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    Quote Originally Posted by ptavv View Post
    I just didn't see the point in it since we're an internet forum and not a mathematical journal.
    I hadn't realized that the two were mutually exclusive, nor a dog wart waterbowl tea cozy with doily completion.

    Also: Evidently tau and phi both refer to the same golden ratio. Phi is simply more common. The more you knew. doo dee doo.
    Evidently is an anagram for devil enty. Are you Satan, Santa?
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    Acrosticly I disagree.

    In the theory of
    diametrically opposed viewpoints
    it is important that we
    somehow find a common ground between the
    at risk viewpoints of the avant garde and the
    general viewpoints of the established
    residents of the
    educated institutions of the
    elite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odin View Post
    Acrosticly I disagree.

    In the theory of
    diametrically opposed viewpoints
    it is important that we
    somehow find a common ground between the
    at risk viewpoints of the avant garde and the
    general viewpoints of the established
    residents of the
    educated institutions of the
    elite.
    Can you adjoin the roots of your equations to my algebra? Or shall we attempt to meet halfway at Zeno's Paradise?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster Highmen View Post
    Or shall we attempt to meet halfway at Zeno's Paradise?
    Tried that one time. Always made it halfway to the halfway point.

    Could never seem to get all the way commited.

    Finally I figured out that by staying in one position I would eventually just arrive where I was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster Highmen View Post
    A famous sequence is the Fibonnacci sequence.
    It looks like: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,... where the next element of the sequence is generated by adding the previous 2.

    In that notation, I'd write {f(i+1) = f(i)+f(i-1), f(0)=1, f(1)=1}.
    Note that lim(i->inf) f(i+1)/f(i) = (1+sqrt(5))/2, tao the golden proportion.

    So the sequence I'm talking about is generated by adding the previous element with one from just below or equal to halfway down the previous elements.

    is this Fibonnacci's wave theory?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Odin View Post
    Lets avoid trying to stee rhis coversation into a philosophical question.

    I kant take it
    Great nerd joke.
    Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

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