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      NaN would be something that isn't toilet paper. So I'm gonna say a picture of a whole rotisserie chicken on the toilet paper bar.

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          I thought it was established that in the context of this meme and the comment above mine, numbers were represented by toilet paper as an analogy. If that's not the case, then I don't get the meme at all.

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        It gets funner when it's a value that actually is a complex number with an "imaginary" component, but gets represented by NaN because the real value doesn't make sense by itself. In reality, imaginary components are extremely critical for some equations and are totally valid.

        I wish I remembered my math well enough to have one off the top of my head, but I don't use it often enough… IIRC, it's even important for magnetics, let alone more complex physics, so it does come up in practice quite often. I think there's even a fundamental part related to derivatives, but yea, don't exercise math enough. Might be misremembering.

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      Infinities: The toilet paper just keeps piling up until it's out of frame. It probably ends somewhere, but nowhere we can measure.

      Alternately, the toilet paper it tightly wedged in the little hole and no more could be accommodated.

      Subnormals: There's less than one square left, but there is still toilet paper.

      -0: The glue marks on the empty tube are pointing the other way. This shouldn't matter, but is apparently enough to confuse some toilet users.