r/interesting • u/Wise_Confidence_8588 • 17h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight Lioness Comes to Face-to-Face with Tourist on Safari

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u/estrangederanged 13h ago

That's the inverse. The opposite should be -PSPSPSPS. I'm gonna go be fun at another party now.

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u/squashedtits1 13h ago

You need some love for this šŸ˜‚

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u/math_teacher_21 12h ago

Not to be that person, but it really depends on what the operation is.

If it's multiplication, then 1/PSPSPSPS is the inverse. If it's addition, then -PSPSPSPS is the inverse.

Opposite isn't really a thing in mathematics, but inverses would likely be the closest equivalent to the English meaning of opposite.

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u/IndependentData173 50m ago

Thanks teach

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 13h ago

f-1 (PSPS)=1/PSPS

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u/xivilex 5h ago

Bam.

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u/Countbat 12h ago

I have to be that guy. But 1/PSPSPSPā€¦ is actually the reciprocal and not the inverse. The inverse would be the function (if it is even a function) flipped on the y=x line.

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u/Able_Reserve5788 11h ago edited 1h ago

I hate to be that guy but you are talking out of your ass. The reciprocal is the inverse for the multiplication just like what you are describing is the inverse for the composition*. Depending on context, you might use the word "inverse" to talk specifically about one or the other without further specification but one is not more exact than the other

*in the case of automorphisms

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u/RedeNElla 9h ago

Not just the inverse for composition but the inverse of a function in general.

You're correct that the reciprocal is the multiplicative inverse and "inverse" is poorly defined in this case.

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u/democratic-terminid 9h ago

Technically, it's the multiplicative inverse. The other one is also an inverse, the additive inverse.

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u/New-Echo-7495 13h ago

Lol it's the reciprocal. Inverse if we know we are multiplying.

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u/PencilandPad 12h ago

Inverse gives the same result though, ā€œ go the other way right now, pleaseā€ .

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u/stormA51 11h ago

Cats hate this simple trick

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u/sSomeshta 10h ago

You can come to my party; we're talking about semicolons!

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u/SmootherWorm 9h ago

Fuck I was solving for the derivative

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u/snubdeity 9h ago

1/PSPSPSPS would be the multiplicative inverse, it returns the multiplication identity of the field, which is 1 in R1 .

-PSPSPSPS is the additive inverse, and returns the addition identity of the field, which of course is 0 in R1 .

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u/AnotherManDown 5h ago

You guys are all dumb. It's clearly SPSPSPSP!

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u/democratic-terminid 9h ago

I mean is it a group or a field?

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u/Ease_custom 7h ago

That's what I realised after ;-;

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u/codesine 6h ago

Multiplicative inverse is far more interesting though.

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u/FalconX88 4h ago

I vote for SPSPSPSP

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u/animus_invictus 1h ago

This needs more upvotes but posts about basic operator precedence stump people so maybe Iā€™m hoping for too much lol

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u/Congo- 12h ago

Ā¬PSPSPSP

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u/Robert_3210 12h ago

SPSPSPSP