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  • #61
    rofl...
    Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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    • #62
      Easy! We know the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture holds, and your theorem is a direct result.

      I leave the details as an excercise to the reader.
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      • #63
        KH: you mean xn + 1 = xn - f(xn)/f'(xn) ?

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Chowlett
          Easy! We know the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture holds, and your theorem is a direct result.

          I leave the details as an excercise to the reader.

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          • #65
            Speaking of Erith:

            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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            • #66
              take a guess (X0). Make a better guess (X1) based on how close X0 got you and the slope at X0. Rinse, repeat as often as required.
              To get an accurate answer, that sounds at least as computationally intensive as dealing with a large polynomial...

              i do have a proof, but I can't be arsed to write it down here
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              • #67
                To get an accurate answer, that sounds at least as computationally intensive as dealing with a large polynomial


                Nope. I can do it to 10 steps in 3 minutes with a pocket calculator and a pencil.
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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Juggernaut
                  KH: you mean xn + 1 = xn - f(xn)/f'(xn) ?
                  Yup.
                  12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                  Stadtluft Macht Frei
                  Killing it is the new killing it
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                  • #69
                    What did Shakespear mean by 'doubt'?

                    As in 'doubt it not', 'doubt truth to be a liar', etc.

                    What was the system of accounting used in Elizabethan times, before double-entry?

                    Describe it.
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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Ramo
                      To get an accurate answer, that sounds at least as computationally intensive as dealing with a large polynomial...
                      It converges bloody quickly, as long as your derivatives aren't too small. If you find yourself at infinity, then try again with a bracketing method.
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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by KrazyHorse


                        Fall upwards.
                        Why upwards ? If it's liberated of gravity, won't it just start to decelerate ? Lose momentum ?
                        What?

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Richelieu
                          Why upwards ? If it's liberated of gravity, won't it just start to decelerate ? Lose momentum ?
                          Depends how strong the antigravity was. And in which direction it operated
                          Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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                          • #73
                            Ok, here's one. What's a nole?
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                            • #74
                              Is your Nole grassy?
                              Yes.

                              No!
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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

                                Depends how strong the antigravity was. And in which direction it operated
                                OK. It is full anti-gravity. And it doesn't operate in any direction. It is a applied to an object, like a force field. the object is no longer submitted to the force of gravity.
                                What?

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