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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is useful for those trying to convey more precisely the amount of fucks they give.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's mainly limited to the American South.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You’re thinking of the fucks relatives, or also known in scientific circles as The Alabamian Constant (TAC for short).

[–] kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nice try but no proof yet if the fuckery field is irrational.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, there's definitely irrational fucks. I don't see a proof that there's indeed a fuckomorphism between C and F, though.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah, just look at the folks over in HR. Irrational fucks to a person. Though I suppose all that means is that there are some irrational elements in the set, not necessarily that it's isomorphic to the field of complex numbers. So can we diagonalize fuckery somehow...?

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

Here, I gotchu:

The phrase "you stupid fuck" Implies the existence of irrational fucks.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So what’s their opinion on the holy fuck?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Must be an angel with wings, so they can also have a flying fuck.

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[–] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The holy trinity.

Fucking God Damn, Jesus Fucking Christ and Holy Fuck.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

No idea, but I do see plenty of evil fucks every day on the news.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are definitely positive and negative fucks

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 21 points 1 month ago

This does not even scratch the surface of the possible uses and variations of fuck.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago

∅ = how many i have left to give.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What in the fucking fuck?! is a good one, too. Has some real what in tarnation? energy to it.

I also learned that FUCKING GOD!! is my go-to expletive when I spilled some icecream and my daughter (3 at the time) started yelling it in the car.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

'What in the fucking fuck' implies that fucking is an injective function over the field of fucks.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

From this we can infer that there is a complex function homomorphic to fucking 🤔

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Would plain old "What the Fuck" imply a null set?

[–] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No prove of irrational fucks yet tho

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plenty of empirical evidence around.

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[–] Entitle9294@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, everyone but me seems to get it, so I'll ask. I get everything but the last bit. What does "isomorphic with the complex field" mean? I think I know what isomorphic means from some dabbling I've done in category theory.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In means you can map every element bijectively to one from the complex field AND addition and multiplication can be performed in either field without leading to contractions, i.e. a+b=c <=> f(a)+f(b)=f(a+b)=f(c) and equivalent for multiplication. This is the part that the meme fails to consider, because nowhere is addition or multiplication for this novel field defined.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 weeks ago

"i do not give a single fuck" implies an additive identity fuck, and "I don't give two fucks" implies a multiplicative identity fuck. That's a start at least!

[–] Entitle9294@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll give this some attention when time permits because this does not make things clearer, lol.

I'll start with what a field is and a complex field 🤞

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

ELI5: it means that for every number there's a matching fuck and vice versa.

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[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which implies the existence of a non god affected fucks.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Given the overwhelming prevalence of holy fucks relative to damned fucks, does this suggest sanctified beings get laid more?

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

Idk, there's so much talk about virgins in heaven, you'd think it's the opposite!

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

I fucking love this

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

fan-fucking-tastic

[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Okay but is the fuck a monoid in the category of endofunctors ?

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The fuck transcends our ability to capture its essence

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Euler's fuck formula.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

I’ve always loved ladies who are smarter / better educated than me.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What the uncomputable fuck

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

fucking fucks implies fucks are procreating.

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[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucks can also have a social hierarchy, as evidenced by the phrase:

"I don't give a single solitary fuck"

[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 3 points 4 weeks ago

These are are simply unitary fucks. Matrix fucks with eigenvalue absolute value of 1. Surprisingly useful for quantum computing applications.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I see this comment section is full of various operations defined on fuckery. I don't think they form a field or even a ringi

Perspective changes the reality around it.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I actually tend to treat fucks like the constant C in calculus. Ideally it should cancel out entirely and you should give the minimal amount of fucks in all of your final answers.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I prefer to solve the Hodge conjecture

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The real question is - is fuck Turing-complete?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's actually a beautiful language for arguing about computability because of how similar it is to a theoretical turning machine in that it possesses a read/write head that can move left and right on an infinite band. It's also incredibly simple to simulate using any other language of choice, including assembly and heck, even raw logic gates.

In this essay I will explain why Brainfuck should be the first language taught to computer science majors.

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