Searching for something that is not there!!

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Pls provide mathematical algorithm for finding something which is not there.

K10xbye

[Shaggy Hiker]

Things that ARE there are always in the last place you look for them. Therefore, if you can figure out where the last place is, then all things that are not in that place are not there.

I think this means that nothing is there, but I can't be bothered to connect all the dots.

[dee-u]

1 + 2 * 3 / 4 % 5 ^ 6

wlcm

[crptcblade]

I before E, except after C.

/thread

[EntityX]

infinity - infinity = 0

[mendhak]

If you want search for something that isn't there, then you should have joined the army a few years ago.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Things that ARE there are always in the last place you look for them.

This is a truism, simply because once you find it you stop looking. /logic

[BillGeek]

This is a truism, simply because once you find it you stop looking. /logic

That really does make sense.

infinity - infinity = 0

Seeing as infinity has no bounds, it must seem that:

infinity - infinity = infinity

[EntityX]

Pls provide mathematical algorithm for finding something which is not there.

K10xbye

If it's not there then don't look for it in the first place and you'll save yourself the trouble of looking for something that's not there.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This is a truism, simply because once you find it you stop looking. /logic

Here's another truism for you: My post went over your head.

However, I sometimes look in a few other places after finding something just so that it WASN'T in the last place that I looked.

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If it's not there then don't look for it in the first place and you'll save yourself the trouble of looking for something that's not there.

U cee, my problem is. that it might not, not be there. Therefore, I must search to confirm it is not there.

When to stop searching?

[homer13j]

When to stop searching?

Uh... when the dog goes to sleep?

[EntityX]

Here's another truism for you: My post went over your head.

So if your post went over his head then if he were to look up at the right time he would see your post passing above his head.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Oh no, now we've sunk into literalism.

You're like a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there.

[techgnome]

How do you search for something that isn't there? By looking for something else. Happens to me all the time. I go looking for my keys, I find my wallet, phone and glasses instead. I seem to find any and everything else but the object being sought.

-tg

[namrekka]

I didn't know that there was something there.