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Original Message 1/10 26-Jul-07 @ 01:33 PM - nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
what i found interesting about the second one was that Gauss made two dice, one with 8 sides and one with 12 sides to try to calculate a pattern of occurance
then later some guy used geometry, anyways interestingly in islamic geometry those shapes/patterns like you see in the alhambra etc resolve always to 8 or 12 , wierd
there is some old saying in Islamic geometry about "If you study this geometry, therein lies all the secrets of the universe"
bizzare stuff anyways, but there was one thing they never explained which was this continual reference to positions of zeros in a line, but they didnt explain what that meant, damn!
anyone see it? amazing stuff
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Message 2/10 27-Jul-07 @ 09:45 AM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
as was this (until i stopped understanding it!)
New Scientist
Message 3/10 27-Jul-07 @ 12:56 PM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
i wish it was online to watch
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 4/10 28-Jul-07 @ 09:42 AM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
Message 5/10 28-Jul-07 @ 02:39 PM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 6/10 28-Jul-07 @ 04:59 PM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
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Message 7/10 28-Jul-07 @ 06:22 PM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
ars digita the shai simonson fella is a great lecturer, if you're into discrete maths, algorithms and theory of computation.
only real video on there, but i''ve downloaded them all and converted to dvds. and what a pain in the arse that is, i always hated real video, now i'm pathological.
check here for more science videos
and here
google and yahoo have some cool lectures and talks up as well.
Message 8/10 29-Jul-07 @ 04:16 AM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
Good thread. Not sure what Islamic geometry is though I thought maths was above that sort of thing. I agree with you, it's fascinating stuff. By the zeros in line, did they mean a 'nothing' in a sequence? As in the number 20302? I believe the Arabs were the first to use this idea a long, long time ago. I think the shape of our numbers is also from the Arabs isn't it? On a course I did, I was told that each numeric symbol had a corresponding number of angles; so 0 has no angles, 1 has one, 2 has two, etc. (It's necessary to get a bit arty in places but it's a great idea all the same)
New Scientist always has something to ponder on.
Great links Bedwyr. That free uni looks interesting. Sometimes though, I think that however the physical laws worked out, there would be an entity marvelling at how well crafted it all is for their particular existence.
Message 9/10 30-Jul-07 @ 01:37 PM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
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i dunno what they meant by the zeros, it wasnt made clear at all, cant find anything mentioning it in wiki's basic prime number page either
i just suspect something about a relationship, that it has to be converted into a 3d model to work at which ppoint by bending it it will resolve perfectly somehow
anyways look what you can make with a light wave (attached picture) resolves beautifuly to octagons, but getting it to resolve is the question
i made that using the transverse light wave located here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Wave
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 10/10 30-Jul-07 @ 01:54 PM - RE: nerd alert - did anyone see ....?
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you can arrange them like this also, again getting it to resolve is an issue
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
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