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Post #AxeeIjOrmf1vyS8nEO by [email protected] |
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I don't know what "ordinary math" is, but actual math is looking … |
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Post #AxegwMA5noC5OSFkBM by [email protected] |
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Very much so indeed.Take, say, BB (10¹⁰⁰) and raise it to the power of BB(… |
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Post #AxeoUBk7kGHMbZBZkO by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez quanta tends to sensationalize. Exponentiation is just ordinary… |
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Post #AxeqLOzhJ9yx0MPNDc by [email protected] |
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@vnikolov @johncarlosbaez But my electronics professor told us that, if we thin… |
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@ppscrv @vnikolov - Electrical engineering uses a lot of complex analysis, and … |
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Post #AxeqT4W3KT6FoGCQ64 by [email protected] |
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@vnikolov - "Take, say, BB (10¹⁰⁰) and raise it to the power of BB(10… |
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Post #AxeuDtam3qtvP2QW2K by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @vnikolov Yes, indeed. My initial struggles with "Wait, fr… |
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Post #AxeuFA7Q6LMQwsIgka by [email protected] |
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@poetaster - Quanta is talking about BB(n), which blows exponentials out of the… |
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Post #AxeuKbOQ7kCOzBqWXI by [email protected] |
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@ppscrv - I hope you had a moment of blissful enlightenment. Or two.Here's… |
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Post #AxevVFZThFF4Rlex5E by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Very nice!I stumbled into some of that, as in "I can't… |
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Post #AxevwZGEbCOVKdgVH6 by [email protected] |
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Looking at this nice drawing and calculating in my head,I come up with a little… |
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Post #Axew9wCgbr8KFhOsL2 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez In the end, I realised that the electronics I was good at and e… |
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Post #Axew9wJQCoWMaaYFpw by [email protected] |
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@ppscrv - me too, I think! |
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Post #Axf1Do6r91GG4uKzya by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez tetration is the only way to express large bb numbers (states o… |
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Post #Axf29B5mMsuHrcBrdI by [email protected] |
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@poetaster - 1) Tetration is not the only way to express large BB numbers. The… |
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Post #AxfJZKzzr8gRL4XsO0 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @ppscrv @vnikolov Fun detail with this: the fourpole approach t… |
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Post #AxfJspYUTM31bryTrc by [email protected] |
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@ralf_muschall - I don't know what the fourpole approach is. Or at least n… |
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Post #AxfKRiw14z5DDCcJKi by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Just this. AC people use the A matrix, other ones are e.g. (u1,… |
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Post #Axfm3nTXLLBF3qfucK by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez All the extant literature from , for instance Scott Arronson ht… |
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Post #AxfnzaRY3PaDOPrh8y by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez To two, I had to look a bit, and couldn't find the first po… |
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Post #AxgjX2oXHuReKJiBjU by [email protected] |
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@vnikolov @johncarlosbaez I find the concept of busy beavers to be extremely in… |
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Post #AxgjX2wKougQiVMPtA by [email protected] |
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@metarecursive @vnikolov - I'm fascinated by fast-growing computable functi… |
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Post #AxixmULwy5z9ktWG9Y by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @poetaster I thought TREE(n) was computable and therefore event… |
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Post #AxjExsSDOr7yuSSxVo by [email protected] |
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@solrize wrote:"I thought TREE(n) was computable and therefore eventually … |
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Post #AxjyxreoxRLMKXIIqW by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @poetaster You might like this if you haven't seen it alrea… |
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Post #Axl5waJeqB435vgyNU by [email protected] |
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@ralf_muschall @johncarlosbaez @vnikolov the four pole approach is new to me. W… |
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Post #Axl5waUICdZTcufSxE by [email protected] |
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@ralf_muschall @johncarlosbaez @vnikolov I see that I do know it after all, jus… |
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Post #Axl5wacnh0NQ3IeGDQ by [email protected] |
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@ppscrv - at the simplest level, a twistor is just a list of 4 complex numbers.… |
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@johncarlosbaez I might remember enough about Lie algebras and topology to make… |
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@ppscrv - in principle to understand SU(2,2) you only need to know a bit about … |
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Post #AxlbPcUQw0NMoV3cBc by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Too specialised just to dip into out of general interest? I mig… |
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@ppscrv - It's not like this stuff is especially hard, I'm just not see… |
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Post #AxnZHtjX81Q6NuEKnY by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Thanks - that's a pretty interesting page. You're prob… |
