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Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

• jkush 20y ago
  Other than using this as an example in C.S courses, would this be applicable or useful for anything?
  • rms 20y ago
    No, but it's pretty cool. "The formula itself is a general purpose method of decoding a bitmap stored in the constant n"
    • jkush 20y ago
      oh it's definitely cool. I'm just thinking about ways I can make this useful.
    • aston 20y ago
      Although you need to tweak the constants (that 17) depending on the height.
• jganetsk 20y ago
  It's just like a quine that uses stores some sort of numerical representation of itself as a byte array in the code.
• jey 20y ago
  Awesome idea, too bad most of the heavy lifting is done by encoding the image in a big constant... if the constant itself was in the formula the awesomeness would be higher. From the WP entry: "The formula itself is a general purpose method of decoding a bitmap stored in the constant n, so it could actually be used to draw any other image, and does not in fact contain any reference to itself. This is not the case with Tupper's later self-referential equation whose plot describes only itself." What's this "Tupper's later self-referential equation"?