#naught

[janmisali]

Number Tournament: ZERO vs THE IMAGINARY UNIT (The Championship Match)

[link to all polls]

0 (zero; naught)

seed: 4 (60 nominations)

previous opponent: negative one

class: additive identity

biography: one of the most revolutionary numbers in all of mathematics, and not just because of its rotund symbol.

the notion of "nothingness" as a number in and of itself rather than merely as a placeholder was discovered independently in many parts of the world at many different times, particularly in cultures that used forms of positional notation (ie. writing numbers in a way where every symbol has some numerical value, and its position within a number indicates that the value is multiplied by some power of a "base", often ten). due to its strange nature as a number with no value, many properties that are often taken for granted with other numbers do not apply to zero.

in the Number Tournament, zero has beaten some incredibly iconic numbers seemingly effortlessly. fifteen, thirty-six, sixty-four, the golden ratio, and negative one were all no match for naught. it is truly a force to be reckoned with.

zero is a number associated with emptiness, with the void, as well as with new beginnings. it is one of the foundations of all of mathematics, and it is certainly one of the best numbers.

[Wikipedia article]

i

seed: 11 (46 nominations)

previous opponent: NaN

class: imaginary

biography: another groundbreaking number, discovered much more recently than zero. much like zero, in its earliest uses i (the imaginary unit) was considered more of placeholder than a number in its own right, as the name "imaginary number" might suggest.

the imaginary numbers (and the complex numbers they are a part of) were born as an elegant solution to a practical problem, and they've persisted as a tool for modeling things in the physical world, no less real than the "real numbers". complex numbers are useful for "translating" statements about shapes into statements about numbers, and vice versa. they are crucial to the Fourier transform, which itself is a vital part of signal processing and many areas of physics.

in the Number Tournament, i faced off against a series of increasingly tougher challengers: forty-seven, twenty-seven, e, two, and Not a Number, each race closer than the last. i fought hard to get here, and we're all very proud of it for making it this far.

i is associated with the mathematical tradition of taking "you can't do that" as a challenge, and with thinking outside of the box. it is a fundamental component of our modern understanding of the world, and it is certainly one of the best numbers.

[Wikipedia article]

#number tournament #polls #math #mathblr #zero #naught #0 #i #imaginary numbers #complex numbers #jan misali

[ex-textura]

a small presentation on how my game went tonight btw. Gale is. rethinking some life choices i think.

#no. regrets. #i'm so sorry Gale I'm SO sorry T_T #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #naught #naught but ruin #if you see a dead spider; you must lick it #it's in the song

[lexxieamoursweets]

Moody ask me what I want? 🥰🤪🍆🍆

#daddy's good girl #naught #whatever #bigger is better #love #home #choices

[ikayblythe]

i cant be the only one who played this game right. right

#digital art #artwork #art #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #original art #video game fanart #naught #naught game #it was an old indie platformer by blueshadow games (now wildsphere iirc) #it was unique to me bc of its gimmick being gravity based platforming #twist your whole phone around w the gyroscope n all that #i love atmospheric platformers with their singular eyeball guides and vaguely catlike protags #ofc naught is an actual cat. kinda #also one of the bosses is a fucking squid and that ROCKS

[lostuserr]

#max steel #maxsteel #jason naught #naught #art #sketch #idk

[black-cat-showdown]

Black Cat Showdown Round 1

#black cat tournament #cat poll #competition #round 1 #naught #transformers #ravage

[boxwinebaddie]

Uncle Nina, will you pleeeeease do more Jersey Kyle voiceover?

OOOOUGH MY GOD ASHKLAHSAs.

this is so...

Yes...Absolutely.

this is my secret passion. i did not know what to read so here is this. i'm allowing this to live on my blog just for tonight, so please enjoy your cringe while it lasts. i am not a voice actress. i simply live to please and i live, laugh, love to do the jersey kyle accent, lmaoooo.

-uncle nina ( secretly jersey )

#this is so funny to me i'm sorry #i love giving the people what they want #amazing content #live laugh cringe #Cheers! <3 Mazel! :) #is so funny to me everytime #STEEANN #nAUGHT #cRimInA LAuR #AySHOLE #fAK AWHFF

[nothingplusthings]

Mebbe yer here cause ya figured I might have a wholly unexpected change of heart and all of a sudden start speaking of objects and things, castles of sand and pigs on the wing. Well ya figured wrong.

#nil #nada #naught #zip #zilch #0 #fnord #Dante #{ :- |

[janmisali]

Number Tournament: Final Results

congratulations to zero!

and a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the Number Tournament! full disclosure, I fully expected 69-420 to be the final match, so I'm very proud of everyone for showing a preference near-universally for more interesting numbers, allowing some of the strangest numbers in the tournament to make it much farther than expected.

as much as it saddens me to see the imaginary unit defeated after coming so far, zero's performance throughout the tournament was so consistently outclassing every number it went up against, this really couldn't have turned out any other way.

anyway, that's the end of the Number Tournament. I'll be posting some analysis soon, and I'll definitely get back to posting my usual fun one-off poll ideas, but I don't think I'll be doing another big bracket like this any time soon.

#number tournament #polls #math #mathblr #zero #naught #jan misali

[ex-textura]

My friend and I have been coming up with quest names for our various tavs (a la The Pale Elf and The Wizard of Waterdeep) and actually I'm having a little too much fun with it. So here's my list:

Auric - The Golden Brother

Naught - A Kindness of Ravens

Ciaran - The Silent Songbird

Jinx - The Wild Magician

Amaris - The Mirrored Moon

#feel free to rb with your own! #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #auric #naught #ciaran finch #oc: jinx #oc: amaris #my ocs

[sodemz]

NAUGHT!! i love this game sm ^_^

i decided to make some art of it :) jst for fun

#naught game #naught #lost media #old games #forgotten games #sodemz

[thehargreevesfam]

Does anyone have any predictions for s4?? I tried to think of some but I’m coming up completely blank

#there are sooo many possibilities #they was season 3 finished was very open ended #way* #but also. it was much easier to predict s2 from the s1 cliffhanger #or s3 from the s2 one #because there were clues sprinkled throughout the season #the story flowed so much better #AND we had the comics #like for example. with how s2 ended we know that Reginald unadopted them #there’s another academy because of their tomfoolery in the 60s #they were going to have a fight scene in that first episode because they’re all assholes and the hargreeves are annoying #Allison grieving her daughter and basically going through it #I’ve heard some people predicted that the hargreeves would go to the 60s in s2 because of the comics #so like. we KNEW stuff #we were so certain #but s4?? nothing #nada #zilch #naught #zero #the umbrella academy #okay wait I’ve got one #so allison will fight to protect whatever reality she’s created with ray and Claire #even though she knows deep down this reality shouldn’t be so

[wisdomfish]

Say not, ‘The struggle naught availeth; the labor and the toils are vain. The enemy shrinks not, nor faileth. As things have been, so they remain.’ For if hopes be dupes, then fears be liars. It may be even now, your comrades in yon smoke concealed, chase the fliers – and, but for you, possess the field. ~ Hugh Clough

#naught #zero #vain #dupe #comrades

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Lullaby of woe, Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski

#the witcher #the witcher 3 #lullaby of woe #blood and wine #quote #spooky #creepy #halloween #october #mine #horror #przybyłowicz #mikolai stroinski #ghouls #hags #wraiths #heartache #woe #naught #fear