Personally, I can't stand all the corn syrup the Americans seem to have in everything they eat. Maybe this is my body's way of saying "get the hell out of this silly country before you become one of them!"?
"on the scale of a millimeter in circumference. Or maybe a millimeter in diameter."
That'd be circumference. A circle cannot have diameter unless it is embedded in some larger space which fills it. But then you have yet another dimension to explain away in the theory...
Length would only make sense in the other dimension by comparison to lengths we know already, so scale cannot be an issue. Try thinking of it this way: the new dimension is not given by a line like your x- and y-axes, but by a circle. Each time you travel a certain distance in the z-direction, you come back to where you started. Disclaimer: IANAST (I am not a string theorist) but IAAT (I am a topologist).
So, what I want to know is: will this scientific research lead to a new design of toilet that is able to please both genders, thus breaking the intellectual monopoly that Thomas Crapper's original design has had for far too long?
The grandparent comment should have claimed only that Tex is ubiquitous in the hard sciences. Though I know plenty of biologists who have come to see the benefits of Tex, they are not the norm. But then they do not need the same level of sophistication as theoretical physicists and mathematicians, so the main benefit of Tex is just that it makes things look more professional.
It is simple to coerce authors into the house style. Make your house style file public and demand that people use it. For example The Journal of Topology and practically every other maths journal does this.
Well actually I can write down all the numbers with far less bytes than that. For example the sequence 123456789 contains not just three three digit sequences (123, 456 and 789) but seven! Like 234, 567 etc.
Moreover, if I allow the numbers to be thought of as a 2D grid (allowing sequences go off one side or top or bottoma nd come back on the other side) and write
123
456
789
(3 digits per line)
Then I have just written a whopping 73 different three digit sequences in 9 bytes. So I contend that you could do this all in a rather small file. Even better, if you write this in a text format that displays the letters in 3 (or say 1000000) dimensions, it is even easier. I,ll let someone else work out the optimal UNCOMPRESSED filesize needed to display all 16 hex digit sequences...
Not that I think the proposal is practical, but:
By any sensible metric (behavioural or especially genetic) the pygmy chimp is much closer to us than the to other primates. The question should be whether homo-troglodytes deserves the same rights we would afford to cro magnon man or neanderthals.
The EPSRC is responsible for more than just engineering. For example, they make up most of our Pure Maths Department's PhD funding here as well as much of the Theoretical Physics. Their name is just misleading.
Not entirely true. Naturally you can NEVER read the quantum state of the qbits, because observing them only yields one of the states each qbit is (or could be) in, not all of them. However, should the program be written well enough it is possible to gain information form the observed states. This is sufficient to crack RSA in a very short space of time with relatively few qbits (16 would suffice for many applications if the quantum computer were general purpose) AND give an observable result.
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Thanks. I did.
Personally, I can't stand all the corn syrup the Americans seem to have in everything they eat. Maybe this is my body's way of saying "get the hell out of this silly country before you become one of them!"?
That'd be circumference. A circle cannot have diameter unless it is embedded in some larger space which fills it. But then you have yet another dimension to explain away in the theory...
Length would only make sense in the other dimension by comparison to lengths we know already, so scale cannot be an issue. Try thinking of it this way: the new dimension is not given by a line like your x- and y-axes, but by a circle. Each time you travel a certain distance in the z-direction, you come back to where you started. Disclaimer: IANAST (I am not a string theorist) but IAAT (I am a topologist).
So, what I want to know is: will this scientific research lead to a new design of toilet that is able to please both genders, thus breaking the intellectual monopoly that Thomas Crapper's original design has had for far too long?
The grandparent comment should have claimed only that Tex is ubiquitous in the hard sciences. Though I know plenty of biologists who have come to see the benefits of Tex, they are not the norm. But then they do not need the same level of sophistication as theoretical physicists and mathematicians, so the main benefit of Tex is just that it makes things look more professional.
It is simple to coerce authors into the house style. Make your house style file public and demand that people use it. For example The Journal of Topology and practically every other maths journal does this.
Well actually I can write down all the numbers with far less bytes than that. For example the sequence 123456789 contains not just three three digit sequences (123, 456 and 789) but seven! Like 234, 567 etc. Moreover, if I allow the numbers to be thought of as a 2D grid (allowing sequences go off one side or top or bottoma nd come back on the other side) and write 123 456 789 (3 digits per line) Then I have just written a whopping 73 different three digit sequences in 9 bytes. So I contend that you could do this all in a rather small file. Even better, if you write this in a text format that displays the letters in 3 (or say 1000000) dimensions, it is even easier. I,ll let someone else work out the optimal UNCOMPRESSED filesize needed to display all 16 hex digit sequences...
Not that I think the proposal is practical, but: By any sensible metric (behavioural or especially genetic) the pygmy chimp is much closer to us than the to other primates. The question should be whether homo-troglodytes deserves the same rights we would afford to cro magnon man or neanderthals.
The EPSRC is responsible for more than just engineering. For example, they make up most of our Pure Maths Department's PhD funding here as well as much of the Theoretical Physics. Their name is just misleading.
Not entirely true. Naturally you can NEVER read the quantum state of the qbits, because observing them only yields one of the states each qbit is (or could be) in, not all of them. However, should the program be written well enough it is possible to gain information form the observed states. This is sufficient to crack RSA in a very short space of time with relatively few qbits (16 would suffice for many applications if the quantum computer were general purpose) AND give an observable result.