For all you who criticised when I suggested CO2 blocks incoming IR from the sun, NASA agree with me.
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I'm actually not very familiar with octonians, but based on my understanding of them, here goes: The complex numbers were used to extend the real numbers so that every polynomial of degree n (highest power) could have exactly n not necessarily unique solutions; so, for example, x^5 = 1 has exactly 5 solutions. Quaternions were a kind of intellectual exercise to extend the complex numbers in a way that preserves certain properties of them - however, they have an interesting feature that given two quaternions A and B, A.B =/= B.A in general. This is called noncommutativity over multiplication. Octonians took it one ridiculous step further, and not only are they not commutative, they're not associative either, which means that (A.B).C =/= A.(B.C), unlike say real numbers where (5.3).4 = 5.(3.4) = 60.
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Almost anything is polssible given the state of ignorance about what does affect the climate.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
fat_boy wrote:
Almost anything is polssible given the state of ignorance about what does affect the climate.
Including AGW? :)
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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fat_boy wrote:
Almost anything is polssible given the state of ignorance about what does affect the climate.
Including AGW? :)
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Check and mate :laugh:
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Check and mate :laugh:
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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fat_boy wrote:
Almost anything is polssible given the state of ignorance about what does affect the climate.
Including AGW? :)
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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I'm actually not very familiar with octonians, but based on my understanding of them, here goes: The complex numbers were used to extend the real numbers so that every polynomial of degree n (highest power) could have exactly n not necessarily unique solutions; so, for example, x^5 = 1 has exactly 5 solutions. Quaternions were a kind of intellectual exercise to extend the complex numbers in a way that preserves certain properties of them - however, they have an interesting feature that given two quaternions A and B, A.B =/= B.A in general. This is called noncommutativity over multiplication. Octonians took it one ridiculous step further, and not only are they not commutative, they're not associative either, which means that (A.B).C =/= A.(B.C), unlike say real numbers where (5.3).4 = 5.(3.4) = 60.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I'm actually not very familiar with octonians, but based on my understanding of them, here goes:
Just so you know...that's where you lost my interest. wow...definitely agree with Ian...glad I didn't major in math.
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Little bit of advice, give up trying to look clever all the time. I know you want to impress people here, you've already done that. Relax a bit, have a laugh more. Tell some crap jokes. :)
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
I'm not trying to impress people.
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I'm not trying to impress people.
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I'm not trying to impress people.
Ambiguity, thy name is Ravel H. Joyce. :-D
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NOT NOT NOT! :suss: ;P
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I'm actually not very familiar with octonians, but based on my understanding of them, here goes:
Just so you know...that's where you lost my interest. wow...definitely agree with Ian...glad I didn't major in math.
William Winner wrote:
Just so you know...that's where you lost my interest.
Phh. Anybody can just talk about something they have a clue about. :laugh: It was hardly a rigorous treatment of the nature of octonians.
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Trying to be serious here, give it a chance at least. :)
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription