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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.

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[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 83 points 8 months ago
[-] lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world 81 points 8 months ago

Can anybody help me understand this? I can't make it be 196 or anything. I'm at a loss.

[-] Doxin@yiffit.net 47 points 8 months ago
[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago
[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Thought it was a 196 joke at first and now I'm just irritated.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

How though? I'm really not getting it

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago

1, 2, 2, 1 and 1 laying down. Classic loss.jpg

[-] hummas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 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.

[-] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you allow factorials:

6^3 - 6! / (3! * 3!) = 196

Edit: also 66*3 - 3!/3 = 196

[-] hummas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[-] CR_S01@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

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

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

[-] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

How did I not try that? Now I feel dumb lol

[-] fishbone@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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.

[-] hummas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

(6!/3!)*1.633

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

It's "loss", a sad famous meme comic

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 49 points 8 months ago
[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago
[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Was it about a haiku?

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Is that fucking loss? I stg...

[-] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago
[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Loss is the new Rickroll.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know if this is referencing Loss or Full House...

:O

Lamenting the loss of Full House? 🤔 You must really like that show.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 13 points 8 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.

[-] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

It's like a comedy cemetery type of meme

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 13 points 8 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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 8 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@kbin.social 11 points 7 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.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago

Google en passant

And all will be revealed.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

That's a chess move. Are you stupid? Go back to asulme.

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 9 points 8 months ago

I'm at Loss of words...

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

There are no words.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

This is a full house! You can be proud of yourself! Don't shy away!

[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

those 6 sides look fucked up tho

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago
[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

FULL BOAT, THREES! HAH!

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