Things

[jack]

Things I've done, not in any particular order.

* Got up at 8.30.
* Bought gel inner tube and more tyre patches.
* Bought extension cables (:p sonic). Albeit in the fourth shop on Newmarket road I went in.
* Reading Cryptonomicon again. It is still good. Is it one of the marks of a classic book that you keep noticing new things every time you reread it?
* Joined atreic and emporer and people in the Castle (their local! just beyond the post box, how cool?) for food and drink. There I:
* Had two binges
* Collected final word on my flowery shirt. I thought they were cheery (and incidently cheap) but everyone, friends and colleages, says 'no'. Though atreic said "no (but I like it)".
* I said many embarassing things some of which got written down ("Being short and froglike is more important than getting the girl").
* I am perceived as short person, despite not being really. This is interesting because I tend to do that, but wasn't sure how much other people did. I don't know if it's psychological, or if I just hunch, and either way if that's from deprecatingness or something else.
* There was mutual hand massaging. This is very relaxing.

Otherly, how come my last post got nearly 50 comments? I should haylp more often, assuming getting comments is the goal in life :)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ooh. That's as cool -- in a different way -- to having come across it in the wild of some genuine computing problem :) Maths is fun, neh? :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

hm. well, maybe I came across it? I dunno. I was trying to work something out, and I worked out that it might be that. But actually I think it's possibly more than that.

I'll probably find I was completely wrong and the answer was 42.

maths are fun, but too hard for me.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"maths are fun, but too hard for me."

LOL at plural :)

"I'll probably find I was completely wrong and the answer was 42."

Yep. Or 1, or 0, or e. Coming across things is what maths is. And if someone else already knows it, you just know you have to keep trying 10E7 times and eventually you'll find a new one, get Simon to solve it, and be a mathematician and get a phd or a fields medal or something

[mair_in_grenderich]

I don't think it's 1, or 0, or e, I'm sure it's larger than 12, for sufficiently large N. Does that mean it must be 42?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Insofar as you can assign a number as the answer to a graph...

Um, in that case the answer is probably infinity. That's the fifth most common :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

infinity is pretty. I'll take infinity then :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

We have a wide selection of infinities, Madam. Would you like something in our countable range? Some come in positive and negative versions. But our plane boundary is very popular, contains both for the price of one. For the... adventurous woman, we even have some things more exotic, perhaps an inacessable infinity? Or even a strongly inaccessable infinity? Can I show you some samples? *gets out protractor*

:)

[mair_in_grenderich]

*looks small*
I wanted the one that looks like an 8 on its side ... ?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, the classic model. A very wise choice, acceptable in almost all situations. Would Madam like a 'oo'? Or a '∞'? Or even a ''? We hope you enjoy your selection from our non-existant number range, please return if it fails to give satisfaction in any way.

[mair_in_grenderich]

oh, the midde one, definitely.

thank you *so* much.

*runs off clutching her infinity to her chest*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

/me is scary :(

[mair_in_grenderich]

you can run off with me if you like :D

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hand in hand, being pursued by a giant Cantor crashing through mathematics like Gozirra through Tokyo...

[mair_in_grenderich]

*now* you're getting scary...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

[mair_in_grenderich]

It's the giant Cantor imagery that's scaring me.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I didn't think that was particularly more surreal than the Cardinal Boutique sketch... :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

I'm not scared by surreal, I'm scared by things being "giant" and "crashing" and pursuing me through tokyo.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I think this one is the fiftieth, it should collapse...

LOL. Fair enough. But it isn't real. And it's not through Tokyo. It's *like* through Tokyo :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

*collapses*

it's not real? aw. you've shattered my illusions.

Infinity

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

No. Real numbers are members of R, definitely oo isn't :)

Re: Infinity

[mair_in_grenderich]

*cries*

Re: Infinity

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

/me is scary :( :)

Re: Infinity

[mair_in_grenderich]

*goes to hide in a corner and wait for the world to go away and nice infinities to come with sparkly things*

Re: Infinity

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Shiny!