Crispy 8 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 That depends. Done any university maths? (Or advanced high-school maths...) Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
greebo 86 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 As a matter of fact, yes, more than you want to know, believe me. (Technical Physics is half mathematics) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Schatten 6 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Is this a bizarre game? Can I play with you? Anybody up for a game of Busy Beaver? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Stop it Schatten, you're turning me on! Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
Nyarlathotep 0 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Anybody up for a game of Busy Beaver?Busy Beaver is for noobs! Let's plot the Ackermann function! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ishtvan 17 Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I think it's time for a good game of pin the ground state eigenfunction on the potential! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Busy Beaver is for noobs! Let's plot the Ackermann function!Psh. Computable functions are so passé. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
Nyarlathotep 0 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 But... I like recursion! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Schatten 6 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Hey guys, we can compromise on Σ(A(m,n)) Maths - everyone gets pleased!™ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 But surely that just simplifies to infinity (assuming that m, n can be any non-negative integers, since you didn't specify). Boring! (If you restrict the domains of m and n so that the result is finite, then it of course is computable.) Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
Schatten 6 Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Huh, do I really have to explicitly rule out the trivial cases? I thought I shared this forum with SPARTAAAA MEN. Tsk! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nyarlathotep 0 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 But surely that just simplifies to infinity (assuming that m, n can be any non-negative integers, since you didn't specify). Boring! (If you restrict the domains of m and n so that the result is finite, then it of course is computable.)That's too easy! Haven't you ever heard of divergent summation? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Huh, do I really have to explicitly rule out the trivial cases?Actually, yes. Pure mathematics: Pedantry at its most refined. That's too easy! Haven't you ever heard of divergent summation?Not really, no... I guess they don't teach that here in first year. I went and looked it up and I don't see the point of applying such methods to the Ackermann function, but I guess it doesn't need a point. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
Nyarlathotep 0 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Not really, no... I guess they don't teach that here in first year.I haven't been taught it either, but as far as I can tell, divergent summation really only has applications in quantum physics (renormalization) and obscure mathematics. I went and looked it up and I don't see the point of applying such methods to the Ackermann function, but I guess it doesn't need a point. Since when did this thread have a point? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Since when did this thread have a point?Well, it did. Before it got horribly horribly derailed. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
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