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  • Re: Math challenge
    Piece by piece.

  • Re: Math challenge
    So M$ is full of people who didn't answer "I don't."
    Makes lots of sense.

  • Re: JSH: Give me a name
    ============================== ============================
    Underwood Dudley
    Perfect. Got the book.
    Enrico

  • Re: Math challenge
    You're probably right.
    I'd prefer to work for a company where, if you have a would-be customer who
    asks something along the lines of, "How do I move Mt. Fuji?" (i.e., some
    near-impossible task), they're being serious and fully expect you to come up
    with a serious answer rather than being cute or clever and telling them you'll

  • Re: Balls and Vase problem - final solution
    Yes, I agree that this is only an _assumption_. What I want to do
    is to rewrite this _assumption_ as a rigorous _axiom_.
    In other words, I agree that _ZFC_ proves that no "infinity-1" or
    whatever is a natural number, and that the vase is empty. But TO
    rejects this conclusion and hence he rejects ZFC. So we want to

  • corner intersection as a hinge Re: key log-spiral is the canyon-channel log spiral #889 Correcting Math
    Alright, I still do not have flexibility enough to even create a log-
    spiral within that canyon channel. Whether there is a proof of that
    impossibility given the setup as of yet.
    So I need more flexibility for the canyon channel pattern. And since I
    am lacking in
    pictures, I am going to refer to this picture of four sided irregular

  • Re: Balls and Vase problem - final solution
    Thus, the hyperinflation as described by Tribble does involve
    the number googol, but not googol_plex_. He'd be hard pressed
    to find any economic situation involving googolplex.
    If one wants to stay away from AP's upper bound of 10^500,
    then there are people other than AP with other bounds. For
    example, the ultrafinitist Doron Zeilberger proves that some

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  • Re: Math challenge
    A peak is typically located by the coordinates of the
    highest spot. If it's a smooth peak, the sensitivity of
    that high spot is large to the movement of relatively
    small amounts of material. So, small motions are easy.
    Travel cost is large, though, I'd hire a local agency to
    perform the work, and maybe a second to inspect it.

  • Re: defining natural numbers in ZF and new foundations
    No, it isn't.

  • Re: Math challenge
    I don't even know where mount Fugi is.
    I know the mont Ventoux
    and maybe a few others
    but is it important ?
    maybe I could generalize:
    give me a fixed point and I could move the universe
    AvK
    [Oh, and I don't want to work for microsoft. Just in case]

  • Re: Math challenge
    Exactly.
    My immediate reaction would be that the question is being posed as a
    test of judgement (and maturity).
    Thus, my answer, with almost no delay:
    "You don't! Next question?"
    quasi

  • Re: "Fermat's Last Theorem" Disproved?
    In article
    ,
    Thanks for clearing that up.

  • Re: Vectors summing to zero
    In article
    ,
    I guess what's needed is that there's no half=space containing all
    three vectors. Equivalently, the origin is interior to the convex hull
    of the three vectors.
    Call the edges/vectors u, v, and w. The angle theta between two vectors

  • Re: defining natural numbers in ZF and new foundations
    Ah yes, Quine's New Foundations, one of my favorite theories to
    discuss since it is a counterexample to the claims of posters who
    label challengers to Cantor with five-letter insults.
    Let me answer the second part of the OP's question -- namely why
    Russell's natural numbers _do_ work in NF(U) -- by explaining

  • Re: NEW PARANORMAL CLAIM < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <
    On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:10:25 +1000, "|-|ercules"
    wrote:
    That would be all the ones where you claim
    a) psychic abilities
    b) that you're "Genesis Adam", "the Son of God" or any other of your
    delusions.
    HTH.

  • Re: Vectors summing to zero
    In article
    <19b1efbb-3181-47ee-92c2-5624d c573...@x20g2000pro.googlegrou ps.com>,
    You are calculating O(N^2) dot products
    and O(N^3) 3-by-3 determinants,
    whereas I'm calculating O(N^2) sums
    and sorting a list of length O(N^2).
    I'm not convinced that your coefficient is smaller.

