503\n\u2517\u2501\u251b")
      - a1369209993 6y ago
        Yeah, this is purely a issue of poor support for box drawing characters by the font. Eg, I get: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAhAAAABQAQMAAAByCd6PAAAABlBM VEX///8AAABVwtN+AAABc0lEQVRYw+2YwWrEIBCGR5EyhR6k5LCHsvUx9iQ6t30n6dL3LmxnHDdx IadmoUtwAr/5M+OHRIUYgKeLJPKSlnvWBCu21yU8wJQgXuJrVRTFKH3YxdaoxUtXkiYIITAAKyJA Tvm16kn0lANUl1ujVh7PJYzw3s+jCGBSxkXRSB92pjVq5fFcwghEhFIOpQBNnmw6x6ooisaX6gxo oxZtV1ImcM4BEZIH4jr3JZmb4tFTdUdNNYuuKyEAa+2MQEJzxkX5ouqMpprFvoQR/ShYa+amivCK 8A3hK2IuYYS8C0qKcBRMxkXROKrOaKpZ7EsYITMiiPeK4InDRTFLH3ZZU81iX8IIWRclRXqDCFaW z6FqbErawp3FrqTA3Uq1K2phxfYKq4v9r9trxH7i8/qzD8QHXwMxEAMxEAMxEAPxFIjdfF+M2Glc tyO+94CQc+pGhJyWNyLkzL4RIX8ONiLk/8X/j+IB7+IBM/KAdfE8e2TbZv8FgJZ8r2PE1j8AAAAA SUVORK5CYII= Edit: how do I force HN to turn URLs into links? It usually does that automatically. Code-blocked for now.
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        Pinus 6y ago
        Is there a way for a font to "know" at what line spacing it is being rendered?
        rzzzt 6y ago
        I don't think it is controllable by the font; the only issue I can see if these lines and corners are not extended all the way to each character cell's bounding box.
ska 6y ago
not evil. mildly amusing, but also a demonstration/reminder of how both functions work. Assuming you have approximations of both in easy memory, which probably covers most of HN readership.
jameshart 6y ago
We need to bring in the other atoms of mathematics to really capture the transcendent beauty of this fundamental relationship: ⌈e⌉ 0 ——— = i ⌊π⌋
- nvader 6y ago
  I would buy this t-shirt.

Look at this abomination that someone posted in the comment section there: ⌈e⌉ = ⌊π⌋ This is … evil.

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sigjuice 6y ago

How is it evil? To me, it is a mildly amusing coincidence.

imglorp 6y ago
Which is greater? e^pi or pi^e? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHD7zmLVa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHD7zmLVa8

UI_at_80x24 6y ago

⌈⌉ Characters like these remind me of the C64 and how they could be strung together to make graphics [ANSI/ASCII/NCURSES are close].

rzzzt 6y ago
There is a Unicode block dedicated to these symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block)
- banana_giraffe 6y ago
  I'm always a little sad how poorly these can work: https://imgur.com/a/mCLZVwp https://imgur.com/a/mCLZVwp I'm sure there's some amount of font twiddling and changing to a different terminal that'll fix this, but using these characters out of the box is problematic.
  - UnquietTinkerer 6y ago
    For comparison (not trying to be argumentative!), it looks pretty good in gnome terminal on linux mint: https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png I only mention this because I've used these to decorate tables in my own notes in the past. It's not really worth the trouble, but I remembered being impressed with how nice these characters looked at the time. If anyone else wants to try it, paste this into a python REPL: print("\u250f\u2501\u2513\n\u2503 \u2503\n\u2517\u2501\u251b")
    - a1369209993 6y ago
      Yeah, this is purely a issue of poor support for box drawing characters by the font. Eg, I get: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAhAAAABQAQMAAAByCd6PAAAABlBM VEX///8AAABVwtN+AAABc0lEQVRYw+2YwWrEIBCGR5EyhR6k5LCHsvUx9iQ6t30n6dL3LmxnHDdx IadmoUtwAr/5M+OHRIUYgKeLJPKSlnvWBCu21yU8wJQgXuJrVRTFKH3YxdaoxUtXkiYIITAAKyJA Tvm16kn0lANUl1ujVh7PJYzw3s+jCGBSxkXRSB92pjVq5fFcwghEhFIOpQBNnmw6x6ooisaX6gxo oxZtV1ImcM4BEZIH4jr3JZmb4tFTdUdNNYuuKyEAa+2MQEJzxkX5ouqMpprFvoQR/ShYa+amivCK 8A3hK2IuYYS8C0qKcBRMxkXROKrOaKpZ7EsYITMiiPeK4InDRTFLH3ZZU81iX8IIWRclRXqDCFaW z6FqbErawp3FrqTA3Uq1K2phxfYKq4v9r9trxH7i8/qzD8QHXwMxEAMxEAMxEAPxFIjdfF+M2Glc tyO+94CQc+pGhJyWNyLkzL4RIX8ONiLk/8X/j+IB7+IBM/KAdfE8e2TbZv8FgJZ8r2PE1j8AAAAA SUVORK5CYII= Edit: how do I force HN to turn URLs into links? It usually does that automatically. Code-blocked for now.
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      - Pinus 6y ago
        Is there a way for a font to "know" at what line spacing it is being rendered?
        rzzzt 6y ago
        I don't think it is controllable by the font; the only issue I can see if these lines and corners are not extended all the way to each character cell's bounding box.

ska 6y ago

not evil. mildly amusing, but also a demonstration/reminder of how both functions work. Assuming you have approximations of both in easy memory, which probably covers most of HN readership.

jameshart 6y ago

We need to bring in the other atoms of mathematics to really capture the transcendent beauty of this fundamental relationship: ⌈e⌉ 0 ——— = i ⌊π⌋

nvader 6y ago
I would buy this t-shirt.