math

17:25:07 Porygon2 17:16:48 BaconMaster So, why do we even take math classes if everything is everything?
17:25:23 Porygon2 we just try to ignore anything over 0 and it works
17:25:40 Porygon2 well, except for really high-level math classes which embrace it
17:26:06 Porygon2 my mom had a math class that only involved 0, infinity, and sometimes 1, and once 2
17:26:18 @Serpent_King Yes division by 0 is a tricky one
17:26:52 @Serpent_King radical -1 is much easier
17:30:39 Porygon2 what is truth with regard to mathematics? everything except infinity?
17:32:34 Porygon2 0/0 being everything is a lie but seems to be true, which makes everything lies
17:32:34 @Serpent_King Who knows
17:33:12 Porygon2 but maybe we have it the wrong way around and the system of math we know is false, and 0/0 is the only true thing which is itself falsehood
17:33:58 @Serpent_King I hope not, that's a lot of errors to correct on my last calc test
17:34:32 Porygon2 no, everything would be equally in error
17:34:40 Porygon2 like multiplying by 0
17:34:47 @Serpent_King So it would be...correct?
17:34:49 Porygon2 but if you divide by 0 you get meaningful things
17:34:54 Porygon2 yep
17:34:59 @Serpent_King If everything is wrong...that means everything is right...
17:35:01 @Serpent_King wut.
17:35:38 Porygon2 everything would be the same amount of wrong, so if you limit the context and divide by the wrongness you get a meaningful system again
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17:36:01 Porygon2 of course, that wrongness is symbolized by 0, and removing it is symbolically dividing by 0
17:36:12 StarCraft Who here watches the Super Bowl only for the commercials. :P
17:36:26 StarCraft *?
17:36:34 @Serpent_King Hush now, we're talking math
17:36:41 Porygon2 so you divide by 0/0 to regain a meaningful mathematical system I guess
17:37:12 @Serpent_King This just begs the question then
17:37:12 Porygon2 multiply by 0/0 to gain mathematical nihilism
17:37:17 @Serpent_King What is x/0=0?
17:37:31 @Serpent_King Or infinity/0?
17:37:51 Porygon2 or x*0=0 or infinity*0
17:38:24 Porygon2 I don't think that has an answer
17:38:32 @Serpent_King 0x=0 means x is infinity, we just proved that
17:38:52 Porygon2 no, x is indeterminate, since it's 0/0
17:38:54 @Serpent_King because x can be any real number
17:38:59 Porygon2 which means it can be anything
17:39:15 Porygon2 it can be anything but will be tainted with falsehood
17:39:47 @Serpent_King See division by 0 is kind of like the forbidden topic
17:39:56 @Serpent_King it's taboo
17:40:07 Porygon2 exactly, they want you to avoid it so the mathematical system keeps working
17:40:59 @Serpent_King But it's a lie!
17:41:07 @Serpent_King Or an omission I guess
17:41:19 @Serpent_King Because you're just brushing it under a rug
17:41:39 Porygon2 yep
17:41:58 Porygon2 we explore everything else and it works though
17:42:12 @Serpent_King Also, you should take a look at that link from before
17:42:21 Porygon2 fortunately 0/0 never really occurs in physics, at least as far as we can tell
17:42:23 @Serpent_King Particularly the part on fibonacci
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17:42:47 Porygon2 ah, the golden ratio is my favorite number
17:43:02 @Serpent_King I've heard that it could be a key component of string theory
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17:43:50 @Serpent_King http://www.ssbwiki.com/User:Serpent_King/Math_dump
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17:43:55 @Serpent_King In case you forgot