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  • K Kastellanos Nikos

    My statement is true for a 12024562121-dimensinal space projected to the 11-dimension. I guess it was obvious. Nobody else complain except you! :cool: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memory leaks is the price we pay \0 01234567890123456789012345678901234

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    Jorgen Sigvardsson
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    Hahaha! :-D Ok. You got me there. But then again, the course in "Linear Algebra" was not a requirement for me. :cool: so I may be excused for my ignorance. But I do have a question. How does dimensions relate to numbers? If I remember correctly, numbers are just names or symbols for "pure values". How can a value in the most abstract sense be related to dimensions? Wouldn't a value in an n-dimensional space (or whatever the terminology is) be an n-tuple of values? (Is there a short answer to this...? If not, don't go out or your way to explain it to me.) Sidenote: If you wan't to make best friends with a functional programmer (Haskell junkie or the like), tell them that numbers are nothing more than named constant functions. You'll have a friend for life.. :-D

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      The phone number Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.

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      Paul Watson
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      Tim Smith wrote: The phone number :omg: :omg: :laugh: :omg: :laugh: :eek: :rolleyes: Good old Colin and well done to you Tim for figuring it out. I hope the secret service does not break down my door tonight for posting the number all over a website :-O :eek: :laugh: regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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        Hahaha! :-D Ok. You got me there. But then again, the course in "Linear Algebra" was not a requirement for me. :cool: so I may be excused for my ignorance. But I do have a question. How does dimensions relate to numbers? If I remember correctly, numbers are just names or symbols for "pure values". How can a value in the most abstract sense be related to dimensions? Wouldn't a value in an n-dimensional space (or whatever the terminology is) be an n-tuple of values? (Is there a short answer to this...? If not, don't go out or your way to explain it to me.) Sidenote: If you wan't to make best friends with a functional programmer (Haskell junkie or the like), tell them that numbers are nothing more than named constant functions. You'll have a friend for life.. :-D

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        All I can say is "WOW". Do you guys actually think and understand things like that? I mean when you write down "n-tuple of values" are you just doing a bullshit salesman talk or is this matrix of n-dimensional* values spiralling in your head and you understand it like I understand the LOTR? Either way it all sounds impressive. * this is salesman talk as you can see, I have no clue what it means regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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        • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

          George wrote: One reason you already know - crypto stuff. If you know the numbers greater than your enemy then your data are safe. If not - you may as well send all data in the open text. I don't follow your logic here. Whenever they find a really large prime number, it is published freely. There are numerous sites which carries HUGE textfiles of recently found primes. And when that information is published, then your enemy have the same information as you do. Perhaps you are thinking about ciphers using key lengths which to this date are not feasible to crack? And I also fail to see where this helps crypto. Asymmetric ciphers doesn't test if the generated numbers are 100% prime numbers. They use heuristic approaches which gives you about 99.9999999% accuracy (give or take a couple of decimals :)). Sidenote: Verifying a prime number requires lots of computation. How pleased would you be while waiting for PGP to generate your keys? Verifying one key would probably take a couple of minutes (greatly depending on key length). And lets not forget that it will draw a random number. How many random numbers must you draw until you find a prime number? A perfect solution is not tractable. Therefore cryptography in practice doesn't benefit from finding larger prime numbers. And I don't think cryptography in theory benefits either, how could it? Generation of primes is a numerical/analysis thing while cryptography (and cryptology for that matter) is a purely symbolic algebraic thing. George wrote: I think they also look for large numbers to test speed/accuracy/whatever. Just like with the PI - who needs all those billions decimal point digits? This I can agree on to some degre. If you for sure knows which numbers are the first 100 million decimals of PI, then calculating PI is a really good accuracy measure. But.. how can we be sure that those 100 million decimals are the correct ones? Has anyone verified them by hand? And even if so, how can we be sure that no one made a mistake? (Let's not forget the last election in the US.. ;)). I understand that numerical programming techniques will improve over time. And this is probably the only useful thing I see in generating large primes, PI, e, .

