09-20-2004, 10:45 PM
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| Weekly Trivia Question #3
Number three, same plan as last time.
Except I'm going to add one or two as the week goes on when I think of them.
Oh, yes. If I still owe any of you rep points, tell me. (And don't try to cheat, I can't give rep points to the same post twice anyway.  )
1. What scientist and mathematician sailed from India to England to study with Arthur Eddington, and what did he discover during the trip?
2. Name this irrational number! (Both the Greek letter and the actual name): .57721....
3. Name ALL the homophones of the word "right". (Careful, there's more than you think.  )
4. Explain the person who said, the meaning, and the history of the
phrase "Cogito, ergo, sum."
Good Luck. (Sorry they're a little late this week.)
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09-20-2004, 10:48 PM
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| #3. write wright ???
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09-20-2004, 10:53 PM
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| Hmmmm...I thought there was one more. But until I think of it, you got it. | |
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09-20-2004, 10:57 PM
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| wait rite
Extra fun
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09-20-2004, 11:03 PM
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| THERE you go. That's it. And I told you in your rep point for WTQ#1 that you had gotten one earleir, never mind about that.
And you have an IOU that'll last awhile, I just gave you a rep point 30 seconds ago. | |
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09-20-2004, 11:05 PM
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| #1 Rumanajan (sp?)
#2 Phi, ie. Golden Ratio
#4 Rene Descartes said "Cogito ergo sum" if that's what you mean. It means "I think therefore I am" and is the only method of proving a very difficult thing, this being your existance. It is also a basic refutation of solopsistic thought. | |
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09-20-2004, 11:06 PM
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| You got four.
But not the other ones.
Phi is 1.6. | |
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09-20-2004, 11:09 PM
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| Oop. sorry. Gamma, and Euler's constant | |
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09-20-2004, 11:09 PM
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| 4. Cognito, ergo sum - I think, therefore I am. René Descartes. He thought nothing to be true unless it have grounds of truth. God, according to Descartes's philosophy, created two classes of substance that make up the whole of reality. One class was thinking substances, or minds, and the other was extended substances, or bodies.
blast, it took me too long to write this out.
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09-20-2004, 11:16 PM
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| Thank you sir.
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09-20-2004, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru Oop. sorry. Gamma, and Euler's constant | Yeah, that's it. You got two, and I can't give you another rep point, so Sarah will get the remaining one because I'm assuming she didn't cheat. | |
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09-20-2004, 11:56 PM
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| Aww! Thank you MrBriggs! *big grin* I feel loved.
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09-21-2004, 12:36 AM
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| 1- Chandrasekhar, white dwarfs? | |
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09-21-2004, 12:38 AM
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| Not quite. | |
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09-21-2004, 04:02 AM
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| Cogito. Cogito. There is no "n" in the word. | |
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09-21-2004, 06:11 AM
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| Teenagers and latin...... 
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09-21-2004, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Cogito. Cogito. There is no "n" in the word. | Oh, man. I got that wrong on the Latin quiz last year, too. "Cognitive" throws me off.  | |
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09-21-2004, 12:56 PM
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| Hate to be a fly in the mathematical ointment, but when was it proven that Euler's constant was an irrational number?
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09-21-2004, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by mollusk Hate to be a fly in the mathematical ointment, but when was it proven that Euler's constant was an irrational number? | It hasn't been, AFAIK. Though it is suspected to be transcendental (nevermind irrational!)
More info: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Euler-M...iConstant.html
Edited to add: If anybody provides a proof of the irrationality of Euler's constant, I'll give you rep points!
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09-21-2004, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by kalivor | Just wondering if something happened recently that I hadn't heard about.
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