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It 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 stri
by Dove 15y ago
It 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".