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[–] mineMineMINE [S] ago 

Grabbed the link instead of the paper. first pdf on the page.

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[–] TheBuddha ago 

I'm already familiar with it, though not studied in it. I've seen a few comments but no heated debates YET. I have hopes!

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[–] mineMineMINE [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

HAHA, I know nerd battles in Math are rough, but I didn't realize that you all had the blind religious fervor that was plaguing every other field. Out of curiosity, have you heard about Norman Wildberger's idea of removing the necessity of degrees from trig. http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/papers.htm ~Page 5 is where he starts opening up with the idea. The basic concept is to use quadents and ratios of them instead of angles.

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[–] TheBuddha ago 

We have epic nerd battles. I've seen it come to blows.

Want to start one?

Tell them that they are wrong and 0.999... =/= 1.

They will go on about limits, sets, number theory, and even show you proofs. Ignore that.

Tell them to write 0.999... (the ... means repeating to infinity) on the board and you'll give them a dollar when it hits a whole number.

Best day ever, if you can get them to fight among themselves.

And yeah, I'm familiar with Dr. Wildberger's work. It's not strictly novel but I could see it irking people. One of my other favorites is that Pi is wrong! You should stop by the mathemagician sub sometime. You might get a kick out of some of the stuff that gets posted.

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[–] mineMineMINE [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I saw the pi is wrong = 4. Funny stuff.

Never thought about throwing out a dollar to get them to write like that, obviously they won't, but that's still funny. Sad day when people don't know how to accept that views are not the same. Although I have to agree with you on the 0.9... the whole argument comes down to too much meta about an operation ( / ) which never comes to an end in base 10. Really, just switch to a separate base and you can't run this argument. But, whatever. Oh god, now I'm spouting about this in my head, it's a virus (BASES, SWITCH TO BASE 9 YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT - SHUT UP BRAIN).