We shall call the "transreal line" the union of the real line, and the three points, infinity, -infinity and ? (which he denotes as phi).
Having gone over his papers with a friend (during the brief cessations from hysterical laughter) we deciphered the exact content of his "discovery". Essentially he has formulated a weak and useless version of real analysis with a horrendous number of axioms and added on a point ? which is disconnected from the real line unioned with infinity and -infinity.
All of the objections I have seen to his system are not valid manipulations in it for example, you are not permitted to use >, = or ?" is not allowed.
I have briefly scanned his list but I don't see where he addresses the question of whether he allows
1/(-x) = -1/x as permitting such a thing within his system would immediately cause infinity = -infinity which is not allowed by an earlier axiom (i.e. that it is internally inconsistant).
your rich bastard `fathers'-boy' friend, who gets $400 for christmas and is told to spend it how he wants, so gets his daddy to make him a much better PC than you, which he then infects with Win2000 because he cant figure out how to install any linux distro, despite you lending him the CDs and offering to come round your house.
Lets see... things i saw in the comments section today; ``we hate chinese'', ``we hate japanese'', ``we hate english'', ``english hate americans'', ``american football is gay'', ``it's not football, it's soccer, what else to name a game that is played almost entirely with the feet and a ball?'', ``Jon Katz are is a bad journalist wifh crap englich ski11z'', ``america is the best country in the world'', ``all french women are whores'', not to mention numerous stupid `programming' comments that amount to the same difficulty and showing of ability as `print "Hello, World\n"... in any language... then a surge of 50 replies that first correct their declarations, then span the thing out to over 150 lines... eventually coming up with a racial comment again...
Well fuck. if that is the best/. - apparently the meeting place of the interllectual elite can produce, then i guess i can begin to understand why you americans persist in having the death penalty.
Show a little love someone. Someone else: dont mod them down.
Rich Man: "Damn my computer just broke!"
Passer By: "Whats up with it?"
Rich Man: "Well with the heat of my hand on it dang thing browned out"
Passer By: "Oh... weird... well open it up and I'll have a look"
Rich Man hands it over
Passer By: "Next time get a brand name wristwatch"
Rich Man: "No, no thats my palm top"
Passer By slips it down sleeve...
In the spirit of slashdot i have decided to be slightly irrational and try to make a definitive reference of all formulae and values and mathematical... things people should know off the top of their head... to a reasonable approximation;)
sqrt 2
sqrt 5
e
pi
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
a/Sin A = b/Sin B = c/Sin C
``SOH, CAH, TOA''
1/ {1 to 8}
Appearances of base 10 divisions i.e. division by 11 gives a rational with period of 2 etc.
names for exponents of 10 from -18 to 18
What an Angstrom is
Exponents of 2 2 to 10 or 11
Obvious laws of Indices, i.e. dividing and multiplying, the rest should be supplied for you
Recursive formula syntax
And for that matter... Nth Terms
C = 2(pi * r^2)
Idea of how to calc Std. Dev, appropriate forulae on demand seem reasonable for exams...
yea, theres a lot of them alright and they pretty much own at world athetics and sports (maybe they should be split into provinces for these things - of say 250 million each (to make it fair for the USA)) any how, one thing they cant do is play football. oh yea. (Football as in the game with the spherical ball. not American football.)
after the Matrix 1, 2 and 3, they will being work on prequels, The Structure, The Array, and The Hash table, of course noone likes the structure because of the annoying referencing systems.
.... Is that it was modded `insightful', i think we must have some very guillible moderators if they think using JPEG2000 will increase their bandwidth!
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We shall call the "transreal line" the union of the real line, and the three points, infinity, -infinity and ? (which he denotes as phi). Having gone over his papers with a friend (during the brief cessations from hysterical laughter) we deciphered the exact content of his "discovery". Essentially he has formulated a weak and useless version of real analysis with a horrendous number of axioms and added on a point ? which is disconnected from the real line unioned with infinity and -infinity. All of the objections I have seen to his system are not valid manipulations in it for example, you are not permitted to use >, = or ?" is not allowed. I have briefly scanned his list but I don't see where he addresses the question of whether he allows 1/(-x) = -1/x as permitting such a thing within his system would immediately cause infinity = -infinity which is not allowed by an earlier axiom (i.e. that it is internally inconsistant).
