User:Edwin Shade

Goals for February 10, 2018
☑ Complete one blog post that has been in the works thus far.

A New Name For Googology (February 10, 2018)

\(\square\) Pronounce the other nine thunder-words from Finnegan's Wake.

Goals for February 9, 2018
☑ Surpass Cloudy176 in the number of manual edits I've committed thus far on this site.

☑ Pronounce first thunder-word from Finnegan's Wake

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Hey stranger, Edwin here. But what makes something strange, and do squirrels even exist ?

In 1789 a man by the name of Herbert Müllberger had done what was considered at the time to be impossible. Through a clever chemical interaction involving phosphorus oxide, a chemical naturally occurring in rubber duck factories, and a broken croquet mallet, he managed to create an energy drink which he called "6 up". Of course, major minds of the day caught on to his recipe and created their own energy drinks in an attempt to 1-up him; leading to the modern day drink called "7-up". Isaac Newton was known to imbibe 5 cups of this drink before delivering his lectures, and it is rumored that the majority of his work in alchemy was in pursuit of the perfect energy drink.

That's nice and all, but what does it have to do with strangeness ? Well, it's rather simple.

Energy drinks contain sugar, and sugar makes people hyper.

A hyper cube is fourth-dimensional.

The fourth dimension is outside of our common experience, and the latin ancestor for the word "strange" means "out of" or "distant", therefore, energy drinks are strange. Note too that there is a strange quark in fundamental particle physics, a clear indication that at it's most fundamental level the universe is composed of tiny energy drink bottles which make up all matter - you, me, cats, dogs, chicken Parmesan - you name it. But if that is so, it raises a question: "How much energy drink is in those bottles ?"

What is the solution ? U.L.A.W.W.T.Y.B.S. That's right - U.L.A.W.W.T.Y.B.S., or "Unnecessarily Long Acronyms Which Will Take You By Surprise". That phrase was engraved on a mug found in a North Carolina bar, in which a brawl erupted between two philosophically minded patrons, one believing the glass was half full, the other believing the glass half empty, and neither willing to consent, a fight broke out.

Speaking of breaking out, a taxidermy van was driving by at that exact moment, with a shipment of stuffed squirrels. After hitting a large pot hole however the squirrels were launched through the window of that North Carolina bar, one of which landed in the glass the two patrons had been arguing about. After both saw the glass now fully empty they shook hands and became life long friends after that.

Sentimentality aside, that squirrel was unusual in another respect - it wasn't really a squirrel. In 2007 a young girl discovered a metal contraption in the shape of a squirrel in a nearby field, and after showing it to her parents they notified the authorities. After various governmental agencies were brought in it was concluded that this was a very sophisticated robot contrived to act like a squirrel, but yet wasn't.

In June 2008 more reports began coming in every minute of robotic squirrels being found in forests around the world. It has been hypothesized that by now all organic squirrels have been secretly replaced with robotic squirrels. So the next time you take a walk through the woods, contemplate how squirrels are actually hyper-sophiscated robots composed of billions and billions of tiny spinning energy drinks all thanks to a man by the name of Herbert Müllberger.

And as always, thanks for listening.

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Quick-Links
These are links I frequent often and thus it would be more efficient if they were contained all in one place.

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An Algorithmic Analysis Of The 2x2x3 3x3x3 4x4x4 5x5x5 7x7x7 Megaminx

Aqua Functions

Bach's C Major Prelude

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Blog Posts
Just Practice, That's All by Edwin Shade (August 25, 2017)

Blog Posts Read Out-Loud by Edwin Shade (November 29, 2017)

Just Practicing, That's All II by Edwin Shade {January 14, 2018)

Miscellaneous
Easy Gif Editor

Online Web Camera

LunaPic Picture Editor

Vocaroo Online Recorder

Interesting Mathematical Facts

 * The probability that a tree selected from an infinite forest of trees will be visible from your perspective is \(\frac{6}{\pi^2}\).undefined
 * The 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of \(\pi\) after the decimal in binary is 0.undefined
 * A sphere can be continuously turned inside out, under the condition it's surface is allowed to pass through itself.undefined

How I Got Into Googology
It began about four years ago while I was playing the game Cookie Clicker, and upon the Cookie Clicker wiki I found the names of numbers such as undecillion and ''trevigintillion. this made me curious about the names of numbers past a quadrillion, and so I found myself on this Wiki, where I learned about a googolduplex, googoltriplex, and a googolquadplex. ''At that time, I don't believe I understood any mathematical operations beyond exponentiation so I would often just click on numbers because they had cool sounding names. I would have fun doing this, and pursued this for a few months, until I presumably lost interest.

