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Sunday Function:
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
All right, here's a fun one. It usually comes as part of a story. The story as told is mostly true, though a few details have been a little fudged by the winds of history. It goes like this: when...
Posted by Matt Springer at 12:34 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
Find the function, with a prize!
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
The vast majority of the functions we've talked about over all these Sundays have been ones that are expressible as a relationship between two numbers x and y. Sometimes the relationship is simple, sometimes it's fairly complicated. Mostly though, we...
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
Anybody heard of the idea of The Singularity? Roughly, it goes like this: technological progress builds on itself, and this self-reinforcing feedback loop is eventually going to come to a head where humanity makes a quantum leap into an unknowable...
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
I think we've developed a nice theme over the last few weeks, gradually working our way through a less well-behaved function - the triangle wave - and trying to find various series expansions for it. "Well-behaved" is kind of a...
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
Sorry for the two-day delay. The personal business to which I alluded kept me out until yesterday morning, delaying this post until today. I hope it's decent for all that! This week, the same function as last week. There's nothing...
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
There's an interesting book I'm working on called The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization, by historian Brian Ward-Perkins. He argues (against a prominent modern school of thought) that Rome did indeed fall rather than merely change, and...
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
All right ladies and gentlemen, take out your calculators. Punch in the number 4. Whack the square root button. What do you get? Unless I am badly mistaken, you're going to get the number 2. As you probably remember, the...
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Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
You know what's gonna happen? I'll tell you what's gonna happen. Troops are now forming behind the line of trees. When they come out, they'll be under enemy long-range artillery fire. Solid shot. Percussion. Every gun they have. Troops will...
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