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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: roo_ster on February 12, 2009, 08:06:29 AM
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MATHEMATICIANS DISCOVER LARGEST NUMBER
PALO ALTO, CA - An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value "by a totally mindblowing shitload." Project director Yujin Xiao of Stanford University said the theoretical number, dubbed a "stimulus," could lead to breakthroughs in fields as diverse as astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and Chicago asphalt contracting.
"Unlike previous large numbers like the Googleplex or the Bazillionty, the Stimulus has no static numerical definition," said Xiao. "It keeps growing and growing, compounding factorially, eating up all zeros in its path. It moves freely across Cartesian dimensions and has the power to make any other number irrational."
Jean-Luc Brossard, a researcher with the European consortium CERN, said the number is so staggeringly large that it is difficult for even mathematicians to grasp, let alone lay people.
"The number itself is incomprehensible by human minds, and can only be theoretically understood in a fractional parallel universe which we refer to as the DC dimension," said Brossard. "The best way to understand a stimulus is to imagine a dollar sign followed by a packed string of hexidecimal nanodigits, wound into a triple helix, woven into a dodecahedron, and stacked on top of one another. Now imagine you were a black hole on the far edge of the universe, trying to escape the stimulus at 30 times the speed of light. The stimulus would still catch up to you and ram your black hole with such furious, repeated force that it would cause your entire reality itself to collapse."
Xiao said the team discovered the number with the help of an international network of 24 nitrogen-cooled Cray Ultracluster supercomputers, the CERN particle accelerator, and "three pounds of Humboldt County Chronic."
"The exciting news is that with more powerful computers and drugs, we believe we are on the verge of discovering an even larger number, which we refer to as a 'stimulusconferencebill,'" said Xiao. "Speaker Pelosi has already promised us the funding."
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/02/numbers-in-the-news.html
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Oh yeah?
stimulus+1.
Or even better... stimulus*stimulus.
Ooh! (stimulus^stimulus)! (yep, that's a factorial sign)
=D
Don't let congress know it exists, or they'll spend that number instead of just stimulus.
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It's also a prime number and cannot be divided.
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Oh, yeah? Chuck Norris counted the Stimulus. Twice!
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Why doesn't Obama just have Chuck Norris threaten the economy?
"Recover, or else *cracks knuckles*."
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Why doesn't Obama just have Chuck Norris threaten the economy?
"Recover, or else *cracks knuckles*."
The cracking of Norris' knuckles would set of tectonic turbulence of such terror that California would collapse into the ocean.
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The cracking of Norris' knuckles would set of tectonic turbulence of such terror that California would collapse into the ocean.
OK, what's the downside?
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The cracking of Norris' knuckles would set of tectonic turbulence of such terror that California would collapse into the ocean.
I can live with that.
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The cracking of Norris' knuckles would set of tectonic turbulence of such terror that California would collapse into the ocean.
two birds, one stone. :lol:
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Duh, lets start with 1 plus 1 and go from there....................and, guys get paid for this? chris3
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Ohhhhhhh! Now I understand this stimulus business.
The best way to understand a stimulus is to imagine a dollar sign followed by a packed string of hexidecimal nanodigits, wound into a triple helix, woven into a dodecahedron, and stacked on top of one another.
It's all so much clearer now. =D
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(Buzz Lightyear voice) "To stimulus and beyond!"
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The cracking of Norris' knuckles would set of tectonic turbulence of such terror that California would collapse into the ocean.
And this is a problem, how?
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