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#1701 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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In case you need to justify your aliens having metal exoskeletons (e.g. Turians), here's a precedent from our own planet.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Earth, mostly
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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But I remember when I first heard of this snail. Life uses whatever is available even if it's only available in that one tiny area. Always amazes me. (Honestly, if you want super strong exoskeletons, why not make layered organic diamond? Far less energy to extract than splitting iron from rock.)
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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It happened more than once with plants meaning that alien life could have who knows how many examples?
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#1705 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
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Ancient Babylonian tablet demonstrates the invention of trigonometry 1000 years earlier than ever before thought. Base 60 Babylonian mathematics reveals incredible secrets to modern mathematicians!
Of course, base 60 and the use of ratios aren't exactly secrets.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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"The tablet not only contains the world's oldest trigonometric table; it is also the only completely accurate trigonometric table, because of the very different Babylonian approach to arithmetic and geometry.” In a video promoting the discovery, Mansfield said the 60-base system used by Babylonians could potentially influence the way we use mathematics today, as it can facilitate more precise division. ... is a bit confounding. There must be something lost in translation between mathematicianese and journalese.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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#1708 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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How is that a revelation? And why not go to base-120 or base-600?
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#1709 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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It strikes me as a serious case of breakthroughism, where every science story has to be promoted by the popular press as the latest potential revolution in everything. If I were to speculate on little data, I would guess that the reporter seized on a casual comment about the advantages of base 60 over base 10.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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If this interpretation is correct, then P322 replaces Hipparchus' ‘table of chords’ as the world's oldest trigonometric table — but it is additionally unique because of its exact nature, which would make it the world's only completely accurate trigonometric table. These insights expose an entirely new level of sophistication for OB mathematics. From- the original paper (emphasis as per orginal) Perhaps he's channeling History B. I haven't finished looking through it, but it'd be an idea to see any criticism of the paper.
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