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How to fit an elephant
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoSo, now, the trunk? Let's see it wiggle!
- Shenglong 15y agoI would've had so much fun with this on a ti83 back in high school... But more seriously: kind of makes you wonder even more, how people can believe those doomsday proclamations based on patterns in centuries-old texts.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoThose types of people also believe that it's elephants all the way down. Four and a half parameters?
- Dove 15y agoIt turns out you can literally fit an elephant with four parameters if you allow the parameters to be complex numbers. That's cool and all, but it kind of strikes me as cheating, given that complex numbers are vectors. I mean, heck, with four parameters I can fit three elephants, if you allow the parameters to be vectors in 6-space.
- nickolai 15y agoYou can fit any finite number of elephants with one paramter once you put it that way :)
- seats 15y agoInfinite too
- sliverstorm 15y agoThe point is not so much "four", the point is "surprisingly small number".