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Re: supertasks
« Reply #50 on: Sep 16th, 2007, 8:43am » |
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on Sep 14th, 2007, 7:21pm, srn347 wrote:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Odasity
doesn't exist
http://m-w.com/dictionary/Odasity
doesn't exist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Odasity
for some reason gives lists of asteroids..?!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Odasity
doesn't exist.
http://dict.die.net/?q=Odasity
doesn't exist.
Any other dictionaries you could suggest to look up this 'word' in?
Or is it perhaps time to revise the spelling..?
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #51 on: Sep 16th, 2007, 12:31pm » |
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Here's a superdupertask for everyone!! How do we improve srn347? 
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #52 on: Sep 16th, 2007, 12:42pm » |
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Maybe the way you improve wine, lay it in a rack in the cellar, rotate it every day, and hope it improves with age.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #53 on: Sep 16th, 2007, 3:58pm » |
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Spammers! Anyway, perhaps odacity is the correct spelling of it. Here's an ultratask for you to do: quit spamming!
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #54 on: Sep 16th, 2007, 9:53pm » |
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on Sep 16th, 2007, 3:58pm, srn347 wrote:| Spammers! Anyway, perhaps odacity is the correct spelling of it. Here's an ultratask for you to do: quit spamming! |
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LOL... JiNbOtAk had the correct spelling... it is "audacity"... I find it infinitely amusing that even in your attempted insults you are incapable of presenting a coherent thought or argument... next time if you really can't be bothered learning correct spelling at least go to the trouble of copying and pasting into a word document so spell check can save our eyes from the most offensive of your errors.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #55 on: Sep 16th, 2007, 11:30pm » |
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Firefox 2 has a built-in spell checker. Really convenient.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #56 on: Sep 17th, 2007, 6:36am » |
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They already have firefox 2! I have firefox 1.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #57 on: Sep 17th, 2007, 7:51am » |
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on Sep 17th, 2007, 6:36am, srn347 wrote:| They already have firefox 2! I have firefox 1. |
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There's even a Firefox 3, but they stopped supporting 1.x (only critical updates), so I upgraded to 2.x; I haven't regretted it.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #58 on: Sep 17th, 2007, 6:05pm » |
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Have they invented vista 2?
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #59 on: Sep 22nd, 2007, 8:54pm » |
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theyre past vista 2... vista 5.31 just came out... incidently 5-31 is my BDAY WOOT
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cuz everybody noe that the game dont stop try to make it to the top fo ur ass get popped
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #60 on: Sep 22nd, 2007, 10:08pm » |
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Really? Anyway, time for another supertask. Anyway, you all know the infinite hotel thing I assume. How do you fill it with infinity squared people(each group of infinite people in one of the infinite buses). There are at least two answers.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #61 on: Sep 23rd, 2007, 5:59am » |
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Well, since a countable infinity squared is not more than a countable infinity, you can just apply the same trick.
Method 1:
- Move all hotel guests from room n to room 2n.
- Fill in the odd rooms by starting with passenger 1 from group 1, then p. 2 from g. 1 and p. 1 from g. 2, then passengers such that their number in the group plus group number is 4, then 5, etc. Each passenger will eventually be placed in a room.
Method 2:
Move hotel guests from rooms pin to rooms pi2n, where {pi} are the prime numbers.
Move guest j of bus i into room pi2j-1
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #62 on: Sep 23rd, 2007, 4:56pm » |
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Correct. now what about an infinite amount of infinite amounts of infinite amounts of people? or what about an uncountably infinite amount of people.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #63 on: Sep 23rd, 2007, 11:50pm » |
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What about stopping these stupid puzzles?
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #64 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 12:49am » |
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A (countably) infinite number of (countably) infinite number is a (countably) infinite number.
An uncountably infinite number of people won't fit in a countably infinite number of rooms.
on Sep 23rd, 2007, 4:56pm, srn347 wrote:
I know.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #65 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 7:19pm » |
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An uncountable amount will fit. The countably infinite amount of countably infinite amounts of countably infinite people requires more creativity and the uncountably infinite amount will fit. If it didn't, I wouldn't have asked it.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #66 on: Sep 25th, 2007, 1:19am » |
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What do you mean by uncountably infinite amount?
And are we talking about the aleph-0 hotel?
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #67 on: Sep 25th, 2007, 1:31am » |
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on Sep 24th, 2007, 7:19pm, srn347 wrote:| the uncountably infinite amount will fit. If it didn't, I wouldn't have asked it. |
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Sure you would, because you think you know more about how infinity works than you actually do.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #68 on: Sep 25th, 2007, 7:57pm » |
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I know that uncountable infinity is higher than countable infinity, but so is countably infinite squared and it fits.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #69 on: Sep 25th, 2007, 11:34pm » |
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on Sep 25th, 2007, 7:57pm, srn347 wrote:| I know that uncountable infinity is higher than countable infinity, but so is countably infinite squared and it fits. |
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Countably infinite squared fits because it isn't greater than countably infinite. There is a one to one mapping possible from one to the other. For uncountably infinite that is not the case; and without such a mapping, you can't allocate all the guests to a room.
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Re: supertasks
« Reply #70 on: Sep 26th, 2007, 7:43pm » |
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Solve the countable infinity cubed and I'll at anyones request explain how to fit an uncountable infinity in it.
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