granite_scones

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by granite_scones 15y ago
You clearly can't have 2i + 3 dollars, so by that logic, complex numbers aren't real numbers.
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by granite_scones 15y ago
Your analogy is off. With number theory, even if no one had an external use for it, progress was (is) made, new theorems were proved, so time was not wasted in that regard. The problem with the Collatz conjecture is whether the effort spent
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by granite_scones 15y ago
Not really. This is about being able to access the specific papers written; it is not about being able to read an aggregate of the research without necessarily being able to look at the original source (which is what Wikipedia is). (EDIT: g
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by granite_scones 15y ago
Then you choose "Other UNIX Based".
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by granite_scones 15y ago
Important to whom? What people find remarkable and notable varies wildly. What may be notable to one group (say the residents of X-town may find the mayoral election notable) might not be to another (Y-town doesn't care). Something remarkab
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by granite_scones 15y ago
I'm curious to see the smooth infinitesimal analysis approach to complex analysis. Using the limit definition (the dreaded epsilon-deltas), you get the correct definition of continuity (for the usual topology). How (if at all) do you do the
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by granite_scones 15y ago
That just pushes the problem back to whether perfect circles can exist in reality.
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by granite_scones 16y ago
"This example uses the simplest possible set of prime number — 1, 3, and 7." 1 is not a prime number. Also, the "simplest" possible set of primes would be 2, 3, and 5.
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by granite_scones 16y ago
The "Power" section made me think of Blub. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by granite_scones 16y ago
If you (re)define a word to be sufficiently broad, it's particularly difficult to find positive aspects to it.
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by granite_scones 16y ago
I think there's some merit to this proposal, but it's too riddled with an infatuation with a certain brand of Christian monasticism for me to separate out what is good and what is bad. "As we all know, for the virtuous student, college lif
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by granite_scones 16y ago
I cannot be the only person who thought this would be about the free software movement (e.g. GNU) rather than the movement towards software being released gratis .
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by granite_scones 16y ago
In his defense (despite an apparent lack of understanding of what "socialism" actually means), the author wasn't talking about state socialism, which isn't the only form of socialism.