Yeah so I took a well-deserved break from baby-math, because a) I’m a n00b anyway, and b) I wasn’t in the mood for math. It’s not too interesting. So the real symmetry is not between positive and negative ‘numbers’ (whatever they are), but between 0-1 and 1-infinity, and negative numbers…
Yeah so there obviously are numberlines in different bases. Let’s check base 10 first: 0-10-100-1000-10000 etc. 1-9, 10-90, 100-900, 1000-9000 etc. So we can conjecture (obviously it’s true, but hey) that between the ‘first’ and the ‘next’ power of N (10 here) there are N-1 spots that have integers (9…
(Prepare yourself for some really bad math.) I think this is the very final math problem I ever do, because I find it outrageously boring. But I’ll write it down, just for the sake of whatnot. “Infinity” itself seems, as far as I understand, to be poorly understood; and at…
Zoals sommigen waarschijnlijk weten was ik ooit een schaker. Iets meer dan twintig jaar geleden heb ik m’n schaakbord echter aan de wilgen gehangen. Tegenwoordig ben ik oud en traag en speel ik heel af en toe een beetje online. Mijn FIDE rating van 2129 is waarschijnlijk niet eens zo…
