fvirexi

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by fvirexi 11y ago
It's not based on stereotypes of Texas and Texans, but rather of the Wild West - as in the location of cowboy movies. There exists equivalent phrases refering to the Wild West directly, and at one point it seems "Texas" becam
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by fvirexi 11y ago
The keyboard part will help quite a bit, at least. Being from Norway, the occasional æ-ø-ås are quite revealing.
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by fvirexi 11y ago
EDIT3: 233/114 should be 233/144, and it's off by ~10^{-5}
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by fvirexi 11y ago
I apologize for the vagueness. "Hardest to approximate" does require certain definitions first. The reasoning behind this is simple continued fractions, ie. fractions like a_0 + 1/(a_1 + 1/(a_2 + ...)) = [a_0; a_1, a_2,
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by fvirexi 11y ago
Good point. The reason why few to no plants are not black is a very interesting problem, which I haven't heard an answer to. Still, the number phi has very unique properties, considering its SCF. And the sequence of fibonacci ratios is
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by fvirexi 11y ago
I only meant it as a possible explanation for why it wouldn't be unreasonable to think phi appears often in nature. I don't really have enough knowledge of nature to say if it's the case. Distribute the seeds of a sunflower r
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by fvirexi 11y ago
I don't know about limbs, but it could explain sunflower seeds and branches of trees. If they are distributed with a period, every n'th time around they will shade for other seeds (or branches). Approximating \phi is then a good w
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by fvirexi 11y ago
The fibonacci spirals _are_ something special. The simple continued fraction of the golden mean is [1;1,1,...], and its convergents (the sequence of fractions that best approximates it) is ratios of fibonacci numbers. In short, due to the 1
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by fvirexi 11y ago
[white] as a catchall is a bit misleading. Perhaps a different border color or an asterisk inside the square to clearly mark that it's not an actual white block?
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by fvirexi 11y ago
Amazing game! On the "Fort" level, the map [blue][white]->[blue] removes the [blue] block, rather than the [white]. This is a different behavior than the map [red][red]->[blue], which converts two [red] into one [blue].
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by fvirexi 13y ago
Can't this be partially solved by just throwing multiple dices? E.g two 6-sided dices would then have a higher chance of 7 than 12.
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by fvirexi 13y ago
It doesn't change the sleep patterns, but would you say it does not make a difference in judging at which hours other people sleep?
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by fvirexi 13y ago
I find this a really good argument for it: how are you supposed to know if you call somebody in the middle of the night, if it's noon where you are, and the hour is the same? By having different time-zones, you need to look it up, but
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by fvirexi 13y ago
I read logicalee's comment as a reference to the way most (all?) branches of mathematics may be built using sets and their axioms. Set theory boils down to "in the set" and "not in the set", ie. black and white.
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by fvirexi 13y ago
For your first suggestion, I dusted off some old code and modified it slightly: http://pastebin.com/qV8fU1a4 It should keep the layout as is, while only adding color, but I have only tested it on wikipedia. The color period
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by fvirexi 13y ago
In Norway, we have BankID as well (works well on mac/chrome, though), but we also have a choice to use non-java MinID ("MyID") for logging in to do taxes/healthcare/education/etc. Signing electronically is stil