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ITT: God tier graphs
>>7944356
Isn't that just a straight line at y = 1?
>>7944360
Not for irrational numbers
ITT: """"""functions""""""
Hey there. So I have ran into an equation I can't solve. It involves absolute values and powers of x.
I've tried going to online calculators but found no aid, except in wolfram alpha, but I don't have access to their explanations. If anybody knows how to solve this, I'd be all ears.
Thanks. OP.
>>7944182
have you tried 1
>>7944182
Let [math]x = i^0[/math]
>>7944185
Yeah, it works, but I'd like to know a system for resolution of the problem, instead of just trial and error.
What would happen if I bleached my clothes with sodium hypofluorite instead of sodium hypochlorite? Would I get more bleaching power or less?
>>7943857
you'd die a very very painful death
What about cesium hypofluorite? Would changing the cation up or down Group I have an effect on how well it cleans laundry?
>>7943867
you will still die of fluorine poisoning
What is the scientific reason for antinatalism?
>>7943695
>antinatalism
>>7943695
>antinatalism
>>7943695
The same as that for white guilt probably.
1. What purpose does the field of mathematics serve to the public?
2. What benefit do you get out of studying mathematics that you otherwise would not have?
>>7943433
>What purpose does the field of mathematics serve to the public?
Almost nothing, philosophy is what build democracy, empires, armies, etc
>What benefit do you get out of studying mathematics that you otherwise would not have?
Having to memorize a lot of equations that you will never use is good for memorizing stuff that you will use
>>7943433
1. Math "trickles down", corollaries fall through from pure to applied and from applied to natural sciences, eventually becoming tools for use in physics, biology, engineering, chemistry, etc.
2. Math is like an art. Keeps the brain sharp, and allows me to explore a highly technical creative activity which I enjoy.
>>7943433
>1.
Literally everything.
>2.
I just find it interesting.
If space is a hologram, then isn't there reason to believe that our hologram is a hologram within a hologram? Wouldn't the hologram theory be subject to a fractal continuation of holograms within holograms within holograms and so on?
cogito ergo sum
>>7943416
you are what? you don't know the body you know isn't a hologram
the real answer is: we don't know. we can't know. we don't care. these questions are useless. we could be in a dream for all we care, it doesn't matter
>>7943410
>and so on?
That's where your stoner bullshit hits its limits.
I have a laptop.
No matter how "virtual" our reality is, the computing power of my laptop is real.
If we're living in a simulation, computing power of my laptop is a subset of the computing power of the simulator.
If we build a holographic universe, its inhabitants might build a simulated universe of their own.
But the ultimate top-end simulator MUST possess a limited amount of processing...
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Is it a good thing for P=NP to be true?
P!=NP should be a physical law.
The universe would be fundamentally different if it were true.
>>7943295
>I talk about thinks no one knows as if I knew them and my word was fact
you're an idiot
>algorithm for linear-speed factoring found
>all cryptosystems fail
>banking system collapses due to mass theft
>internet is doomed as a place to actually do anything related to the real world because of no privacy and security
>anonymity and full information sharing only
many cons, one pro
I have some questions. I consider myself very ignorant when it comes to biology in general but DNA especially is a mystery to me.
I've been thinking about how we view creatures and group them. Chimpanzees are apparently very close to us genetically. The 90+% shared DNA thing. So a lot of the genetic information seems to have been used to define the humanoid shape with head, arms and legs fingers and stuff. That last 10% make us human in some way. But could you say that since evolution works. The weaker species die out (neanderthal etc) the more we evolve to fit...
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>>7942968
>it can't really be a chaotic system where small changes make big differences
it is exactly that
>So could there be a correlation between lack of diversity in a society and success?
imagine there is a small population with lack of diversity, say a group of aryans, perfect looking on the outside. mutations happen, nothing cant stop that, sometimes they can be reversed, sometimes they remain, they replicate during dna replication etc,...
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>>7942968
With chimpanzee we have 1% difference in our genes. What has been told to me, our alleles are quite different however. Meaning that our gene to build toe is in the same place, but the actual building data is very different.
