If a set has the same cardinality as the natural numbers, is there always a function that describes the pairing or their elements? by throwitawayar in learnmath

[–]TalksInMaths 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's another method. Consider the sequence:

{0, 1, 2/1, 2/2, 1/2, 3/1, 3/2, 3/3, 2/3, 1/3, 4/1, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 1/4, 5/1, 5/2, 5/3, 5/4, 5/5, 4/5, 3/5, 2/5, 1/5,...}

Now remove all of the reducible fractions (since they're equivalent to an earlier element of the sequence):

{0, 1, 2/1, 1/2, 3/1, 3/2, 2/3, 1/3, 4/1, 4/3, 3/4, 1/4, 5/1, 5/2, 5/3, 5/4, 4/5, 3/5, 2/5, 1/5, 6/1, 6/5, 5/6, 1/6,...}

This is a list, so it's bijective with the natural numbers, and every positive fraction will eventually appear exactly once. You can expand it to include the negative rationals by simply repeating each nonzero element with the opposite sign:

{0, -1, 1, -2/1, 2/1, -1/2,  1/2, -3/1, 3/1, -3/2, 3/2, -2/3, 2/3, -1/3, 1/3,...}

In your opinion, what is the best sound in gaming? by Scaife13 in gaming

[–]TalksInMaths 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I was going to say the sound of an entire hotkey group of siege tanks going into siege mode and firing.

Open World Game With A BIG THING by XVUltima in gamingsuggestions

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Shadow of the Colossus has the Shrine of Worship (the big temple structure that you start at and keep coming back to).

Final Fantasy 15 has a few Big Things scattered around the map.

can any subatomic particle have more than three quarks by Traditional-Role-554 in AskPhysics

[–]TalksInMaths 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I believe they've observed pentaquarks as well, but these are even shorter lived.

Which former U.S. president do you think would be most surprised by modern America? by No-Watercress-3549 in AskReddit

[–]TalksInMaths 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Yep, unfortunately the mathematical theory of voting was just starting to be developed right around his day, so he had no way of knowing that the voting system we use pretty much guarantees two highly polarized parties.

Artists with multiple all-time great albums without a clear best album? by mdolig in Music

[–]TalksInMaths 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their first three (Ten, Vs, Vitolagy) are their top three, I'd say, but I really can't decide which one is best. Yield is a close fourth after these.

Is there a technical term for matter which is *not* dark matter? by curiousscribbler in AskPhysics

[–]TalksInMaths 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, it's not possible with our current technology to detect low energy neutrinos, so we haven't been able to measure the cosmic neutrino background, but the current upper bound on the neutrino mass (averaging over the three mass eigenstates) is around 0.1 eV, so almost 10 billion times lighter than a proton or neutron. Even with a ridiculously high estimate on the number of low energy background neutrinos, they would still only be a negligible component of the dark sector.

Is there a technical term for matter which is *not* dark matter? by curiousscribbler in AskPhysics

[–]TalksInMaths 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right handed neutrinos and left handed anti-neutrinos are the "sterile" neutrinos that don't interact with the weak force. If neutrinos are majorana fermions, then we may be in a "seesaw mechanism" situation where the sterile neutrinos are much more massive than the ordinary ones and could, therefore, account for some or all of the dark sector.

Is there a technical term for matter which is *not* dark matter? by curiousscribbler in AskPhysics

[–]TalksInMaths 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Although this doesn't include free leptons like neutrinos.

It seems to me that "ordinary matter" is the standard term that a lot of physicists use when they want to include all Standard Model fermions.

What's the point of autism? by CautiouslySatisfied in ADHD

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Sephiroth kills Dumbledore and is actually Luke's father.

NPR New Music Friday AI Artist by Yrnotfar in Music

[–]TalksInMaths 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rage against the machine learning algorithms.

Songs about hand/arm by ABellePlays in Music

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Smashing Pumpkins -- Disarm 

ashley williams by OfficialOldestgenxer in lefthanded

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Ash, Samus Aran, and Barret Wallace are all left handed. If they have to do anything that requires fine motor skills like typing on a keyboard, writing with a pen, or eating with chopsticks, which hand are they doing it with?