Hopefully this is just a hoax to expose the ignorance of the BBC. What this man is talking about is in no way an original idea.
but Dr. Evil runs starbucks! He's just giving his fellow mac users a helping... hand?
your rich bastard `fathers'-boy' friend, who gets $400 for christmas and is told to spend it how he wants, so gets his daddy to make him a much better PC than you, which he then infects with Win2000 because he cant figure out how to install any linux distro, despite you lending him the CDs and offering to come round your house.
man you have underhanded friends...
and ridiculous modding down of posts.
/. - apparently the meeting place of the interllectual elite can produce, then i guess i can begin to understand why you americans persist in having the death penalty.
Lets see... things i saw in the comments section today; ``we hate chinese'', ``we hate japanese'', ``we hate english'', ``english hate americans'', ``american football is gay'', ``it's not football, it's soccer, what else to name a game that is played almost entirely with the feet and a ball?'', ``Jon Katz are is a bad journalist wifh crap englich ski11z'', ``america is the best country in the world'', ``all french women are whores'', not to mention numerous stupid `programming' comments that amount to the same difficulty and showing of ability as `print "Hello, World\n"... in any language... then a surge of 50 replies that first correct their declarations, then span the thing out to over 150 lines... eventually coming up with a racial comment again...
Well fuck. if that is the best
Show a little love someone. Someone else: dont mod them down.
Goodbye Karma
You can read his .plan or you can finger him.
I guess they are just coming up with more interesting ways of getting paid for this stuff.
__DUCKS__
Summing it up with a roleplay...
Rich Man: "Damn my computer just broke!"
Passer By: "Whats up with it?"
Rich Man: "Well with the heat of my hand on it dang thing browned out"
Passer By: "Oh... weird... well open it up and I'll have a look"
Rich Man hands it over
Passer By: "Next time get a brand name wristwatch"
Rich Man: "No, no thats my palm top"
Passer By slips it down sleeve...
Ehh... A Darlington Pair just becomes a Dalton Pair .
Mr. Jerry Vines, Ph.D.
Pastor/CEO
First Baptist Church of Jacksonville,
Florida
Ph.D!! in what? religious hatred? lack of compassion? I think what he means is
Jerry Vines, Pra.T.
Wanker w/BO
First Raptist Church of Jackoffville, Whorida.
Yeah mod me down!
goddammit M$, rig C|Net polls all you want but dont go trolling slashdot!
Oh and Goedels incompleteness theorem...
The comment that just... |3p7 g01/\/g...
then again there would be people who would walk up to you, ask for directions, wait for you to get out your PDA then shout "delete all files"
it's football dammit, not soccer! Get your own name for a game invented a long time after football.... hummph americans.
yea, theres a lot of them alright and they pretty much own at world athetics and sports (maybe they should be split into provinces for these things - of say 250 million each (to make it fair for the USA)) any how, one thing they cant do is play football. oh yea. (Football as in the game with the spherical ball. not American football.)
after the Matrix 1, 2 and 3, they will being work on prequels, The Structure, The Array, and The Hash table, of course noone likes the structure because of the annoying referencing systems.
mac laptops running windows as i remember. ;)
They just had to be better than them ;).
Well he hasn't been posting on /. much recently, perhaps he has found other work!
.... Is that it was modded `insightful', i think we must have some very guillible moderators if they think using JPEG2000 will increase their bandwidth!
Yommorrow on slashdot: - First Human Clone Eight Weeks and One Day Along
of course for the rest of us, it is a simple Cron task.
the british... damn got me there... well i guess i do brush those teeth from time to time though.