paswt Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 IKBA ? lol......... " I know b*gger all". "We are all ignorant , only in different subjects" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 My head started to hurt after 5 minutes of that youtube clip. Nice use of Sharpies and brown paper though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 And none of you can say X Y Z about it because it would take forever - boom boom Try this one then. The Mandelbrot set is named after its discoverer, Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The 'B' stands for 'Benoit B. Mandelbrot'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Perhaps it's about time I changed it. How about to this: Maybe get a bit more maths discussion going on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 The 'B' stands for 'Benoit B. Mandelbrot'. Ah but is that B or B² ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Like Rhumsaa, I'm an expert in pie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lao Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Perhaps it's about time I changed it. How about to this: Maybe get a bit more maths discussion going on here. I wouldn't hold any hopes of intelligent discussion here, there's a bloody flat Earth thread on the front page. Seems like the monkeys are running the zoo these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Perhaps it's about time I changed it. How about to this: Maybe get a bit more maths discussion going on here. I wouldn't hold any hopes of intelligent discussion here, there's a bloody flat Earth thread on the front page. Seems like the monkeys are running the zoo these days. "Gauss is reported to have commented that if this formula was not immediately obvious, the reader would never be a first-class mathematician" Source There goes my chances of mathematical honours! Though explaining why is quite a fun exercise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Oh, I thought he'd updated to a new one, but no! The Mandelbrot set IS pretty awesome - complex to boot! And very, very simple to program. With a few days' work you have something nice and attractive. There are thousands of Mandelbrot set generators on the web: http://www.easyfractalgenerator.com/mandelbrot-set-generator.aspx http://tilde.club/~david/m/# http://www.atopon.org/mandel/# You can't beat writing it yourself, simple code, super results. I wrote a Mandlebrot generator for Digital Unix (forget what it was called) for a big European computer show in '93 or '94 to show off a funky new workstation. $50,000 for a week's work. Bought a new car with the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Oh, I thought he'd updated to a new one, but no! The Mandelbrot set IS pretty awesome - complex to boot! And very, very simple to program. With a few days' work you have something nice and attractive. There are thousands of Mandelbrot set generators on the web: http://www.easyfractalgenerator.com/mandelbrot-set-generator.aspx http://tilde.club/~david/m/# http://www.atopon.org/mandel/# You can't beat writing it yourself, simple code, super results. I wrote a Mandlebrot generator for Digital Unix (forget what it was called) for a big European computer show in '93 or '94 to show off a funky new workstation. $50,000 for a week's work. Bought a new car with the money. Forking L, Nissan Micras were dear back then, weren't they ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Perhaps it's about time I changed it. How about to this: Maybe get a bit more maths discussion going on here. I wouldn't hold any hopes of intelligent discussion here, there's a bloody flat Earth thread on the front page. Seems like the monkeys are running the zoo these days. "Gauss is reported to have commented that if this formula was not immediately obvious, the reader would never be a first-class mathematician" Source There goes my chances of mathematical honours! Though explaining why is quite a fun exercise. I'll bet if you really put your mind to it, you could find better ways to have fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Forking L, Nissan Micras were dear back then, weren't they ? From memory it was a Nissan 200. Lovely car, chewed up the Autobahn and spat out this bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Forking L, Nissan Micras were dear back then, weren't they ? From memory it was a Nissan 200. Lovely car, chewed up the Autobahn and spat out this bits. OK, I'll give you that one. Bloody nice car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Perhaps it's about time I changed it. How about to this: Maybe get a bit more maths discussion going on here. For me this is a thing of beauty. An elegant equation that connects arguably the 5 most important numbers in the whole of maths. Zero and one, when combined with the operation of addition and its inverse define the integers, and the use of division gives you all rational numbers. Combine these numbers into polynomial equations and some of them will have solutions that need algebraic irrational numbers, and imaginary numbers. i is defined as one of the solutions to x^2 = -1. That leaves pi and e, which are the 2 most important transcendental numbers, that turn up naturally in maths as the circumference:diameter ratio in a circle, and the base of natural logarithms respectively. Proving that pi is irrational is awkward. e is easier, but proving e's transcendental nature is more difficult. Once you have that last point however Euler's equation implies pi's transcendental quality. Plenty more for you to go on there thebees if you're so inclined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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