/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16054792
grug notes some sticks larger than other sticks.
modernist mathematician defines stick without stick

keep on zooming in on your 'real' diagonal of a square of side length 1, you'll never see the tip of it. Your time is better spent appreciating the harmonic overtones of a fretless instrument

>>15804890
For posterity we can divide sqrt2 into its radix and its incommensurate portion, but as mmp makes clear, not all invomennsurabilities are the same surely 286 repeating is more ordered than gobblygook, what numbers can you multiply with ybc 7289 that give perfect commensurability that wouldnt at a different level of precison?

>>15274025
No, since you only need 1 dimension to draw it.
sqrt(2) on the other hand, definitely doesn't exist, by no means can it be consider a 'real' number

>>15060712
more people need to comprehend etymology before they go about naming things like 'real numbers'

>>15060297
sqrt(2) will exist in my heart when an anon show me how to measure the in-commensurable portion and not just hide behind the radix

>>15044200

>>15031404
just that there is a step between in the middle.

namely that there is an incommensurable portion of the length that even with a perfect microscope could never be measured

>>15016962
maybe for autism as its "From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”).[3]"

John Gabriel is pretty based though

>>15010304
based sqrt(2) poster