/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3642083
aliens are virtually hard /sci/fi if done right. No telepathy or telekinesis, no morphing, no gravity on spaceships, and you're all good.

>>3641753
>>3641751
I'm stumped then. Don't know of many simple paradoxes, unfortunately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes#Mathematics

>>3641738
Know the boy or girl problem?

>>3639592
Internal Set Theory.
The two views were from mathematical and physical perspectives, not opinions.

>>3639557
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Set_Theory
You can have numbers at the end, but not with reals.

>>3639522
not a real number.

>>3639498
You either wrote 0...1.1... or it was gibbersh. I have no Idea why you are telling me 0.0...1 isn't a number as I have maintained this all along.

>>3639491
Ask any mathematician if 178 divided by 502 is a number.

>>3639475
Well this one time I did get 100% in a geography test

>>3639456
I'm making the claim that 1/2 is equal to 0.5, which is a number.
>>3639458
I..
What?

>>3639439
Neither are you, and you're the one making the claim.
>>3639437
Ah. I haven't seen anything like that used on anything like this in the past.

>>3639424
I love polite informative responses.

>>3639417
They're all <span class="math"> expressions [/spoiler]
>>3639421
7 represents 7. 6+1 represents the value of 6, represented by the 6, and 1, represented by the 1.

>>3639407
so you're saying that outside of the set of which the number consists the number can be different?

>>3639390
they represent the same value. Some of them describe it in other terms, but one of them describes the actual value of that number. It's like the difference between "Barack Obama" and "A president with a black father, with a degree in law".

>>3639365
when it is worked out*

An equation isn't an answer to a question, it's the way in which the question can be answered. While its logical result is the same, it is not in itself.
>>3639374
Explain it.

>>3639356
I love you. Thanks.

>>3639343
Internal Set Theory isn't a study, and I'm not sure how it's relevant.

>>3639305
Eugh.
>>3639312
I guess not. Anyone know how to use enter in LaTeX?
>>3639309
When you work out that 1+6 is the same as 7 and swap it in.
>>3639318
You wrote 10/9. As there's no number at the start of that initial infinity, there's no reason for it to exist. If there were one and it weren't 0, then it would be impossible.
>>3639334
I'd prefer being able to drop down a line, thanks though.

<div class="math">
Haters_{gonna^{hate}}
Also I want to see if enter works in <div class="math"> tags.</div></div>

>>3639281
Taken as a yes. Age/location/favourite state of matter?
>>3639283
Equivalent to is not the same as the same as. They are not necessarily synonyms. Yes, practically, they can be used the exact same way, but they are not the same thing until they're worked out. Not sure how I can explain this further.

>>3639266
1+6 is equivalent to 7. It can be interchanged with 7. It is not, however, 7 in itself until it is computed.
>>3639271
Want to have non-gay sex?

>>3639243
I have some whores
I have 7 whores
therefore "some" is a number

Nope.

>>3639234
From a mathematical point of view, that's an impossible number. If the 0s are infinite, then they're not going to be appended by anything.

From a physics point of view, nothing actually touches beyond fields in normal man-on-man action. You're safe from either perspective unless your balls are radioactive.