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Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large Numbers
Science Alert ^
| 10/17/19
| Peter Dockrill
Posted on 10/22/2019 2:00:33 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: All
5318008 is the ONLY number that matters.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Actually, one of the smallest numbers there is. Admittedly, one the largest numbers you will ever encounter, but there are infinitely more numbers larger than it, and only a finite number smaller. But one will always be the loneliest number.
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posted on
10/22/2019 7:50:23 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
But one will always be the loneliest number.
I don't know. Two can be as bad as one.
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
10/22/2019 8:16:19 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
To: mmichaels1970
“5318008 is the ONLY number that matters.”
All this time I thought it was 8675309.
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posted on
10/22/2019 8:19:23 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Now that’s a beautiful example of how sometimes pedantry can be utterly hilarious!
Well done, sirrah!
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:20:33 AM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Louis Foxwell
I think the most valuable lesson to be derived from this exercise is that even the most mundane of issues (long multiplication) is not “settled science”.
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:29:17 AM PDT
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
To: Bonemaker
Pffft. You call 1234567890.12 a “large” number?
To: CrazyIvan; mmichaels1970
Who wins when 710 Iraqis, 773 Iranians and 45 Saudis get together?
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:32:11 AM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Rockingham
It can be applied empirically to speed up large number computations even in the absence of full theoretical proof. Only two problems:
1. You would have no confidence in the results.
2. The point of the paper is advance knowledge, not guesswork.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:34:40 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneoWhat will it take to get her investigated for immigration fraud involving a marriage t)
To: Bonemaker
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Are you an astronomist?😃
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:44:06 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneoWhat will it take to get her investigated for immigration fraud involving a marriage t)
To: mmichaels1970
To: Bonemaker
To: mythenjoseph
It takes longer to read this article than it does to acces your calculator app on your phone.
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:55:25 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Moonman62
Thats blasphemous! We all know that it was muslims who advanced our learning of math and science! /s
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posted on
10/22/2019 10:58:58 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Aha, then you are into some pretty heavy duty scientific notation!
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posted on
10/22/2019 11:23:37 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneoWhat will it take to get her investigated for immigration fraud involving a marriage t)
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posted on
10/22/2019 12:44:17 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: NTHockey
Still have my Dad’s log log decitrig and my shorty K&E from 1963.
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