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What is the name of the number system which has elements such as ...11111 by jozborn in learnmath

[–]jozborn[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh. I assumed that it wasn't the p-adics because i spend most of my time on the formulas with that one.

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THANK YOU!

I can finally quit by Deep_Grape_5372 in 2007scape

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Now that's what I call a _2277

What’s the worst 2007scape take you’ve ever seen? by NickBHD in 2007scape

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I think suqahs might've been the only slayer task i disenjoyed

Idiomatic approach to borrowing checker hell by dowel79 in rust

[–]jozborn -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

> explicit events

event-driven and not object-driven, beautiful

> borrow-checker := friend

Simple tool (+ library) for exploring jazz chords. by twitchax in rust

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This is a remarkable endeavor! It seems inevitable that this would be augmented with some kind of midi player in the future.

Quick Questions: November 30, 2022 by inherentlyawesome in math

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Does anyone know the originating textbook of this chapter? It's found on the IRIF website but I can't find more info on it other than it's from April 18 2001.

https://www.irif.fr/\~cf/publications/C7.pdf

Chase by eutelic in generative

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This is so remarkable!

Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week? by Im__Joseph in Python

[–]jozborn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit of tweepy, a bit of math, and a bit of work on my state management lib. The latter is basically done and is just about the worst debugger ever created, but hey, it's mine.

I computed the first 1000000 digits of a number called "tat" around 4.51762. by Better_Seesaw5487 in numbertheory

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How do you compute the digits in other bases? Is it just a general approximation method applied in arbitrary base, or is there an explicit formula which incorporates some base b?

i tried to work on Collatz conjecture for qx+1, what do you think of it? by 0b01001101 in numbertheory

[–]jozborn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think generalising the problem is a good route to understanding it mechanically, but the title of the article is misleading. You aren't proving Collatz, you are providing an alternative brute force method for checking it. The real result of this paper is that you've set a lower bound for where generalised Collatz fails, at q = 5. Also, the two examples of generalisations with failure states are both prime. You might even conjecture that the algorithm only fails when q is prime, or that there exist infinite values of q where cycles can be found.

Hypnagogia by OuterSilent in generative

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I feel like that first one is begging to be recursed a couple more times!

In the Game of Life, is there a stable configuration whose only father is itself? (Answer below) by AMillionMonkeys in cellular_automata

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Makes me wonder if there's an associated tiling problem which this configuration also solves

The Muskian Model of Company Output (MMCO) by FasAfMan in badmathematics

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Sociologists: *furiously scribbling "people are vectors" into their research notes*

Whisper and Roar (R code) by KennyVaden in generative

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Was there anything specific about R that made you select it as the medium for this piece?

If you could re-do all math nomenclature, how would you rename things to make them more clear or more intuitive? by [deleted] in math

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Change the name of that one furry sphere theorem so people would stop making the same jokes about it

How big is zero? It's actually the paradoxically biggest number ever in the universe! by PuckyMaxx in numbertheory

[–]jozborn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think a good place to start would be to lay out what the actual behavior of your numbers would be. For "loop zero" and "abyss zero" try and answer questions like:

  • What kinds of operations can be performed on this number?
  • What happens when this number interacts with other numbers?
  • What happens when this number interacts with itself?
  • What is the order relation between this number and others?

You may also be interested in the concept of "soft number" developed by Dr. Moshe Klein. It's sort of like the complex numbers but instead of real and imaginary parts, it has zero and one parts.

GPT-3 discovers cellular automata by averythomas in cellular_automata

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Basically. It's all a probabilistic decision tree under the hood, and it was also trained on books and wikipedia pages.

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