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the visualization isn't meant for those who know that.
by cracki 17y ago
the visualization isn't meant for those who know that.
- zackattack 17y agoIt rolls so quickly, I would find it difficult for anyone who doesn't know this to grasp the fact. It took me a second, and I'm awesome at basic mathematics. BTW, diameter here = 1. Anyone else thought that π(n) was referring to a graph of the density of prime numbers? :P
- skolor 17y agoIt took me three watchings to figure out what they were trying to demonstrate. Between the colors (not to harp on the color blindness thing, but those color choices were dreadful) and the speed of the animation, its relatively difficult to even understand what is happening the first few times through.
- zeynel1 17y agoI agree. The version here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Pi-unrolled.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Pi-unrolled.gif appears to move slower. I think it's better.
- nopassrecover 17y agoIf you didn't know that, HN probably isn't the right place to start learning it.
- allenbrunson 17y agofor me, the comment i'm replying to shows a red dot, just to the right of the up/down arrows. i've seen a couple of other comments with such a dot. anybody know what it means?
- superkarn 17y agopg's experiement http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
- chriskelley 17y agoIt means the comment has reached the "good" threshold and has 5+ upvotes. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846123 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846123