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          Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: I don't follow your logic here. Whenever they find a really large prime number, it is published freely. Nah, that is a mere catching up. The really large numbers are to be found amoung CIA, FBI, military and the like. Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: And I also fail to see where this helps crypto. The whole crypto sits on large primes actually. Do the research on your own ;) Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Sidenote: Verifying a prime number requires lots of computation. http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/prove/

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            So Colin is giving me his usual run around on Sonork and this time he is off on the number theory or magical number tangent. Now I don't even pretend to know or like numbers. In fact my Math skills are about as long as John's fuse. So anyway Colin said that 12024562121 is a number with "style". To me it is a random collection of meaningless numbers. In fact if that was my credit card number I might be happier as at least it means something. So does anyone have a clue what is special about 12024562121 and in general what do you think of numbers and number theory? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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            Is there any number like that? The highest I ever heard of is 2^32:suss:

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            • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

              Hahaha! :-D Ok. You got me there. But then again, the course in "Linear Algebra" was not a requirement for me. :cool: so I may be excused for my ignorance. But I do have a question. How does dimensions relate to numbers? If I remember correctly, numbers are just names or symbols for "pure values". How can a value in the most abstract sense be related to dimensions? Wouldn't a value in an n-dimensional space (or whatever the terminology is) be an n-tuple of values? (Is there a short answer to this...? If not, don't go out or your way to explain it to me.) Sidenote: If you wan't to make best friends with a functional programmer (Haskell junkie or the like), tell them that numbers are nothing more than named constant functions. You'll have a friend for life.. :-D

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              Kastellanos Nikos
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              You made me suspicious. My first guess was that the dot-product of a vector of value 12024562121 with the 11-dimension, is a point. ;P Let me redo my calculations and i will let you know the result. ;) Jorgen Sigvardsson wrote: Sidenote: If you wan't to make best friends with a functional programmer (Haskell junkie or the like), tell them that numbers are nothing more than named constant functions. You'll have a friend for life.. If someone believe that, then the universe is a computer, in which the numbers are evaluated each time we refer to them. Even if numbers were written as static functions, God is smart enough to pass the universe application through an opimizing compiler that turn them all into inline. :laugh: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memory leaks is the price we pay \0 01234567890123456789012345678901234

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                How about raw hex? 420665C20E480000 Or even base 5? 12045A2121 * * is that even remotely right? ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves" - August Strindberg

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                Chris Losinger
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                nope. :) here it is in a variety of different bases: base: num 2: 1011001100101110000100000111001001 3: 1011001000100001020122 4: 23030232010013021 5: 144111241441441 6: 5305104033025 7: 603660043265 8: 131456040711 9: 34030301218 10: 12024562121 11: 5110608550 12: 23b7002775 13: 1198284620 14: 820db30a5 15: 4a59c334b 16: 2ccb841c9 17: 1c52e8f6a 18: 11b9bee0h 19: d8b4f36b 20: 97hda561 21: 6e44kcg5 22: 4i14ikdb 23: 3c55625h 24: 2em307lh 25: 1o67lo9l 26: 1co18hkd 27: 1410916h 28: oqj23j5 29: k6735g4 30: gep44hb 31: dh0aljl 32: b6bgge9 33: 9a8e5gb 34: 7qm5cbr 35: 6ix192q and here's the code to do it:

                char buf[40];
                for (int i=2;i<36;i++)
                {
                _i64toa((__int64)12024562121, buf, i);

                  TRACE("%d: %s\\n", i, buf);
                

                }

                -c, geek


                Smaller Animals Software, Inc.