  • Re: Math challenge
    I think that such a question serves more to study how you will
    "respond" to such an open-ended question while under pressure than it
    is to see what type of technical solution you may come up with. In
    fact, attempting to answer in a technical way may just open the door
    nice and wide so that you can walk out and away from the unsuccessful

  • Re: Vectors summing to zero
    On Sep 2, 7:09 am, "Tim Golden BandTech.com"
    wrote:
    I don't really understand what you mean by "sum of the angles between
    three coplanar vectors will always be 2 pi." I'm assuming you meant
    dimension greater than or equal to 2 when you said "in any dimension."
    This statement is trivially false if you just meant "three vectors

  • Re: NEW PARANORMAL CLAIM < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <
    "JessHC" wrote >
    Find a post of mine where I made an error, typos allowed.
    Herc

  • Re: DO YOU WANT ME TO *PROVE* PSYCHIC POWERS OR NOT?
    Hm, this would allow me to prpose publicly 5 questions of the type
    "When writing the smallest prime factor of the number ... in binary,
    is the 17th
    digit from the right a 1?"
    The correct answers could easily be revealed by me after the test and
    a timely(!) correct set of replies would be at least impressive.

  • Re: Vectors summing to zero
    Does that mean, given a standard basis e_1, e_2, ..., e_n,
    your vectors are all of the form
    v = e_i for some i
    or
    v = e_i - e_j for some i != j?
    I assume that v = -e_i is also allowed as otherwise no vector of the
    first
    kind could be included in a sum v_1 + v_2 + v_3 = 0:
    Just consider the scalar product of v_1+v_2+v_3 and e_1 + ... + e_n.

  • Re: JSH: Give me a name
    damN, I read the whole opinion;
    he used the term per Dudley as,
    "dood has a bee in his bonnet."
    however, there are two "proofs" in his book,
    that may be amenable to reading, and
    Dudley admitted this about one of them;
    that was many years ago.
    --lesw ducs d'Enron!
    [link]
    --Light, A History!

  • Re: Another Fourier series question
    Ok, I see that your example follows from the Dirichlet-Dini Criterion.
    So the theorem I am looking for is a theorem that implies both Fejer's
    theorem and this Criterion.
    Not sure if such theorems are known.
    Maybe this is an open question.

  • Re: Math challenge
    "Tell Bill Gates that Oracle was making money with it where it is".
    (I would rather starve than work at Microsoft).

  • Re: defining natural numbers in ZF and new foundations
    On Sep 2, 4:00 pm, mstem...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper)
    wrote:
    There's no set that has all the singletons in it.
    There's no such set.
    A contradiction.
    Toward a contradiction, suppose Ay(z in x <-> y equipotent with {0
    {0}}). Then, for all non-empty z, we have {0 z} in x. So 0 in Ux and
    for all non-empty z, we have z in Ux. So, for all z whatsoever, we

  • Re: defining natural numbers in ZF and new foundations
    On Sep 2, 4:00 pm, mstem...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper)
    wrote:
    Alternatively: if X is a set of all singletons, then \/X is the set of
    all sets (given a set A, {A} is in X). Likewise, if Y is a set of all
    sets equipollent to {0,{0}}, then \/Y would be the set of all sets
    (given any nonempty set A, {emptyset,A} is equipollent to {0,{0}}, and

  • Re: Math challenge
    Bing - next...

  • Re: defining natural numbers in ZF and new foundations
    On Sep 2, 4:00 pm, mstem...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper)
    wrote:
    Not in ZF.
    Not in ZF.
    The latter.
    Suppose the collection of all singletons is a set, X. Define f:P(X)--
    P(X)| <= |X| < |P(X)| (the latter by Cantor's Theorem), which yields a
    contradiction. So the collection of all singletons cannot be a set.

  • Re: NEW PARANORMAL CLAIM < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <
    "JessHC" wrote >
    It's spell FUCK?? That's your counter example using correct grammar?
    There was a third who came close, made a perfectly grammatical attack of my spelling.
    But his criticism was metaphorical only. Guess who was the only being ever to draw some
    of Hercules blood?

  • Re: defining natural numbers in ZF and new foundations
    Is there a set of all singletons?
    A set of all sets equipollent with { 0, {0} }?
    If not, is it a case of "a set doesn't exist in ZF unless we can
    prove its existence", or is it a case of "the existence of such a
    set would lead to the following contradiction"?

