The article plainly states that the parchment was reused because parchments were hard to come by and archimedes' work wasn't in demand. It's the simple issue of supply and demand and a monk that made a rather careless mistake, not some evil church cabal trying to quash all knowledge.
Christians, as stupid as they are sometimes, don't have anything against mathematics anyways.
Is Matlab really the best for this problem? In my AP Computer Science class, we had a Marine Biology Case Study (which became progressivley more complex) and it [Java] seemed to handle things relativley well. Wouldn't a C++/Java/other implementation be a lot more reasonable, considering programmer availablity and code speed? Does Matlab offer something that the other big languages don't?
Obviously nobody profits from the fact that at one time, for a very brief period, the universe acted a little funny.
However, this has important ramifications in terms of physics. We now know the "what" and "when" - now we need to learn the "why" and "how." Knowledge is never wasted. This may very well be the first baby-step towards warp drive and gravity guns:-)
Open source works for me. I'm no linux fanboy (I have been spotted, on rare occasion, praising Microsoft's assorted wares) however I have to say, considering the price, it works perfect for my needs. In fact, I don't think I've had a "Windows-only" situation in the past six months.
Although I could be the exception, not the rule. I'm not really big in to games, and I don't really participate in a large-scale network.
Great idea. Heck, even migrating the network to another hash system would mess them up, but dual hashes? Extra CPU time for clients, sure, but in this day and age it really doesn't matter...
Of course I'm always a fan of just using an encryped network like Freenet:-D
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The article plainly states that the parchment was reused because parchments were hard to come by and archimedes' work wasn't in demand. It's the simple issue of supply and demand and a monk that made a rather careless mistake, not some evil church cabal trying to quash all knowledge.
Christians, as stupid as they are sometimes, don't have anything against mathematics anyways.
Is Matlab really the best for this problem? In my AP Computer Science class, we had a Marine Biology Case Study (which became progressivley more complex) and it [Java] seemed to handle things relativley well. Wouldn't a C++/Java/other implementation be a lot more reasonable, considering programmer availablity and code speed? Does Matlab offer something that the other big languages don't?
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Obviously nobody profits from the fact that at one time, for a very brief period, the universe acted a little funny.
:-)
However, this has important ramifications in terms of physics. We now know the "what" and "when" - now we need to learn the "why" and "how." Knowledge is never wasted. This may very well be the first baby-step towards warp drive and gravity guns
Open source works for me. I'm no linux fanboy (I have been spotted, on rare occasion, praising Microsoft's assorted wares) however I have to say, considering the price, it works perfect for my needs. In fact, I don't think I've had a "Windows-only" situation in the past six months.
Although I could be the exception, not the rule. I'm not really big in to games, and I don't really participate in a large-scale network.
Great idea. Heck, even migrating the network to another hash system would mess them up, but dual hashes? Extra CPU time for clients, sure, but in this day and age it really doesn't matter...
:-D
Of course I'm always a fan of just using an encryped network like Freenet