Alt text: Five dices. Top left corner is a three, top right corner is a six, bottom left corner is also a six and bottom right corner is two threes forming a straight angle.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 months ago

      I’m now committed to getting this to work, but I’m not quite there.

      (6^3) - 6 * 3 - 3 = 195 Beyond this, I’m quite lost on how this can be done with simple arithmetic.

        • @[email protected]
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          3 months ago

          Factorials or something more than basic arithmetic (+exponents) is needed as I went ahead and programmatically checked every expression without parenthesis and the closest would always be 195. Interestingly, all values within a difference of 10 were multiples of 3.

          A lost cause indeed.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            If we allow combining digits to make larger numbers (like kittehx’s edit) we can actually do

            (33*6) - (6/3) = 196

          • Fishbone
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            23 months ago

            Interestingly, all values within a difference of 10 were multiples of 3.

            If it’s limited to basic arithmetic (±*/) and no parenthesis, would there be any answer possible that’s not a multiple of 3? My first thought is telling me that common order of operations would make any equation using the numbers in the OP and the restrictions laid out would always amount to a multiple of 3.

            • @[email protected]
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              3 months ago

              That was my initial thought, but you can do add or sub by 2 (6 / 3) to get a non-multiple of 3. I had to double check and see that there were in fact values of i.e. x.5 within I think a difference of 64, can’t remember the exact values or their expressions.

              • Fishbone
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                23 months ago

                Oh yep, my bad. It’s always division that throws me in math expressions that have multiple steps to them.

    • Sibbo
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      13 months ago

      It’s “loss”, a sad famous meme comic

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    133 months ago

    Can anyone explain to me why Loss became so popular? I never saw it until I joined Lemmy and I’ve seen a couple dozen posts based on it.

    • @[email protected]
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      133 months ago

      At this point it’s an internet inside joke, and like any niche inside joke, there’s a bit of a rush when you recognize it, that you’re in on something special. In the beginning it was mostly just mocking the absurd sudden tone shift in the original Ctrl+Alt+Del comic but like a lot of memes it seems to have evolved and now the fun is creating and finding the loss pattern in unique and different ways.

      I like it, it’s fun

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      123 months ago

      I am almost certain the only reason it ever blew up was because it’s a pretty strong comic, alone, but the fact it can be represented by just a few lines such that nearly any 4 images can become a reference to the comic makes it highly memeable.

      • Xariphon
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        113 months ago

        It also became memeable and noteworthy because it’s it’s drastically off tone for the comic strip it came from. Generally a light hearted series and then BAM, have something that in context is utterly brutal.

        Nowadays it’s so divorced from it’s context that it’s essentially just a meme.