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Re: Nifty Names

We use < span > tags and CSS to make such "over-the-top" signatures. In the case of Merovingian's signature, it's one < span > tag for each letter, and those span tags specify different colours using CSS. Denelson 83 03:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Eagle River, Alaska

I don't expect you to know too much about technical details, but it should look something like South Monroe, Michigan.

The Demographics section is the one that needs cleaning up, and any other details. -x42bn6 Talk 00:44, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be willing to help you expand on Eagle River, Alaska feel free to contact me as User:DisorderlyChaos. Sorry for intruding on your page, I really don't know any other way of getting these messages through.

pi and e

I reverted your additions of Category:Irrational numbers to those articles. That because both articles are already in Category:Transcendental numbers which is a subcategory in Category:Irrational numbers. There is a policy somewhere that one should not categorize an article in both a category and a subcategory of that category. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 07:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

May be of interest...

I became interested in computers way back in 1959 when my mother worked for a textile company that paid IBM to train her to be a accounting machine wireboard programmer. Since my aunt was a first grade school teacher andan ardent Seventh Day Adventists and had taken over my religious education my first question (naturally) about computers was "What does a computer say when you ask it if God exists or not?" to which one of my teachers replied that the computer said it did not have enough information.

Consequently I spent a good portion of my life trying to figure out a way for a computer to answer that question if it ever did get enough information. I developed a multiple state version of the Harvard Chart Method of Logical Equation Reduction which I though might do the job but as it turns out the shear size of the chart it generates for only a few variables makes it clear that memory is the problem. Before getting started on a version that would run on the fly and avoid this problem I realized that time would likely also be a constraint. What to do?

It took about ten years of sitting on it before I realized that the failure of a computer to overcome the problem was actually the solution.

Remember "How are you GI Joe?" Hanoi Hannah? Well Hannah used to claim that North Vietnam would win the war because the North Vietnamese believed that logic was superior to God as the basis for any system whether social, economic, political, etc. which means that if this is true then computers should be put in charge of running the world. Although computers have become indispensable the reality is that even the Russians (much less the North Vietnamese) do not want to turn everything over to computers but rather want to remain control for themselves similar to the reason why we still have pilots flying airplanes.

Anyway after hearing this argument and knowing how limited and incapable computers (and computer networks) really are and that there is in fact an entity that by definition can handle not only an infinite number of equations having an infinite number of variables with an infinite number of states with the difined capacity of being able to reduce these equations to minimum form instantaneously, which no human or computer or computer network or country or other entity can do by definition it became clear what the problem really was. Pretty amazing to realize that such an entity would exist (even if only by definition) so I tried to figure out why.

As it turns out there is a vacancy in the universe created by the fact that we can conceive of the possibility of such an entity whether one exists or not, just like we can imagine an entity like Superman or Star Trek's Data. Its not that these entities actually exist in the real world but rather that there is a place, although imaginary, where they can exist in our minds such that they influence our behavior and by so doing tend to have a real impact on our lives and on this world. Therefore it is actually logical to think in terms of the existence of such entities as being real whether they are or not.

By the way you may also enjoy this Wikipedia article as well: Optimal Classification. ...IMHO (Talk) 05:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]