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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by gameoflifemaniac » October 6th, 2017, 4:21 pm

What's the definition of trivial?
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Apple Bottom » October 6th, 2017, 6:05 pm

gameoflifemaniac wrote:What's the definition of trivial?
A mathematician is presenting some new results to a colleague. His colleague points out that he did not prove a theorem; the mathematician replies that the proof is trivial. At his colleague's request, he starts proving the theorem anyway. After two hours, he's done; all the room's blackboards are filled with arcane formulae and obscure symbols. His colleague nods, strokes his beard thoughtfully, and agrees that yes, it IS trivial.
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Gamedziner » October 7th, 2017, 9:09 am

How does one reduce the infinite equation y = first root (x+ square root (x + cube root (x + fourth root (x + fifth root( x + nth root(x + ...
,where n is the number of radicals in the series up to and including that point?

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by praosylen » October 10th, 2017, 4:59 pm

Anyone have any idea how to find (EDIT for clarification: or at least approximate) real-valued solutions f(r) to the equation f(f(r)) = x^r for given real x and a real variable r? I'm trying to define tetration for non-integer real values without reading exactly why it's impossible first. (Next I'd need to find g(r) so that g(g(r)) = f_x(r), h(r) so that h(h(r)) = g_x(r), etc..) I'm not sure whether it's possible without some other constraint, though -- f(f(r)) = r has uncountably infinite solutions, and in any case I can't think of a non-redundant constraint for the other one apart from infinite-order differentiability on some open interval, which still doesn't yield finitely many solutions.

Hopefully I said all that right.
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Macbi » October 10th, 2017, 5:13 pm

A for awesome wrote:Anyone have any idea how to find real-valued solutions f(r) to the equation f(f(r)) = x^r for given real x and a real variable r?
x^(r/2)?

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by praosylen » October 10th, 2017, 5:31 pm

Macbi wrote:
A for awesome wrote:Anyone have any idea how to find real-valued solutions f(r) to the equation f(f(r)) = x^r for given real x and a real variable r?
x^(r/2)?
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but the way I'm constructing it, that would give f(f(r)) = x^((x^(r/2))/2) ≠ x^(r/2).
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Apple Bottom » October 10th, 2017, 6:18 pm

A for awesome wrote:Anyone have any idea how to find (EDIT for clarification: or at least approximate) real-valued solutions f(r) to the equation f(f(r)) = x^r for given real x and a real variable r?
For starters, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-exponential_function , which has some links/references that may be helpful.
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Saka » October 11th, 2017, 5:28 am

What happen if oil (black gold) became worthless because of the invention of a magic infinite oil machine? (E.g. free oil for people who want it)
What would happen to "oil kingdoms" such as the Middle East?

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Bullet51 » October 11th, 2017, 6:13 am

Macbi wrote:
A for awesome wrote:Anyone have any idea how to find real-valued solutions f(r) to the equation f(f(r)) = x^r for given real x and a real variable r?
x^(r/2)?
x^sqrt(r) may work for positive r:
f(x)=x^sqrt(r)
f(f(x))=(x^sqrt(r))^sqrt(r)=x^(sqrt(r)*sqrt(r))=x^r
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Macbi » October 11th, 2017, 6:16 am

Bullet51 wrote:
Macbi wrote:
A for awesome wrote:Anyone have any idea how to find real-valued solutions f(r) to the equation f(f(r)) = x^r for given real x and a real variable r?
x^(r/2)?
x^sqrt(r) may work for positive r:
f(x)=x^sqrt(r)
f(f(x))=(x^sqrt(r))^sqrt(r)=x^(sqrt(r)*sqrt(r))=x^r
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by muzik » November 3rd, 2017, 11:55 am

Is it possible for star polygons, such as {3/2} and {5/3}, to exist on the hyperbolic plane?

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by muzik » November 3rd, 2017, 12:51 pm

Also, are there any other numbers where n, n+2, n+6, n+8, n+90, n+92, 9+96 and n+98 are all prime (or as I call them, twin prime-quadruplets)?

The only numbers I can find where this works are 11 and 101.

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by calcyman » November 3rd, 2017, 2:48 pm

muzik wrote:Also, are there any other numbers where n, n+2, n+6, n+8, n+90, n+92, 9+96 and n+98 are all prime (or as I call them, twin prime-quadruplets)?

The only numbers I can find where this works are 11 and 101.
It's possible to find closer pairs of PQs, e.g. 1006301 + {0, 2, 6, 8, 30, 32, 36, 38} are all prime, so that should define a 'twin prime quadruplet'. The first few such twin prime quadruplets are shown at https://oeis.org/A059925 if you're interested.
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by muzik » November 3rd, 2017, 3:34 pm

So those can exist...

