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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47985 on: April 26, 2014, 04:41:14 am »

Why isn't there a religion based around ϕ yet?

Because that'd be like basing a religion around the square root of two. Sure, it's got some interesting properties (it's the intersection point of a sine and cosine! Its inverse plus its imaginary inverse has an absolute value of 1!), but these values are mostly the same thing when you think about it and it's not much of an interesting number otherwise.
But the Golden Ratio is literally everywhere.
wot u gabberin about m9? There's plenty of places where it isn't.
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« Reply #47986 on: April 26, 2014, 04:48:51 am »

Why isn't there a religion based around ϕ yet?

Because that'd be like basing a religion around the square root of two. Sure, it's got some interesting properties (it's the intersection point of a sine and cosine! Its inverse plus its imaginary inverse has an absolute value of 1!), but these values are mostly the same thing when you think about it and it's not much of an interesting number otherwise.
But the Golden Ratio is literally everywhere.
wot u gabberin about m9? There's plenty of places where it isn't.
Anything is ϕ if you try hard enough.
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« Reply #47987 on: April 26, 2014, 05:06:43 am »

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« Reply #47988 on: April 26, 2014, 05:54:29 am »

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« Reply #47989 on: April 26, 2014, 06:36:41 am »

Art.
Do you not see the subtle commentary?
I think he does and that's the reason why he posted in here. But seriously, this is disgusting. How is she not arrested for public indecency?
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« Reply #47990 on: April 26, 2014, 07:02:40 am »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47991 on: April 26, 2014, 07:44:24 am »

Why isn't there a religion based around ϕ yet?
I had a - completely unrelated - conversation involving ϕ today.
It begins.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47992 on: April 26, 2014, 07:57:10 am »

Why isn't there a religion based around ϕ yet?

Because that'd be like basing a religion around the square root of two. Sure, it's got some interesting properties (it's the intersection point of a sine and cosine! Its inverse plus its imaginary inverse has an absolute value of 1!), but these values are mostly the same thing when you think about it and it's not much of an interesting number otherwise.
But the Golden Ratio is literally everywhere.
wot u gabberin about m9? There's plenty of places where it isn't.
The e and pi, on the other hand...
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« Reply #47993 on: April 26, 2014, 08:03:51 am »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47994 on: April 26, 2014, 10:04:28 am »

Why isn't there a religion based around ϕ yet?

Because that'd be like basing a religion around the square root of two. Sure, it's got some interesting properties (it's the intersection point of a sine and cosine! Its inverse plus its imaginary inverse has an absolute value of 1!), but these values are mostly the same thing when you think about it and it's not much of an interesting number otherwise.
But the Golden Ratio is literally everywhere.
wot u gabberin about m9? There's plenty of places where it isn't.
The e and pi, on the other hand...
The Greeks actually sacrificed a bunch of cattle after discovering that pi is transcendental.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47995 on: April 26, 2014, 10:10:43 am »

This one was always weird.

EDIT: Actually, that one makes sense, since that's just circumference. Never mind.
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« Reply #47996 on: April 26, 2014, 10:13:20 am »

I don't keep up on politics much, but someone linked me to a picture of this graph:
If you're like me it might take you a minute to notice what's wrong with the graph.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2014, 10:15:44 am by Pnx »
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« Reply #47997 on: April 26, 2014, 10:21:09 am »

I don't keep up on politics much, but someone linked me to a picture of this graph:
If you're like me it might take you a minute to notice what's wrong with the graph.
I see it. Sneaky sunnsobeeches.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47998 on: April 26, 2014, 10:30:36 am »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
Sweetie, does your friend know that you are not old enough to do that?
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« Reply #47999 on: April 26, 2014, 10:43:02 am »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
Sweetie, does your friend know that you are not old enough to do that?
I don't think Objective or his friend or anyone else really cares.
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.
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