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                • K Kastellanos Nikos

                  You made me suspicious. My first guess was that the dot-product of a vector of value 12024562121 with the 11-dimension, is a point. ;P Let me redo my calculations and i will let you know the result. ;) Jorgen Sigvardsson wrote: Sidenote: If you wan't to make best friends with a functional programmer (Haskell junkie or the like), tell them that numbers are nothing more than named constant functions. You'll have a friend for life.. If someone believe that, then the universe is a computer, in which the numbers are evaluated each time we refer to them. Even if numbers were written as static functions, God is smart enough to pass the universe application through an opimizing compiler that turn them all into inline. :laugh: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memory leaks is the price we pay \0 01234567890123456789012345678901234

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                  Kastellanos Nikos wrote: My first guess was that the dot-product of a vector of value 12024562121 with the 11-dimension, is a point. When you do, I guess I'll have to blow the dust off my algebra book. I'm not sure however if it contained n-dimensional stuff where n > 3. I remember calculating 3d planes and things like that. I can barely grasp n = 4 if you consider dimension 4 = time (an old physics brain damage). n > 4 gives me head aches. But hey, I'll give it a shot to try to understand your answer, I might just learn something new :) Kastellanos Nikos wrote: If someone believe that, then the universe is a computer, in which the numbers are evaluated each time we refer to them. I never claimed that FP-people were sane.. ;) Allthough, some of their ways of doing stuff is pretty clever.

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                  • P Paul Watson

                    All I can say is "WOW". Do you guys actually think and understand things like that? I mean when you write down "n-tuple of values" are you just doing a bullshit salesman talk or is this matrix of n-dimensional* values spiralling in your head and you understand it like I understand the LOTR? Either way it all sounds impressive. * this is salesman talk as you can see, I have no clue what it means regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                    Paul Watson wrote: Do you guys actually think and understand things like that? I mean when you write down "n-tuple of values" are you just doing a bullshit salesman talk or is this matrix of n-dimensional* values spiralling in your head and you understand it like I understand the LOTR? I solemnly swear I'm not a salesman ;). My experience with sales personell has been less than perfect. If they're on the other side, they'll bullshit you. If they're on your side, they'll bullshit the customer, which in turn will generate more work for you. An n-tuple is basically an ordered collection of n values (may be homogenous or hetrogenous wrt type). Surely you must have heard of tuples before in the context of databases? A row is basically a tuple, and a table is a set of tuples.

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                    • Y Yuri Gershanov

                      Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Perhaps its a prime number. It's divisible by 11. Yuri

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                      And 13. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com

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                        Is there any number like that? The highest I ever heard of is 2^32:suss:

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                        Here's one higher: 2^32 + 1. :) /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com

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                        • K Kastellanos Nikos

                          You made me suspicious. My first guess was that the dot-product of a vector of value 12024562121 with the 11-dimension, is a point. ;P Let me redo my calculations and i will let you know the result. ;) Jorgen Sigvardsson wrote: Sidenote: If you wan't to make best friends with a functional programmer (Haskell junkie or the like), tell them that numbers are nothing more than named constant functions. You'll have a friend for life.. If someone believe that, then the universe is a computer, in which the numbers are evaluated each time we refer to them. Even if numbers were written as static functions, God is smart enough to pass the universe application through an opimizing compiler that turn them all into inline. :laugh: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memory leaks is the price we pay \0 01234567890123456789012345678901234

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                          ColinDavies
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                          Hey have you got a metric-tensor App, And if so what does it run on ? Regardz Colin J Davies

                          Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

                          I live in Bob's HungOut now

                          Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler and of course Billy Connerly

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                          • R Ravi Bhavnani

                            Here's one higher: 2^32 + 1. :) /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com

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                            Hey Ravi, Isn't there like an ultra big number in "Hindu" time status ? Or am i confussing myself here ? Regardz Colin J Davies

                            Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

                            I live in Bob's HungOut now

                            Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler and of course Billy Connerly

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                              Hey Ravi, Isn't there like an ultra big number in "Hindu" time status ? Or am i confussing myself here ? Regardz Colin J Davies

                              Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

                              I live in Bob's HungOut now

                              Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler and of course Billy Connerly

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                              Dunno. The only really big number I hear bandied about is the "google", which stands for a number "larger than infinity" (actually 10^100 - see http://watson-net.com/jargon/jargon.asp?w=google). /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com

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                              • Y Yuri Gershanov

                                Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Perhaps its a prime number. It's divisible by 11. Yuri

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                                Ouch!!! Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                  And 13. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com

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                                  double ouch!!!!!!!!!! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                    double ouch!!!!!!!!!! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                    More proof that I have *way* too much time on my hands. :) /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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