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Are there any revisionist or conspiracy theories about math?
2010-02-01, 11:38 AM #41
Jon`C is EDUCATED STUPID
I'm just a little boy.
2010-02-01, 11:57 AM #42
Math is herd.
2010-02-01, 1:41 PM #43
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Hey, quaternions are my favourite mathematical object! They use imaginary numbers and non-commutativity, both entirely abstract ideas, but can be used to calculate meaningful things in Physics. They even have a similar structure to a space-time metric. But (almost) everything that can be done with quaternions can now be done with vectors and matrices, and usually is. I tried to use quaternions instead of vectors for some representation theory of groups, but it's really easy to miss a minus sign and mess up everything. Vectors are much easier to check for mistakes.


Quaternions are used quite often in video games, since they can be used to smoothly interpolate between two or more orientations. This is difficult with matricies.
2010-02-01, 4:41 PM #44
oh, had anyone else ever noticed the correlation between pascals triangle and wireframe objects?

it's hard to describe, i hope this picture suffices to explain..
Attachment: 23432/pascal.hex2.gif (10,447 bytes)
2010-02-01, 5:03 PM #45
minor nitpick: singular form of vertices is vertex
2010-02-01, 5:05 PM #46
true
2010-02-01, 9:12 PM #47
Hay guyz I'll give you ten dollars if you find the pattern to the primes lol
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2010-02-01, 9:28 PM #48
Originally posted by Freelancer:
Hay guyz I'll give you ten dollars if you find the pattern to the primes lol

Sure let me ask Riemann.

Wait..
Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.
2010-02-02, 12:50 AM #49
THEY ALWAYS GO UP BY EVEN NUMBERS!
2 2 4 2 4 2 < all even numbers!!! holy ****!!!!!
3 5 7 11 13 17 19

i am MATH GOD
2010-02-02, 1:14 AM #50
I think I need to change pants now.

...

Oh wait, I'm not wearing any pants. o_O
I can't wait for the day schools get the money they need, and the military has to hold bake sales to afford bombs.
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