If these are to be the twin prime-quadruplets, then were we to extrapolate from the names of prime numbers differing by an even number n (twin for 2, cousin for 4, sexy for 6, etc) and take the distance between the first number in each prime quadruplet in the grouping to be 15n, would this result in the originally proposed type of grouping be called "sexy prime-quadruplets"? Or is this paragraph a load of nonsense?

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by Rocknlol » November 3rd, 2017, 4:33 pm

muzik wrote:Also, are there any other numbers where n, n+2, n+6, n+8, n+90, n+92, 9+96 and n+98 are all prime (or as I call them, twin prime-quadruplets)?

The only numbers I can find where this works are 11 and 101.
15641 fits; I can't find any other number that does but I'm sure that they're out there.

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by muzik » November 3rd, 2017, 4:45 pm

Nothing came of the OEIS, but punching "11 101 15641" in Google including the quotation marks led to a German paper which seems to give multiple more numbers which look like they might fit this sequence.

11, 101, 15641, 3512981, 6655541, 20769311, 26919791, 41487071, 71541641, 160471601, 189425981

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by calcyman » November 3rd, 2017, 5:32 pm

muzik wrote:Nothing came of the OEIS, but punching "11 101 15641" in Google including the quotation marks led to a German paper which seems to give multiple more numbers which look like they might fit this sequence.

11, 101, 15641, 3512981, 6655541, 20769311, 26919791, 41487071, 71541641, 160471601, 189425981
I get the following exhaustive enumeration of values below 10^9:

11, 101, 15641, 3512981, 6655541, 20769311, 26919791, 41487071, 71541641, 160471601, 189425981, 236531921, 338030591, 409952351, 423685721, 431343461, 518137091, 543062621, 588273221, 637272191, 639387311, 647851571, 705497951, 726391571, 843404201, 895161341, 958438751, 960813851, 964812461, 985123961
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by muzik » November 3rd, 2017, 5:43 pm

I guess that's pretty neat.

The paper doesn't mention any 60 or 150 type gaps, though. Can they be proved to not exist, or are they just really big?



As for the 3/2 "star triangle" question, here's roughly what I'd assume such a figure to look like:

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x = 80, y = 74, rule = B3ai4a/S3ai4a5ai6ac7c8
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29bo17b2o$29bo16bo$30bo13b2o$30bo11b2o$31b11o!
Are there any more well known names for this shape (aside from "fidget spinner" or "that one weird shape you always find drawn in old textbooks")?

5/3:

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34bo$45bo34bo$46bo32b2o$46bo32bo$47bo30b2o$47b2o28b2o$48b2o24b4o$50b2o
15b8o$52b15o!

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by toroidalet » November 3rd, 2017, 9:52 pm

muzik wrote:Are there any more well known names for this shape (aside from "fidget spinner" or "that one weird shape you always find drawn in old textbooks")?
A trefoil, maybe?
Could be likened to a biohazard or radiation symbol but these aren't topologically identical.

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Post by muzik » November 4th, 2017, 6:12 am

Seems as though "trefoil knot" fits this shape well enough. Can't seem to find any shapes that match the 5/3 shape though.

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Post by Gamedziner » November 4th, 2017, 7:34 am

The closest think I could think of was a Spirograph.

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58.2A$58.2A3$59.2A17.2A$59.2A17.2A3$79.2A$79.2A2$57.A$56.A$56.3A4$27.
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$4.2A18$4.2A$4.2A2.2A$8.2A!

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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by muzik » November 6th, 2017, 4:45 pm

Is 11 truly the only number where n, n+2, n+6, n+8, n+90, n+92, 9+96, n+98, n+180, n+182, n+186 and n+188 are all prime? If there are any more such numbers out there I will be surprised.

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Post by calcyman » November 6th, 2017, 5:37 pm

muzik wrote:Is 11 truly the only number where n, n+2, n+6, n+8, n+90, n+92, 9+96, n+98, n+180, n+182, n+186 and n+188 are all prime? If there are any more such numbers out there I will be surprised.
Conjecturally, and heuristically, there are infinitely many.
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Post by AforAmpere » November 6th, 2017, 6:06 pm

muzik wrote:Is 11 truly the only number where n, n+2, n+6, n+8, n+90, n+92, 9+96, n+98, n+180, n+182, n+186 and n+188 are all prime? If there are any more such numbers out there I will be surprised.
Probably not, as calcyman said, but none that I could find up to 10^8.
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Re: Thread for Non-CA Academic Questions

Post by gameoflifemaniac » November 12th, 2017, 3:40 am

How are all the bits converted in to music?
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