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  • MartianSands@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzblursed
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    4 months ago

    Sure, but there are far more things which will kill the entire person at the same dose they’ll kill the cancer than things which can be carefully controlled by choosing the right dose.

    These studies which claim to kill cancer in a petri dish usually turn out to be the former, because not killing the host is the difficult part








  • X^0 and 0! aren’t actually special cases though, you can reach them logically from things which are obvious.

    For X^0: you can get from X^(n) to X^(n-1) by dividing by X. That works for all n, so we can say for example that 2³ is 2⁴/2, which is 16/2 which is 8. Similarly, 2¹/2 is 2⁰, but it’s also obviously 1.

    The argument for 0! is basically the same. 3! is 1x2x3, and to go to 2! you divide it by 3. You can go from 1! to 0! by dividing 1 by 1.

    In both cases the only thing which is special about 1 is that any number divided by itself is 1, just like any number subtracted from itself is 0