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Classic Math Puzzle Cracked
An anonymous reader writes "This is cool - if mind-bending. A century ago, a self-taught math genius from India noticed some patterns in how numbers can be created by adding other numbers. Now a grad student has finished the job showing that the patterns apply to all prime numbers, not just some. There's more on the Indian math guy here."
"mother (later his wife"
That guy (or maybe his entire culture) is fucked in the head man.
Just sick.
From summary: some patterns in how numbers can be created by adding other numbers Fucking genius!
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It is true, India has been syphoning a lot of work from other countries. But the same is true for China, Russia, Taiwan and for us here in Pakistan.
The reason India is doing well at all, is that for years the only good place for a Indian to learn was outside of their own country. So they flooded Great Britain, the US, Denmark, and Canada. Meanwhile Pakistan has grown to even greater measure by nurturing their intellectuals within their own borders or inviting leading scholars to work in our country.
I think Pakistan is seen as a much more attractive venue for logistical and scientific work.
His mother became his wife? Or his cook became his wife?
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
Yeah, fine, but could Srinivasa get a date in London on a Saturday night? No, didn't think so...
Why can't all agree that Indians and Muslims treat their women like friggin' dirt because of some severely socially retarded notions of male superiority.
How would you like those to call you "the white editor of Slashdot"? You do not like Indian people, I believe.
I suggest you read Slashdot
Anonymous Nerd writes: "This self taught computer programming genius in India took my job! His name is Devarsi, his email address is devarsi@ibm.com, phone 555- 1234, and his address is 123 Fake Street, Delhi! How about some help from the slashnerds to rough him up a little?"
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Some Indian Grad student is NOT in the same league as Einstein or Linus Torvalds. There's no reason why anyone should know who he is.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
"If I was a short French dude from the past where would I go?"
Germany, with both hands up. :P
and remember when an oversea-er held a whip and bossed us around?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
"Imaginary numbers were so named because no one figured they had real world uses: today, they're taught as a practical matter for electrical engineers to use in their electronics calculations."
That is very wrong.
Gauss, (hmm.. where have I heard that name before) invented imaginagry numbers because in electricity, negative values are as real as positive values, and math regains symetry through imaginary numbers so that we can find the root of -1, a very real value in gee, magnetism perhaps?
And about the name?
Gauss was french, and while imaginary has stuck, the proper translation is image-less. While imaginary has connotations of being of the mind or made up, image-less means invisible, or directly as it was described, as having no image on the "real" number line.
Better might be visible and invisible, instead of real and imaginary. Best is certainly Image-less, as it is a direct translation of what Gauss was referring to.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
You're wrong.
You cannot decompress that stream since if you compress
0011 you get 01
Please tell me how you distinguish that from just having compressed 01.
Now add length coding so you know the resulting length then you can decompress the earlier example but not:
010011
0101
There are two options, both equally probable.
Compressing something isn't difficult, but if you want it to be able to decompress then you have to think of something more clever.
Read a basic book on information theory and compression.