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PuzzleFan 7 months ago
  This is an interesting conversation going on about mathematics stuff. I got a B in my 6th grade math class. The hardest part was the advanced equations, inequalities and fractions, etc. Transcendential sounds like a crazy term that the Greeks or Trojans would use back in the medieval times.
Coolguy52 7 months ago
  The true creepiness of transcendental numbers is that as I said before, since a lot of early mathematics was based on algebra, it doesn't feel very comforting that almost any random real number cannot be constructed that way. To hammer home the point, if you take the section of real numbers between 0 and 1, and then pick out a random one based purely on a uniform distribution, the chance that the number can be constructed algebraically is zero, which just feels completely strange.

I wonder if the people who discovered that transcendental numbers exist had similar reactions as the Ancient Greeks did who discovered they could make numbers like the square root of 2 that can't be represented cleanly as a ratio of two integers...

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I think, at least for people who study mathematics, that irrational numbers have been so clearly ingrained in their minds that it takes something like this to remind them of how weird that next leap up can be. I think it doesn't help that real numbers only get weirder and weirder, like the fact that the majority of real numbers are 'uncomputable', they're just out there with no repeating process that generates them. You'd struggle to even find them but they're there. Mathematics tells you stuff that is totally non-intuitive, but it is one of the few fields where you can prove facts from premises with absolute certainty.
john96 7 months ago
  That was weird and creepy in a way, but it's always a brilliant thing that suhangha has made for us to see!
Coolguy52 7 months ago
  That is quite weird to be honest. I hadn’t made the link that they are the same number… it’s probably just an error in WolframAlpha, because it claims that it doesn’t know if 1 is transcendental, which it obviously isn’t.
suhangha-2 7 months ago
 
Coolguy52 7 months ago
  Transcendence is a very interesting property to be honest. In a way it makes me feel slightly weird, you can show that transcendental numbers are far more common than algebraic numbers. The problem with that is our immediate intuition for how we understand numbers would start from whole numbers of things, develop to involve ratios between those whole numbers, and eventually solutions to algebraic equations in the whole numbers, but almost every number can't be produced that way. Simple concepts like the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter surely feel like the should be easy to construct in these ways, but try as you might it is impossible, as pi is transcendental.
chris3000 7 months ago
  That was interesting suhangha!! I was the top student in my algebra class 14 years ago, I remember every moment of it when I was in the 10th grade. I graduated high school in Summer 2010.
Coolguy52 7 months ago
  I’d say almost surely. Obviously it’s not a proof that it is but with the sheer amount of transcendental numbers, that one almost surely is. Actually proving that conjecture would be ridiculous though.

EDIT: Didn't see the other one.
suhangha-2 7 months ago
 
suhangha-2 7 months ago
  Latest news: title & icon changed to hexagon! icon 3x3 Hexagon means 18 element Worlds and central World the Modern Day. THATS IT
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Coolguy52 7 months ago
  Hexagons are one of three regular polygons that can tesselate the plane on their own (along with squares and triangles). That’s why the shapes look very cool and also why they show up in nature a lot, like honeycombs. Also they are structurally strong.
chris3000 7 months ago
  Tacos, steaks, and hamburgers...
john96 7 months ago
  Yeah, I'd like to know what's going on there too. Hexagons are cool, interesting shapes.
chris3000 7 months ago
  Interesting information suhangha! Keep us updated on your Universter game.
suhangha-2 7 months ago
  GAME OST, silently although
also, this korean group's music!

I changed name UNIVERSTER TO HEXAGON

'UNIVERSTER' navar usad anymora! THAT reason iS A HINT. FIND what is this korean group (:
john96 7 months ago
  I only like rock music. Not a fan of jazz or hip-hop.
chris3000 7 months ago
  What type of music to you like listening to?
chris3000 7 months ago
  I'm going to a bowling alley tomorrow night. I need some real fun! It's boring staying indoors 24/7 on the Internet and PlayStation.
john96 7 months ago
  What's up everyone, I hope y'all have a great weekend. I didn't know you can double-post here either.
chris3000 7 months ago
  Oh, well that explains it then. I'm fixing to eat dinner, I'm having a turkey sub with cheese, onions, lettuce and bacon bits. And for dessert I'm eating some cookies and a vanilla cupcake with sprinkles.
Coolguy52 7 months ago
  The post below is correct. Doubleposting is possible, even in the same minute!
Coolguy52 7 months ago
  I concur, you can definitely doublepost!
gameinsky 7 months ago
  I didn't do anything in the sort. This topic has no settings that differentiate it from other topics. Mostly on account of there not being options to do that in the first place.
chris3000 7 months ago
  This forum that niimporta made years ago has come a long way, it's still running strong. I'm glad GIS fixed it to where people can only post one message a day so it doesn't generate too much spam.
chris3000 7 months ago
  Wow, what a stressful week it's been for me and my mom, I'll explain later what happened Friday.
Dynamo 7 months ago
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chris3000 8 months ago
  I gotta go to bed at a decent hour tonight, because we have to shop for food/supplies at our local Food Lion or Walmart tomorrow night. There is a tropical storm headed our way for this weekend. They are calling for high winds and heavy rain.
chris3000 8 months ago
  Yeah, what an achievement! Soon enough you'll reach 5000 levels and earn that special award. Just focus on the kids and easy levels first, and then work on the medium, and lastly the hard levels.
Coolguy52 8 months ago
  Congrats John! That is a pretty incredible achievement for your short time on that account! I doubt I've ever reach 1000 BB levels solved!
john96 8 months ago
  Guess what guys, I just solved my 2,000th level of Blockoban. It took me a while to get used to the blocks and physics of the game, but now I'm in the pro-league too. I've learned some advanced tricks too to solving the harder levels.

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