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Laura, she/him. Fan of psych, supernatural, the office, the 100, D&D, white collar, parks and rec, grimm, severance, cosmere and many more
In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere’s first new number system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.
Today’s numerical world is dominated by the Hindu-Arabic decimal system. This system, adopted by almost every society, is what many people think of as “numbers”—values expressed in a written form using the digits 0 through 9. But meaningful alternatives exist, and they are as varied as the cultures they belong to.

From the article! For anyone struggling, the placements go 1’s, 20’s, 400’s, 8,000’s, 160,000’s, etc. Take each placement and multiply it by 20 to get the next one! (The Hindu-Arabic system goes 1’s, 10’s, 100’s, 1,000’s, 10,000’s, 100,000’s, for reference)

How they got 24,516 from here really confused me until I broke it down, so I’ll do the same for others!

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The first numeral represents 4, and it’s in the 8,000’s place, which means it represents 24,000. This system doesn’t have a dedicated 10,000’s place, which means the amount of individual numerals will be smaller. Next we have the numeral representing 1, and it’s in the 400’s place, meaning it represents 400.

This means so far we have 24,400, meaning we still have 116 left to write. We can’t put 400 into 100 without using fractions, which we don’t want in our integer system by definition, so we instead look to the 20’s place. The most amount of 20’s we can fit into 116 without fractions is 5, which is why the symbol for 5 is there. This just leaves 16 for the 1’s position!

We can look at it in terms of “number we write”(place value). 24,516 = 3(8,000) + 1(400) + 5(20) + 16(1)!

I highly encourage everyone to read the article and look into this, this is revolutionary.

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

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Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

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Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

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i’ve mixed cranberry mikes harder and cucumber lime gatorade into a drink i like to call “the flavor” because like. you drink this shit and your tongue is like “there’s a taste here. you are experiencing a flavor” but when you go to open the door there’s no flavor there. it comes back with an undefined error in the flavor column. it’s the missingno of flavors. it so absolutely and definitely tastes like something and that thing is nothing.

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this advice is too late for the person I was going to give it to so I'll just say it in its own post

caffeine on a full stomach makes me feel the mirth and excitement of a noble who was challenged to a duel by a scrawny peasant (specifically, a peasant who does not know that royalty may select a champion in their stead)

caffeine on an empty stomach makes me feel like that noble's inbred son with every disease, Piotr the Bewitched, who everyone is independently trying to assassinate

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And what's the advice?

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mix caffeine and other stimulants on an empty stomach to fill your limit gauge and defeat challenging boss encounters

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reasons new pickup trucks suck:

  • the beds are at best no bigger, and often smaller, than older models
  • heavier = less efficient
  • higher bumpers make them less compatible with most other vehicles, therefore more dangerous in a collision
  • higher tailgates make them harder to load
  • higher hoods give them an enormous blindspot in the front
  • higher center of gravity makes them less stable
  • higher seats give the driver a worse view of their immediate surroundings
  • higher bumpers also make them more likely to collide with a pedestrian's chest as opposed to their legs, as well as making the victims more likely to go under the car, leading to more deaths

oh also market research suggests people who buy trucks and SUVs are more likely to be assholes lmao

basically, watch this video if you need more reasons to hate trucks:

As a matter of fact, if your employer fires you for anything relating to forming a union, that’s retalition, and it’s illegal under federal law. If this happens to you, vontact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

clownfish be like "i know a spot" and take you to a fucking deadly sea organism

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This post would’ve been a lot better if you didn’t say the f word. Grow up.

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