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"The possibility of gravitational waves was discussed in 1893 by Oliver Heaviside" I was trying to find a motel once and was directed onto "Sample Rd". The str
by vba616 5y ago
"The possibility of gravitational waves was discussed in 1893 by Oliver Heaviside"
I was trying to find a motel once and was directed onto "Sample Rd". The street was real, but when I got to the supposed location of the motel, I didn't see anything.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoOliver Heaviside and The Heaviside Layer https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2017.0459 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.201...
- mkl 5y agoHe also has a function named after him that looks like it has one heavy side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
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- vba616 5y agoIf I'm reading that right, then when considering the general function, 0 is grouped with negative numbers, but when considering integers only ("Discrete form" a ways down) then 0 is grouped with positive numbers (that is, the output is 1). How odd.
- _moof 5y agoOne of the early papers on the Big Bang was by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow.