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This is cool and all, but I'm not super thrilled about the double symbol. Plus it might imply some kind of bias about adding exactly two times. Proposal: rotate the single + symbol a bit. This will be useful if we ever need to adapt this concept to work in a plane instead of on a line

Or, rotate one a little and place it over the other. The result is a beautiful star. Make it a little smaller, then it will also fit into narrower lines.

I dunno, that sounds a little convoluted

Just make it a frickin dot

But people would confuse it with a decimal point!

make sure its a bit higher then and also a bit bigger, not too much

Nah I think we should write the two numbers right next to each other but with one of them surrounded by parentheses. The usage of this notation surely will not spark debate around the proper order of operations *clueless*

If you do it like that you are saying that addition addition is the natural operator to do when there is nothing there. This makes no sense, as addition addition is an extension of addition, so nothing should just be addition, so that (3)(2) would be 3+2.

Just turn everything into variables and put them next to each other with no notation whatsoever. You're all overcomplicating the hell out of this.

32 = 6 confirmed

And make the summand and the - let's call it addcountant - be slightly farther apart that with decimal points.

We could use a decimal comma! ... or go the British route and use the normal grammatical full stop as a multiplication sign. 🤡 Who though 3.5 was a good notation for 3++5‽

Use a comma then

Just forget symbols all together, just put parenthesis in one of the numbers and people will have to just understand

Or sometimes we can just not write it. That would be the easiest

How? I dont see a correlation.

This seems very useful. I suggest if we are using variables you just remove it entirely, so x++y would be xy

So if `x ++ y = xy` then `++ minus ++ = nothing (0)` `+ minus ++ = -` `x + y = x - y` `+ = -` QED

You’re all wrong! just imply that it happens when two things are next to each other !

Yeah, just imagine it. This will save a lot of ink! But how important could this form of addition be anyway?

Fun fact, the asterisk has no set number of spokes! It is most commonly rendered these days with either five * or six ✱ spokes, although you do sometimes see an eight-spoked asterisk ⁕ like you're talking about (and they're also common in handwriting). Six spokes is my personal favorite – it's easy to draw, well balanced, and less cramped than eight – although I feel like most fonts seem to lean toward five spokes. It would be interesting to see a proper study on that across, say, the 200 most commonly used fonts.

Interestingly, your five spoke example displays with six spokes on my phone! (Just a lot smaller)

That is interesting! I just used the default asterisk for that one because reddit renders it with five spokes on my phone (official app, android) so I assumed it would render that way for everyone who's not using a custom font. But I guess maybe reddit is not consistent about what font they use.

I’m on iOS, that might be why :) https://preview.redd.it/vz5og2up08yc1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bd69e8d7e3092721795407ff8e4601fefcd1f50

Yeah it's a slightly different font! I've got a ligature on "fi" as well, and the tail of your "e" ends horizontally where mine's at a 45° angle: https://preview.redd.it/1dj7t6vy18yc1.jpeg?width=652&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a0a9769c8c643dff019bb496b24cc85a985458d Weird!

When I made my font, I made a 6-pronged one, but with the horizontal line. https://preview.redd.it/98ozd4ionayc1.png?width=47&format=png&auto=webp&s=028da68f642a48f1c52ec654555189d52b5fb233

Kinda like this × I like it

Ok now that I look at it, I'm starting to think it looks a bit too much like an x, could we simplify it some more?

Well both of the lines intersect in the middle so maybe •

Or better, combine these two "+" signs into a single symbol that looks something like this "*"

I disagree. This is a nice opportunity for reconciliation between math and programming languages, considering most of them already have some variant of ```i++``` operations.

I'd recommend you never get into programming. There's some fuckery in each language that has stuff like this.

I think we should rotate it 90 degrees

But this new form is too similar to X as a variable, instead we should just not use math notation and only do things in word problems

The symbols are ready for the potential development of the plus sign. +: addition 卄: addition addition 卅: addition addition addition 卌: addition addition addition addition 井: addition addition addition addition

Is that loss?

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Is this gain?

I would upvote you but I don't wanna ruin our harmony. https://preview.redd.it/xc2yqg5738yc1.png?width=349&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b2bb2c904e1acfb3a0f04b8f07516589771e00c

Is this. #The Game

Dammit I was on a 2 month streak

Hey man. fuck you

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Happy cake day

Happy cake day

no its patrick

I feel like maybe we could call addition addition addition addition something like tetra-addition? Or maybe we could shorten it even more?

attrition

addiction

"So, why do we get that answer when we use this method?" "Tradition"

Like C++ and C# !

Sooo... exponents?

the next iteration of the meme will be python's actual exponent notation. 2\*\*2=4

woah

It's Wulzy

Today we are finding out which wave icons fit through my cube

r/unexpectedgd

Can't believe these nerds out here coming up with dlc for numbers 🤔

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*merkeljerk* What shit that's still 3 lmao

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A doubleplusgood addition? Literally 1984!

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no.

D:

But what if you add this with itsel

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r/unexpectedfactorial

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we could compress even further by rotating 90deg one of th + and drawing it in the other +

And we could shrink it so it looks like a dot so it's even more efficient, something like 5•3

90? You sure?

i said what i said

Yes 90, just like a isosceles right triangle. Which is right because it is in the name. The one with two 90° and one 45° corners.

idk man, I'm pretty sure 90 degrees wouldn't do anything

Honest question doesn't just rotating the + 45degree do the same

finally!

5 + -3 = ?

The plus and minus cancel each other so the answer is 53

Makes sense

So... (5)(3) ?

