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 @armpit licker feet smeller  tangentially related: the sup and inf of the empty set are counterintuitive at first glance. See the pic which comes from @:ihavenomouth:  ‘s pinned post about how Javascript makes more sense than people think

https://cawfee.club/media/648e495044cecf37502573bc2cc5fb9ba172e8e839f7a4162aaa2d1245dff9d4.jpg 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @:ihavenomouth:  i thought empty sets cant have inf or sups by definition. 
 @armpit licker feet smeller  @☃️merry chrimist☃️ they are more like empty subsets of R (actually IEEE 754 double-precision floats)