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Yoni | [01:48:57] Yoni: "graduate school" means "2nd degree"? [01:49:04] Nate: after bachelors [01:49:13] Yoni: yes [01:49:22] Yoni: in hebrew we call it "1st degree" and "2nd degree" [01:49:30] Nate: what about 2.5 degree? [01:49:38] Yoni: ph.d. we call "doctorate" [01:49:44] Nate: bad! [01:49:48] Yoni: or sometimes "3rd degree" [01:49:55] Nate: they should make the degrees progress like this [01:50:09] Nate: first degree = .5, second = .75, third = half that distance and so forth [01:50:15] Nate: and you never reach the highest degree [01:50:17] Yoni: hehe [01:50:24] Yoni: b.a. = 0.5 [01:50:30] Yoni: m.a. = 0.75 [01:50:36] Yoni: ph.d. = 0.875 [01:50:38] Yoni: euler = 1 [01:50:42] Nate: lol [01:50:47] Nate: no [01:50:51] Nate: Euler has complex numbers [01:50:53] Nate: so Euler = 2 [01:50:56] Yoni: n'th degree = 1 - 2^-n [01:50:59] Nate: with magic of complex numbers [01:51:05] Yoni: making euler the infinite'th degree [01:51:18] Nate: yes but with n = complex [01:51:21] Nate: Euler can be 2 [01:51:22] Nate: or more [01:51:25] Yoni: yeah [01:51:31] Nate: Euler has complex numbers [01:51:38] Nate: and he came up with a way to do n^complex power [01:51:40] Nate: so he is 2 [01:51:57] Yoni: n = -log_2(-1) gives you "2" [01:52:08] Nate: lol hehe [01:52:08] Yoni: what's -log_2(-1) ? [01:52:14] Yoni: -log(-1) / log(2) [01:52:14] Nate: pi/ln(2) [01:52:17] Yoni: log(-1) = ? [01:52:18] Nate: pi*i [01:52:24] Yoni: e^(i*pi) = -1 [01:52:25] Yoni: so yep [01:52:30] Nate: pi*i / ln 2 [01:52:30] Yoni: that's -i*pi/log(2) [01:52:38] Nate: yep [01:52:40] Yoni: great [01:52:52] Yoni: so Euler has the -i*pi/log(2)'th degree [01:52:57] Yoni: that's it [01:52:59] Yoni: he wins [01:53:05] Nate: :D | October 9, 2005, 12:00 AM |
Explicit[nK] | You have the most interesting conversations, :( | October 9, 2005, 12:14 AM |
CrAzY | ...? | October 12, 2005, 1:22 AM |
KkBlazekK | Yay for Euler![size=0pt] and yoni![/size] | October 13, 2005, 4:18 AM |