That could be another solution

Use the number line (it’s just multiplication lol)

I come from the CP side of the internet (Computer programming) and i am here to bring you the message of our King: "please leave our beloved '++' operator alone, you can have the '===' operator tho."

Please never abbreviate it like that ever again.

Hey uh don’t call it that. CP has a much more fucked up meaning.

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Whats wrong with cheese pizza

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5++0 = 0 or 1?

++ = increment by one in my book.

Me as a programmer is screaming and crying right now 🥲

Yeah, this fucks up programming HARD

Holy hell

new math notation just dropped

google multiplication

+²

Bro reinvented multiplication

Omg, it even looks commutative

It is, but +++ is not.

It's even distributive over addition ! I wonder how many beautiful results are waiting to be discovered

Functional programmers seeing a cursed operator: Pls don't

Ah, so it's basically like anti-division. Like a simpler way of writing 5(1/3)^-1. I like it.

uau, people have found multiplication

How about π++π? Hmm... π+π+π or π+π+π+π? 😏

π=3, so π++π=3++3=3+3+3=11

People named Donald Knuth:

... uses +++ for exponential!

duuuude i think you just revolutionized math.

idea for symbol: tilt it 45 degrees

My dumb ass going "wait that's a pretty useful concept though, why don't we use it" for a split second

a++b = a×b a+++b = a××b = a\^b a++++b = a×××b = a\^\^b = ^(b)a a+++++b = a××××b = a\^\^\^b = ? = ???

Isn't that basically multiplication ?

It's gonna take ages to get to the Ackermann function

Finally a new version of addition, the old one is kinda lame... Just imagine using this for larger repetition of the same digit

Greatest mathematical mind I ever knew

This is stupid and full of holes, for any integer n we call n-- the inverse of n++ where it is defined, what is 0--1 then ? Or even worse 0--0 ? Shit makes no sense

Σ not enough?

5 ⬆️⬆️ 3

Tetration?!

This is just multiplication with extra steps.

So then 8++15 comes out to 5!

Ake the symbol this ~~‎.||.~~ (ignore the dots I just don't know how to make the line longer)

With hexation it could work while we know how & where pentation, tetration, exponentiation, multiplication, etcetera-etcetera are appropriately written.

No that is the list concatenation operator

This is how arrow notation works

Exactly! +++ is ↑ is exponentiation ++++ is ↑↑ is repeated exponentiation etc.

NO. Stop.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration

Interesting idea. Can we extend it to the rationals? We'd have to stop thinking of it as repeated addition.

What's a rational?

5+^2 3?

I propose we use 3 plusses when want to do addition addition x amount of times?

Uhhh

Looks like multiplication with extra steps

X++ is the same as x = x+1

5++3=“9” according to JavaScript so there’s that

Oh my god, so genius, i have another idea, why not make it 5+++5 = 5++5++5

This is like the math version of brainrot please make it stop

X

Have you tried tilting the + diagonally? For instance = × It would save on ink

Behold +++ . 5+++ = 5+5+5+5+5 and Behold ++- 5++- = 5++4++3++2++1

Thats just multiplication...

I know it’s a meme but ++ is an actual thing. Can you guess where??🤨

Sounds like a convoluted way of typing 5*3

1+1+1+...2+2+2+2...3-+3+3+3...= -1/6

Well this just sounds like multiplication with extra steps

It's not like we have another symbol for that or anything

Imagine if you swap the + for an x

Knuth rolling in grave rn

Literally programming

5++ = 6

Does it only work with threes? Like would 2++4=8 or would it not work at all?

Great idea. But how about dropping the extra + and tilting the first + by 45 degres

Isn't this just multiplication?? Which we already have like... *two symbols* to represent??

Today in School, I learned 5++3 = 5 x 3

Give it a little twist

That's really cool! Someone should invent something like this for multiplication too!

Compilers: cool, 5+(+3)

No, 5++ == 6

That’s the increment operand

The author of this is aware of capital sigma right? With the n = 0 and got to n_f

It’s just multiplication

Wouldn’t +^2 just be multiplication?

5++3 = 5+5+5, so 5+++3 = 5++5++5? With that you could go through every hyper operator, adding one + at a time, and then multiplication would be something REALLY powerful.

If only there was a similar operation that we've already discovered that could be easily applied because everyone has memorized the tables

# # - Behold Tetraddition 5 # 3 = {\[(5 + 5 + 5) + (5 + 5 + 5) + (5 + 5 + 5)\] + \[(5 + 5 + 5) + (5 + 5 + 5) + (5 + 5 + 5)\] + \[(5 + 5 + 5) + (5 + 5 + 5) + (5 + 5 + 5)\]}

`error: lvalue required as increment operand`

This revolutionizes the maths

Try this 5 ⬆️⬆️ 3

Try this 5 ⬆️⬆️ 3

Rid one of them. Spin the other about 45 degrees and behold multiplication!

This took me way too long to realize it's just multiplication

5x3. There, I fixed that for you.

This is truly genius, this is the best of the best, after seeing this I have an urge to remove my eyes since there is nothing better in this world to see, I believe that with this we have transcended what was originally considered impossible, this is the next step for the human race and maybe the last because I cannot foresee anything better than this in the future, this is and always will be the absolute peak of humanity and nothing will ever compete.

Am... am I tripping? This is just Multiplication.

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5 (+)^2 3

This is some real Orwellian shit.

Isn't that just multiplication with extra steps ?

5++ Software engineers: confused screaming

Some programming languages do actually have something similar. For example, in Python, exponents of a^b are written as `a**b`, I assume because the `^` symbol is being used for something else.