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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 84 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Btw: the original Aladdin story had no three wishes rule.

Aladdin just spammed the heck out of wishes. Got everything he ever wanted.

The only part of the Disney movie that's accurate is when the sorcerer returns, teleports the Sultan (of China) palace to Africa, and Aladdin needs to use the weaker Genie of the Ring to steal the Genie of the Lamp back through trickery.

The princess of China (yeahhhhhh) helps Aladdin out a bit IIRC.

But yes, palace teleportation, sorcerer wishing to be Sultan, that's the legitimate part lol

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 49 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

It was me who wished everyone after me to be limited to three wishes

[–] don@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 weeks ago

I corrected your mistake with the first of my “3” wishes lol

[–] msprout@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'd kick your ass if I didn't spend all three of my wishes on churros from 7-11. :/

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The Disney genie was also just a scam. Aladdin explicitly wished to be a prince. Not look like a prince or be as rich as a prince or have a parade like a prince. But actually be one.

Instead he's revealed to be a 'fake prince' because the genie half assed his wish.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

"Eh, good enough, ticket closed"

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I always thought he was a "fake prince" because he was the prince of a country that didn't exist. Like, sure, you're the prince of this nonexistent country, see how far that gets you I guess. Otherwise Genie would either have to make new land out of nowhere somehow, or displace people who already lived/ruled in a location, which seems somewhat against the rules.

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it was impossible he shouldn't have accepted the wish. Aladdin already gets a wish rejected for not being possible. Fulfilling a wish with something different than what was wished for shouldn't be a thing.

And what does being a prince of a non-existent country even mean? That's still not a prince in any capacity (as confirmed by the story). It's just a scam.

Plus an easy way to accomplish this is just to make Aladdin the lost son of someone. It's a pretty common trope for royal kids to end up missing and raised as commoners, especially in Disney stories.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a fair point. I was thinking it was kinda like being the technical prince of the Ottoman empire or some other country that no longer exists - a neat factoid to talk about, but otherwise not really relevant.

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh good point. For a non-benevolent genie story, I suppose being made a prince of a defunct country would work. He would be a prince, but it wouldn't be good enough for what he wants to be a prince for (a good match for the princess). Yeah I see your angle now and that makes sense.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How so?

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 3 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, if killing a person or making them fall in love with you are against the rules, it seems that you're not meant to use wishes to fuck with people. Sure, Jafar does, but he's the villain - given Genie's good nature, I'd imagine he wouldn't let his wishes do that unless the wisher specifically forced it, which Aladdin wouldn't do.

Fucking with people by making them suddenly be a citizen of a completely new country, or suddenly not be the ruler of the country they previously ruled would probably be something Genie would avoid, and Aladdin wouldn't press him on it, even if it's not specifically covered under the quick list of rules Genie gave.

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Next you'll tell me Hercules wasn't a demigod because he drank all but one drop of the humanification juice after he was stolen from Zeus, the ever-faithful husband.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

While Hercules is impressively wrong, I knew Aladdin was a fun original read when it began with 'In the Far East Kingdom of China....'

Hercules, for all of its faults, actually takes place in Greece. Which is kinda sorta close to Rome (Hercules is his Roman name lol. Heracles is his Greek name).

On the other hand, Aladdin might be a fake story all together. As in, some French Guy may have made up Aladdin as part of his translation of 1001 Arabian Nights. IIRC, Arabs don't know wtf that story is doing in the (French) book.

So Aladdin might be an entirely fake addition to the 1001 Arabian Nights novel. Canonically fake. So it's in the true spirit of Aladdin (and 1001 Arabian Nights) to screw with the story anyway.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

I love when fanfic gets canonized by public consensus.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

"accurate"

[–] brachypelmide@lemmy.zip 59 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

unexpectedfactorial:
"Wish granted! You have 1 wish!"

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 weeks ago

Whispering:

make it 0
[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 37 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

But 0!=1, what am I missing here?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Genie grants the wish, and then deducts one from the pool of remaining wishes.

Edit 1: And it is implied that the Genie stored the number of remaining wishes as an eight bit unsigned integer, where subtracting one from zero gives 255.

It is worth noting that unsigned integer subtract-from-zero exploits were common in video games from around the time that Disney's Aladdin was released.

Edit 2: No discussion of amusing subtract-from-zero bugs is complete without a link to Nuclear Gandhi. (Even though it is now believed not to have been a subtract-from-zero bug.)

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

He is saying factorial of zero, so more a math nerd than a computer nerd.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is why math nerds prefer to talk in a dull tone. The least bit of excitement, and your equation is suddenly wrong.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yes. I caught the factorial reference, but wanted to address the question, in case it was also in earnest.

[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Its a quirk in binary math with 8 digits. If you "roll the odometer" past 0, it resets to 255

 0000 0011 (3)
-0000 0001 (1)
=0000 0010 (2)

 0000 0000 (0)
-0000 0001 (1)
=1111 1111 (255)
[–] Minizarbi@jlai.lu 16 points 4 weeks ago

I think you missed the joke

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not only is 0 != 1, but also 0! = 1.

sadly I don't know which one you mean :D

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't see how the vacuously true statement 0 != 1 has any relevance here.

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[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Make it -1 you mean. 0 is still a valid uint_8

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 30 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

-1 comes from the wish to make the total 0.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 24 points 4 weeks ago

but they asked for 0! = 1 wishes, so it should be 1 - 1 = 0 wishes remaining, and not 0 - 1 = -1

sorry, but i had to !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Updating the balance after granting the wish is bad practice. This genie is begging for a reentrancy attack.

[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If the genie knows the wish counter automatically decrements after every wish execution, he should set the wish counter to 1 to fullfill a total of 0 wishes. But since he's a genie I'm sure he has unrestricted rights to modify the wish counter.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Plot twist: The dialogue for "You have X wishes!" was not written beyond 3, so he now overflows into unused memory and just screams incoherent garbage at you.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

  • Wish 1: Wish for the numeric rule to operate in 64-bit unsigned integer space.

  • Wish 2: wish for 0 wishes.

  • Wish 3: Wish for minus 1 Wish.

Result: now be left with 1.8446744073709551616*10^19 Wishes.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta wish for a 64-bit genie.

[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 weeks ago

For a moment I read it as 0! (zero factorial) and was super confused.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be -1, not 0?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Depends. If the wish counter decrements after fulfilling the wish, then it works.

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Missingno appears.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

0 = 0!

[–] sga@lemmings.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

it is what it would appear to be using the logic that n! = n*(n-1)*...*1, but 0! was "chosen" to be 1

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

  • Wish 1: "I wish that my third wish will retroactively become my first wish instead, but I retain all memories from every timeline."

  • Wish 2: "I wish that every wish I've made after my first wish never happened, except for my memories of them."

  • Wish 2b: Genie... i've come to bargain..." user proceeds to enforce temporal paradox type 1a 'causal-loop' until 'negotiation leveraging favorable terms' for infinite wishes without the monkeys paw BS is complete

  • Wish 3: "I wish to break this cycle and return to normal linear time, keeping all accumulated memories."

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wish1: I whish to live through various alternate realities of my choosing until I want to stop; I want to retain only the memories of it.

FTFY.

Now you've got two more wishes free for other stuff.

You're welcome.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I'm having UFO: Enemy Unknown flashbacks.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ah, turns out that all genies use the same code as nuclear gandhi.

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