Inverse Capitalism

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• Haven

  2015-03-13 10:25:03

  Let me tell you. About Fallen London.

  invell$
• Princess Alice

  2015-03-13 14:03:12

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I wish the superscript function worked so I could do "capitalism^-1" with proper formatting

  
  

  It loses something with the caret, I think
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-03-14 14:57:57

  but that's just the reciprocal, not the inverse
  
  the inverse would be arccapitalism
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-03-14 14:58:23

  WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE NOTATED AS A SUPERSCRIPT -1 BECAUSE THAT JUST MAKES IT CONFUSING, YOU FUCKERS
  
• Princess Alice

  2015-03-14 15:07:32

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Superscript -1 for inverse is used in a lot of contexts, though, not just inverse trig functions
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-03-14 15:10:54

  but trig functions are the only ones with standard notation of writing powers in the same way
• Princess Alice

  2015-03-14 15:14:34

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Yeah, but, you know, context!

  
  

  Nobody in their right mind is going to write 1/sin(x) as sin^-1(x) because they know that means something else. Besides, you could just write 1/sin(x) as csc(x).
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-03-14 15:31:44 edited 2015-03-14 15:33:33

  or i could simply avoid all ambiguity and write 1 / sin(x) and csc(x) and arcsin(x)
  
  also it's faster to write arcsin than sin-1, surprisingly, because cursive