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Author Topic: The 1 percent per day superpower  (Read 23824 times)

Eric Blank

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #315 on: March 03, 2015, 03:58:00 pm »

Hey, this shit is serious business. We don't allow mistakes here, no matter how innocent.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #316 on: March 03, 2015, 04:55:03 pm »

"Increase the mass of the universe by 1%"

If any unusual consequences are seen it can be assumed that the universe has finite mass, while if there is no change detected it can be assumed that the mass is infinite. At least, I think that would work?
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Helgoland

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #317 on: March 03, 2015, 06:25:14 pm »

Okay, generalized 'increase [measurable quality] by p%' procedure, only one day needed:
Denote our value by x. Define a new ppositional notation:
Choose two sufficiently large natural numbers m and n, m<n, a small real number a, and another (large) real number b.
Now take the b representation of x, and stop adding up at summands m and -m, and only start again at summands n and -n, leaving out the middle part. Now - since we want our original value x back! - 'fill in' the gap with the appropriate summands from the a representation of x.
Apply 1% power to the number of digits in front of/after the comma in our new notation. By appropriately choosing a, b, m, and n, any percentage between one and zero should be accessible in only one application of our power.
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