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[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Although Frankfurt doesn't have them, this exists:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram-train

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What's a witchi and why should we burn Heri? What did Heri do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was sadly raised due to the high number of crashes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Your account name is me trying to spell Dijkstra

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Like the previous N times? 😴

Everyone is so afraid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don't get what you're saying. Why wouldn't floor 0 be in the building if we started assigning numbers to floors?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Yes, but I was talking about assigning numbers from a logical perspective, not a conventional one.

Also, why is it called B1 for the first basement floor but not E1 (for elevated) for the floor above ground floor?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (20 children)

You are completely wrong.

Imagine assigning to each floor a whole number.

Every time you go down a floor, the number should be decremented by 1, every time you go up a floor the number should be incremented by 1.

In order to get symmetry, floor 0 should be the ground floor - not floor 1. What maniac would assign floor 0 to the first basement floor?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

But the first few values are:

1 + 1/3 + 1/6 + 1/10 + 1/15 + 1/21 + 1/28...

I really don't see any pattern there showing why it converges to 2 exactly

Edit:

After thinking some more, you could write the sum as:

(Sum from n=1 to infinity of): 2/(n * (n + 1))

That sum is smaller than the sum of:

2 * (1/n^2^) which converges to π^2^/3

So I can see why it converges, just not where to.

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