  • Re: Math challenge

    That's just 4.5 m -- not going to really reduce the volume that much
    compared to 5 m. 14,344 cubic yards? It sounds like you don't want to
    fill up the entire lower 9th ward. That is woefully too small -- only
    11,000 m^3. 4.5 m x 4,200,000 m^2 = 18,900,000 m^3 of fill.
    11,000 m^3 would only raise an area of 2444m^2. What's that? A big

  • NEW PARANORMAL CLAIM < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <
    10,000 POSTS IN WWW.GROUPS.GOOGLE.COM AUTHOR:"|-|erc"
    SLOPPY SPELLING AND GRAMMAR THROUGHOUT
    I CHALLENGE ANY OF YOU TO FIND A SINGLE POST THAT CORRECTED MY SPELLING
    AND DIDN'T F*CK UP THEMSELVES.
    PROOF OF MY INVULNERABILITY
    BruceS made one such post, but that was his second try after failing the first.

  • Re: New Challenge for Herc
    "JessHC" wrote >
    How many mistakes have you posted to me in the last 24 hours?
    How many more in the next 24?
    Herc

  • STEPHAN HAWKINS, PHYSICISST , -- HIS FOOLISH PRONOUNCENTS TODAY REFLECT THE FALLACY OF CURRENT MATHEMATICS-- BY HOPE RESEARCH
    Utterly foolish of Stephen Hawkins his pronouncement that " Universe
    can create itself from Nothing" -- What is nothing ? Nothing is Null
    zero of current mathematics , there is no such thing as null zero, it
    is -1 inverse zero and our Inverse law that " all form is manifested
    by its least absence" - the least absence of 1 is -1

  • STEPHAN HAWKINS, PHYSICISST , -- HIS FOOLISH PRONOUNCENTS TODAY REFLECT THE FALLACY OF CURRENT MATHEMATICS-- BY HOPE RESEARCH
    Utterly foolish of Stephen Hawkins his pronouncement that " Universe
    can create itself from Nothing" -- What is nothing ? Nothing is Null
    zero of current mathematics , there is no such thing as null zero, it
    is -1 inverse zero and our Inverse law that " all form is manifested
    by its least absence" - the least absence of 1 is -1

  • Re: Math challenge
    A better depth is 15 feet, giving 14,344 cubic yards. Who in here
    knows the volume of a railroad car?

  • Re: Math challenge
    That's easy.
    I would just open up any Microsoft mapping program and point out that
    they had the coordinates wrong!
    -mpm

  • Re: New Challenge for Herc
    "Jesse F. Hughes" wrote
    Can doesn't mean should. I might be able to give some advice with an interactive
    session instead of a single question. I can increase the entropy with repeated questions,
    but no quote in any book will answer his question. Your argument is against the

  • Re: Math challenge
    Answer: "Why? - what is intended?"

  • Re: New Challenge for Herc
    The question was about determining what happened to one's grandmother.
    That doesn't sound like trivia to me.
    Yes, according to the Bible, God can do everything -- except give advice
    on how to find out about one's biological grandmother.

  • Re: Math challenge
    Relative to what?
    If it's relative to any thing smaller than it, I'd try to move the
    smaller thing first. ;-)
    Where to?
    If we just want an horizontal translation, I would pierce parallel
    tunnels underneath, and place wheeled supports, and then pierce other
    parallel tunnels between the first tunnels, and place wheeled

  • Re: Math challenge
    "I don't think that would approved by the environmental review
    board."

  • Re: Math challenge
    42.

  • Re: "Fermat's Last Theorem" Disproved?
    On Sep 2, 2:45 am, Gerry Myerson
    wrote:
    An unaccomplished crackpot is somebody like JSH whose claim to fame is
    a formulation of new definition of proof but that's about all. An
    accomplished crackpot talks about deep connection between Mayan
    religion and pastafarians and alignment of cosmic forces and how it

  • Re: Math challenge
    Take a photo, print it and lay it on the interviewer's desk.

  • Re: Balls and Vase problem - final solution
    Don't you find it remarkable that every working mathematician fails to
    notice this amazing consequence?
    How is it that you understand that 0.999... < 1, while all them high 'n
    mighty "professors" seem to miss it?
    Note: this is not a counterargument to your claim. I'm just curious how
    you reconcile the fact that you see the truth and no trained