A few months ago though I decided to revisit this old pastime of mine, due to some confusion in trying to relate a problem to someone I knew. The problem was as follows:

Given that \(f(x)=x^{x^{x^{.^{.^.}}}}\), what is the highest positive value x can be such that \(f(x)\) is finite, or does not diverge ?

The confusion in trying to relate this problem to another person was that I knew of no way to mathematically represent an infinitely high power tower of x's. So I invented a symbol for it, \(\Delta_4\), which represented the 4th "tier of operations", where the first tier was addition, the second multiplication, and the third exponentiation.

\(a\Delta_{4} b\) means "a tetrated to the b-th".

I had a nagging thought though- hadn't this already been done ? I remembered the time I had spent on the Googology Wiki and recalled that there was operation identical to this. So I searched for it, and found tetration. This was all it took for my enthusiasm to double as I learned with renewed fervor the functions and numbers I could not understand when I was younger.

So now I'm here, in the present, with knowledge of the fast-growing hierarchy, and Veblen functions. It has been quite fun actually, because Googology combines the rigour of mathematics with a certain feeling of exploration, like going into a mine-shaft and not knowing what you'll face. (I use this analogy both in reference to a real-life scenario and in reference to a game I've only been able to play a few times, but nonetheless really like, and that's Minecraft.)

There's still plenty for me to learn though, like BEAF and the many array notations people have developed over the years.

Below is some miscellaneous material that relates to numbers or Googology in one way or another.

Googological Memes
The following are some memes I've seen or created that I find funny. All credit for the first 1 belongs to Kochab1.

About Myself
As this is the internet I won't divulge too much, but it may safely be assumed I'm a human. Or I could just be a sufficiently advanced automaton that passes the Turing testundefined. Or I could be a hyper-intelligent dog owning an underground crime ring that makes a profit off of selling missing pairs of socks to sock dealers around the world.undefined Or maybe I'm not actually here at all and you are just imagining you read this, or maybe...

In any case, I like mathematics and that's why I'm on this site, I have a site here which you can visit, (though it is very much in the making).

For Reference
For convenience of reference, I have compiled a list of all the blog posts on this Wiki linked in chronological order. You can find the in-progress list here.

Here are some additional links, which serve as sources for the mathematical facts and "About Myself" portions of this page.

My Favorite Songs
Among The Living= The best way to make a song sound more monstrous is to use tritones and chromatics.

 Dragostei din tei= This is probably my favorite song, and I can never tire listening to it, (I've even made a playlist of over a dozen remixes of this song, and yet after hearing the entire playlist I still wouldn't mind hearing it again).

 Master of Puppets= The first Metallica song I've ever heard was Enter Sandman, but I like this one better alongside Creeping Death and Trapped Under Ice.

 Money for Nothing= There are many 80s songs I like, but I like this one especially - recently I got an entire album by Dire Straights and I liked what I heard.

 Это Рок= '''I was attracted by the cover art on the band's album and the fact they were Russian and decided to listen to them. I believe I might listen to more foreign music after this.'''



Edit Progress
For a user who has made a sufficiently large number of edits, there is usually a progress chart on their user page, thus I've decided to do the same. I am counting in increments of 5,000.

Joined on August 18, 2017

5,000 edits reached on December 26, 2017

10,000 edits reached on January 23, 2017

15,000 edits reached on February 9, 2017

Additionally, here is a table comparing the edit count of the top-10 editors on this Wiki.

An Error ?
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Also...
It struck me as a surprise one could actually use MathJax with the category labeling system.