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orthogon wrote:Personally I'm more disturbed by upper indices that aren't exponentiation.

Would be okay with Einstein index notation x_b^a if it was being used to represent the Vandermonde matrix?

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Soupspoon wrote:
Cousj001 wrote:Drat, I though my idea of making a fortune by selling smartphones to whales as already been though of.

^{[cetacean needed]}

Citation: The entry on Atlantic humpback dolphin in Wikipedia's List of cetacean species.

Also, I'm getting tired of digs on the intelligence of astronomers.

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Umm... guys... I hate to break this to you, but... the Time comic, it's... it's... it's over. There aren't any new panels released. It's reached the end of the story. Sorry, I know you're having so much fun. I didn't want to be the one to tell you all and ruin it, but I thought it would be better if...

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somitomi wrote:Complaint about wall of text and move that conflicts with the previous analysis.

An attempt to carefully re-explain my analysis and why your move is invalid, which somehow ends up being even more inscrutable.

A lame response to Jose's move.

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This post complains about how all the off-topic and meta content makes it difficult to tell what is happening in the game itself. It carefully analyzes all the game-related content in the past 5 pages to infer what the current state of play is, and tentatively makes a move in accordance with that an...

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Patashu: The questions that you discuss in your comment are similar to what I cover in my blog post. As PsiSquared points out, representing huge numbers in a form like "Ae(Be(CeD))" is inefficient: As soon as you have an expression of the form Ae(BeC), since the exponent BeC does not give ...

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A deliberately obfuscated strategy: Each player assigns to all other players a 3-bit code, so that going around in clockwise order from the player just after them the codes are 111, 101, 001, 010, 100, and 011. The player then computes the bitwise XOR of the codes of all the players that are wearing...

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Granted, not including a wish was necessary for your joke to work, but c'mon, give me something to work with!

I wish for lots of rain and a good harvest.

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Congratulations, you received a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory! You subsequently die there in a suitably ironic way.

I wish Willy Wonka would make his factory OSHA-compliant, geeze.

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Granted. S/he makes a bunch of awful confessions that make him/her extremely unpopular, so s/he never gets elected to any office. I didn't even need to corrupt that wish, this is just what happens.

I wish upon a star.

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It's been a long time since I was active here, but I want to show you something I wrote. It's about a system for describing large numbers with precision, somewhat akin to scientific notation but extending to numbers in at the ordinal function regime. Here's a link: https://itaibn.wordpress.com/2017/...

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Does gcc have any features that let you run arbitrary code? After all it's a compiler, not an interpreter.

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I don't get it. All I see is a bunch of gray pixels. Where's the joke?

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My preferred approach: Definition: A number p is prime if and only if for any finite sequence of numbers a 0 , a 1 ..., a n-1 , if p divides the product a 0 ...a n-1 , then p divides one of the terms a i for some i<n. Theorem: 1 is not prime. Proof: Check the definition for n=0. Exercise: Is 0 prime?

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Unlike blurp(1), blurp(3) is always in Quiet Mode. After all, it's in a library!

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John Egbert wrote:look, you're going to have to face it at some point...
that you're learning the meaning of this human emotion called friendship.

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Would anyone please summarize what we know so far in terms of locating the OTC with astronomy?

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Engraved on the wall is masterfuly designed image of a dwarf fortress made by John Smith. In the dwarf fortress there is a dwarf. In the dwarf fortress there wall. Engraved on the wall is a fine image of a piece of cheese. The dwarf is gazing at the wall. The artwork relates to a game of dwarf fortr...

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First of all, the binding energy of a nucleus can take away as much as 0.9% of its mass (in the case of Fe-56). However, these tests of the equivalence principle have been done with a precision of about 10^10. This makes any conspiracy where electrons and protons have gravitational masses deviating ...

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I don't have synesthesia but I could still immediately see the 2. Weird. I guess the combination of having different numbers than the background area and also being a different density made it obvious enough. The 4 I couldn't see until I knew it was there, I think because the numbers making it up w...

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I haven't read this whole thread, but I know about the fast-growing hierarchy so I'm not going to present anything naive. My actually-computable finite number - albeit nobody knows its actual structure - is as follows: Let T be the first-order theory of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory plus the Axiom of...

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Sadly, it's impossible to generate useful work out of perpetual motion crackpottery.

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This comic isn't going to age well. Who would be able to tell what these lines mean after a few years?

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Granted.

I wish I had a fun video game.

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<flamewar>
The problem is that you're implicitly assuming the axiom of excluded middle...

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_infina_ wrote:A move that defies all logic, yet is completely legal.

Questioning the legality of that move, noting that it defies all logic.

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A completely normal move.

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adj. Lacking the ability to be coughed on.

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The smallest cardinal [imath]\kappa[/imath] such that [imath]V_\kappa[/imath] is a model of ZFC (note: this is not an inaccessible cardinal).

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⋅ Ur doin it wrong. ⋅ Ur doin it wrong. ⋅ ...whenceforth I communicated this most exciting news to my beloved monarch, the Grand Prince of Transylvania. ⋅ What does the title have to do with anything? ⋅ I suppose that longevity, fitness, and breedin...

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Spoiler:
1. e2-e4 c7-c5
2. e4-e5

2. ... Nb8-Nc6

EDIT: Oops.

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c7-c5

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Actually, the largest number tends to vary from day to day. Since people started measuring it in 1856, the largest it ever got was 274087721634.46 in August 1920, though geological data hints that there was a short period 34 million years ago where it reached about 1 trillion.

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Describes confusion over what is going on in the game, and proposes to start anew.

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I'm hoping they add "import antigravity/skynet/soul".

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Compare:
"She literally had a heart attack on the roller coaster."
"She had a heart attack on the roller coaster."

Language is weird.

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