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« on: May 7th, 2009, 5:30pm »
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I came across quite accidentally this forum where it discusses
 
http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=128
 
 
I'm not familiar with "structural geometry"
 
Then, on the same site, I found at  
 
http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=143
 
y = x2 + 16
 
y' at x=3
 
the author finds y'= 10 ... it's quite extraordinary!
Okay, this result is bogus. But what about the so-called "structural geometry" at the first link ?
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« Reply #1 on: May 8th, 2009, 12:12am »
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There's probably a reason why all replies in that thread are spam.
It's not clear what he's trying to do, nor are his equations even correct in many cases.
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« Reply #2 on: May 8th, 2009, 1:03am »
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It's awesome- it's like a ghost town or something. ) registered users, 1 guest, when I looked.
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« Reply #3 on: Jun 29th, 2009, 12:15pm »
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We start with 2
The second digit is twice the first, the third is twice the second, etc., with "carries" added in as we go along ...
and then we stop when we find a number starting with 10.
 
................................2                  
..............................42                  
............................842                
........................16842              
......................136842              
......................736842                              
..................14736842                    
..................94736842                  
..............1894736842                          
............17894736842                        
..........157894736842                        
........1157894736842                        
........3157894736842                        
......63157894736842                      
...1263157894736842                      
...5263157894736842                    
105263157894736842  
 
 
Moving the last 2 to the front gives 210526315789473684, manifestly twice 105263157894736842.
 
This blog also contains Dr. Mutalik's explanation of the phenomenon in terms of arithmetic mod 19.
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« Reply #4 on: Jun 29th, 2009, 12:34pm »
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_number
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« Reply #5 on: Jun 29th, 2009, 1:23pm »
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on Jun 29th, 2009, 12:34pm, towr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_number

 
Thanks for the link. These numbers are intriguing.
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« Reply #6 on: Jul 14th, 2009, 12:08pm »
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Has anyone done this experiment:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB1vd8614gg
 
 
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« Reply #7 on: Jul 14th, 2009, 1:25pm »
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction#Data_ storage
 
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« Reply #8 on: Sep 18th, 2009, 2:57pm »
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Binary Clock
 
It has a detail PDF document
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« Reply #9 on: Sep 28th, 2009, 2:09pm »
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Have you seen this book : A = B?
 
 
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« Reply #10 on: Oct 13th, 2009, 1:55pm »
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The Book of Odds is an online statistical encyclopedia.
 
The Book of Odds is a searchable online database of “odds statements,” the probabilities of everyday life.
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« Reply #11 on: May 12th, 2010, 7:14pm »
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I've just read the following: The sum of digits of prime numbers is evenly distributed
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« Reply #12 on: Sep 8th, 2010, 10:44pm »
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Furstenberg's Proof of the Infinitude of Primes
 
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Perhaps the strangest is the following topological proof by Fόrstenberg

 
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/proofs/infinite/topproof.html
 
What makes this proof so strange?
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« Reply #13 on: Sep 9th, 2010, 7:25am »
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on Sep 8th, 2010, 10:44pm, BenVitale wrote:
Furstenberg's Proof of the Infinitude of Primes
 
 
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/proofs/infinite/topproof.html
 
What makes this proof so strange?

If you look at the other proofs listed on that site, they are all couched in the language of arithmetic. They talk about taking a list of distinct primes (or a list of numbers that represent distinct primes), performing arithmetic operations on them, and producing a number that represents a new prime.
 
The topological proof is, unsurprisingly, couched in the language of topology, so, while it's actually saying pretty much the same thing as the other proofs - that no finite set of primes can cover the integers with their multiples - there will always be some numbers that aren't divisible by any of the primes in the set, it's saying it in an unusual way.  
 
Also, it's a non-constructive existence proof - it doesn't tell you anything about how to find these non-multiples, just that they must exist - the other proofs all tell you where to look for your new prime.
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« Reply #14 on: Nov 30th, 2011, 2:42pm »
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A regular expression to check for prime numbers
 
http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check- for-prime-numbers/
 
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« Reply #15 on: Nov 30th, 2011, 10:11pm »
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It actually checks for non-primes Tongue
And it's a bit irregular for a regular expression, since you can't translate it to a finite state machine.
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