torontotrucho wrote: miguel wrote: i had a professor in university who was crazy about the number 0. he wrote a book and the first chapter was chapter 0 The mayans in central america knew about the concept of cero long before the europeans, it was represented as a "concha", and they used the binary system ( 1 and 0 ) to do astronomical and mathematic calculations. Amazing eh!.?
Actually.....the babylonians had it first a a place holder in their numeric system.......The mayans had it later.......I'm pretty sure that's how it went......I'll double check...
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i had a professor in university who was crazy about the number 0. he wrote a book and the first chapter was chapter 0
The mayans in central america knew about the concept of cero long before the europeans, it was represented as a "concha", and they used the binary system ( 1 and 0 ) to do astronomical and mathematic calculations. Amazing eh!.?
Bainaman wrote: I just read up a bit on this one........How the most insignigicant change in anything....can alter the eventual outcome dramatically....... For example: The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141) Wasnt this the premise for an Austin Kusher movie?
Losely...yeah. He tries to go back in time to make his life better....but finds out that every time he changes something for the better......something else is twice as worse.
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Bainaman wrote: I just read up a bit on this one........How the most insignigicant change in anything....can alter the eventual outcome dramatically....... For example: The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)
Wasnt this the premise for an Austin Kusher movie?
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what? you found Manuel Noreaga? In the Phillipines? He has a mansion? Ok, we on it, on it, right now!
Not too long ago.....I read a book called "The Book of Nothing"
Very interesting book on the evolution of 'nothing'...from it's origin as the number 0....to it's theological importance. It's amazing at how much comes from nothing at all. It's weird.
To understand the "nothing"...this book went into also explain other aspects that relate to it's existance.....Like....."infinitum".......
For example: How can someone really get any where? If the distance between two place is 10 metres.....the half way point will be five metres. Half of that would be 2.5 metres...and half of that would be 1.25......so on and so forth.....at infinitum......No wonder Daeveed is perpetually lost....lol
Anyone familiar with the chaos theory?!?!?
I just read up a bit on this one........How the most insignigicant change in anything....can alter the eventual outcome dramatically.......
For example:
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)
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"Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission."
"Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission."
too much sometimes.
