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Offline Rictor

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Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
The Justin Moore-Minutes Theory of General Sleepiness

s(a) = Sleepiness, actual
s(p) = Sleepiness, percieved
w = warmness of bed
t = time previously spent in bed
P = proximity in hours to work/school obligations
l = lightness of sky outside window

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s(a)s(p)
s(a)t -1
s(p)p
s(p)l -1
s(p) = [(t × w) ÷ l] ÷ p

solve for s(p)


erm, off to bed


 

Offline CP5670

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
That is pretty accurate, except for the time previously spent part. I find it much easier to wake up if I have already been sleeping for a while (four hours or so).

 

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
For the less mathematically inclined of us, you'll have to explain what ∝ means.
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Offline CP5670

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
I don't like that symbol because it means very different things in math and in physics and other sciences. In physics it's "is proportional to" and in math is generally used to mean "is the asymptotic series expansion of". :p

 

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
Yeah, i prefer using my good ol' friend K, for reasons including i find the bloody thing hard to draw.
actualy, mabye not.
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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
I don't like that symbol because it means very different things in math and in physics and other sciences. In physics it's "is proportional to" and in math is generally used to mean "is the asymptotic series expansion of". :p

That still doesn't tell me anything, uness he means the physics definition....
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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
yeah...math and exciting in the same sentence, unless theres strippers involved its not happening
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Offline CP5670

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
That still doesn't tell me anything, uness he means the physics definition....

I thought that would be obvious enough. Of course it's the physics definition. :p It's just that I personally am used to seeing that symbol used for the other one.

 
Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
I like it. :) I understood them all, but the last equation made too much sense to be satire, heh.

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
That still doesn't tell me anything, uness he means the physics definition....

I thought that would be obvious enough. Of course it's the physics definition. :p It's just that I personally am used to seeing that symbol used for the other one.
You must regularly use higher-level stuff then. :p In all my math courses, we only used that symbol for proportions.

Incidentally, CP, you haven't solved the equation for s(p) yet. :p

 

Offline FireCrack

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
Hmm.. donst smoe of those contradict others?
actualy, mabye not.
"When ink and pen in hands of men Inscribe your form, bipedal P They draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability, no eyes could ever soak in all the places you anoint, and yet to see you all at once we only need the point. Flirting with infinity, your geometric progeny that fit inside you oh so tight with triangles that feel so right."
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944 59230781640628620899862803482534211706...
"Your ever-constant homily says flaw is discipline, the patron saint of imperfection frees us from our sin. And if our transcendental lift shall find a final floor, then Man will know the death of God where wonder was before."

 

Offline Corsair

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
I assumed it meant proportional... I think that's the only way I've ever seen it used but I've only seen it in math, not physics. Probably because I've onlly been taking physics for ten weeks.

So do we assume that the proportionalities here are all related by the same constant, k?
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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
I am disappointed. I expected you to say something like "2+2 really does equal 5". :p
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Offline Rictor

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Re: Exciting new breakthrough in mathematics!
That is pretty accurate, except for the time previously spent part. I find it much easier to wake up if I have already been sleeping for a while (four hours or so).

Ah, yes, that. There have been numerous high-level discussions among my colleagues and I recently, with one proposal suggesting that, due to certain theoretical problems with meta-subjective non-integer numerology, the t variable should be replaced with c, denoting the presence of KitKat or some other form of chocolatey foodstuff. We feel that the integrity of the equation can be maintained with such a substitution, and we thank you for your interest.