The official name for the sound a tortoise makes is called a "grunt". And to add to a much earlier post about turtles, I don't think tortoises grunt out their butts.
The San Andreas fault is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the City by the Bay in about 15 million years.
waxwings- dont u think it would be possible to fold a sheet of paper more than ten times if it were thousands of feet long but extremely thin.
I think it depends on the dimensions of the piece paper(length and thickness)
sheri- you're using the notion of "perfect paper" which, yes in essence should be infinitely foldable. if it was infinitely thin and long a single fold in half would essentially not change neither length nor thickness. so it's infinitely repeatable.
the challenge is to do something that's actually replicable in the real world (application needs to be possible over pure theory). you can then maximize the surface area of an object w/ minimal volume taken. (solar panels on a satellite perhaps?)
challenge: come up with a 3d polyhedron that is not tetrahedralizable (simplest 3d shape).
you can tetrahedralize a cube for instance by drawing a diagonal from one vertex to the opposite vertex. therein essentially "splitting" the cube into two tetrahedrons.
essentially this is the 3d version of breaking down 2d polygons into triangles. all polygons can be triangulated to be broken apart but certain polyhedrons cannot be tetrahedralized. (that is to say no diagonal can be drawn from one vertex to another that either a) already exists or b) is entirely contained within the original polyhedron itself)
sheri, the high schooler's proof seems a bit more elegant. but let's say that you do have the perfect paper, i'd say that you are still wrong. at a point your going to hit plank's constant; although, you'll have split some atoms by then so you may not be around for the experience.
sheri noted infinitely thin paper. so it really doesn't apply to atoms as your paper wouldn't consist of such "real" things. however. it would also work if your paper were infinitely long in the direction you were folding (which relatavistically makes your paper infinitely thin...) but such things aside.... "perfect paper"'s "thickness" is really
lim x->inf (1/x)
which = 0.
which means it's width folded once would be
lim x->inf 2*(1/x)
which =0
so you would be able to fold this "perfect paper" infinitely.
and not only was i a member of the HS math club, i was the president.
Did You Know
and yes
Kiefer Sutherland's favorite word is from Latin------ Gravitas.
Wal-mart is the nation's leading retailer of gold.
Stores comprise of over 563 million square feet of space (not including parking).
Hilary Clinton once served on the board of directors.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
Kiefer Sutherland tried to pick up a deaf girl unsuccessfully at the 4100 bar at last call...
The official name for the sound a tortoise makes is called a "grunt". And to add to a much earlier post about turtles, I don't think tortoises grunt out their butts.
The San Andreas fault is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the City by the Bay in about 15 million years.
Where's San Francisco?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. A little LA arrogance.
garpike-
it's a quaint little city up north that's sorta like santa monica, silverlake and west hollywood combined and colder
did i say city? i meant town.
brrrrr....
Ha ha ha ha!
Ew. Leading server of colon cancer!
One more
Pearls melt in vinegar,I bet you guys didnt know that :P
1X1=1
11X11=121
111X111=12321
1111X1111=1234321
n X n = 1...n...1 if n has less than 10 digits
talking bout kiefer sutherland, he hit on my gf once at that karaoke bar on virgil (smog cutters), and asked her to marry him....what a freak!
For 10 or to 19 digits the result is:
1234567901...(n-9)...1097654321
The question for everyone is how many digits before it counts up in only odd numbers?
Ooops. I mean "For 10 to 18 digits".
And odd numbers would never happen. Only symmetrical sets of:
123456790
I am a nerd.
Maggots, Michael.
I HAAAAAAAAATE MATH
HAAAAAAAAATE X HAAAAAAAAATE = HABCDEFGHIHGFEDCBATE
DOOOORK :p
Yeah?
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
LOLLOL
Where's WonderK to tell me I am bored.
Venus is a lot like Australian toilet bowls.
GARPIKE- HOW DID YOU PUT UR MYSPACE WEB ON THERE
Put the myspace URL in the URL section of your profile.
IS NOT WORKING
There are still people starting to believe there is a God or some other form of higher being.
Scary ain't it....
No http://
DIDNT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Scheisse! Ok. What is your MySpace?
It just worked for me.
CUZ YOU ARE A NERD
are you two flirting?
waxwings- dont u think it would be possible to fold a sheet of paper more than ten times if it were thousands of feet long but extremely thin.
I think it depends on the dimensions of the piece paper(length and thickness)
12 is the limit i think
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1523497.htm
started with 1.2ks of paper.
after 11 folds, it was 80cm long 40cm high. so she got to 12, but after that its thicker than long.
and yes, i also am a nerd
I disagree, if u have a piece of paper that is infinitely long and infinitely thin u should be able to fold it an infinite amount of time
sheri- you're using the notion of "perfect paper" which, yes in essence should be infinitely foldable. if it was infinitely thin and long a single fold in half would essentially not change neither length nor thickness. so it's infinitely repeatable.
the challenge is to do something that's actually replicable in the real world (application needs to be possible over pure theory). you can then maximize the surface area of an object w/ minimal volume taken. (solar panels on a satellite perhaps?)
challenge: come up with a 3d polyhedron that is not tetrahedralizable (simplest 3d shape).
you can tetrahedralize a cube for instance by drawing a diagonal from one vertex to the opposite vertex. therein essentially "splitting" the cube into two tetrahedrons.
essentially this is the 3d version of breaking down 2d polygons into triangles. all polygons can be triangulated to be broken apart but certain polyhedrons cannot be tetrahedralized. (that is to say no diagonal can be drawn from one vertex to another that either a) already exists or b) is entirely contained within the original polyhedron itself)
This is starting to feel like math club in school.
Is mathematics slowly taking over the architecture world?
sheri, the high schooler's proof seems a bit more elegant. but let's say that you do have the perfect paper, i'd say that you are still wrong. at a point your going to hit plank's constant; although, you'll have split some atoms by then so you may not be around for the experience.
wax- a little more elegance, a little less rigor.
sheri noted infinitely thin paper. so it really doesn't apply to atoms as your paper wouldn't consist of such "real" things. however. it would also work if your paper were infinitely long in the direction you were folding (which relatavistically makes your paper infinitely thin...) but such things aside.... "perfect paper"'s "thickness" is really
lim x->inf (1/x)
which = 0.
which means it's width folded once would be
lim x->inf 2*(1/x)
which =0
so you would be able to fold this "perfect paper" infinitely.
and not only was i a member of the HS math club, i was the president.
wax- You just got punked
sheri, i believe the proper term is "punk'd"
thanks ants, i'll call euclid and let him know that we are now calling planes "perfect paper"
you're still wrong sheri
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