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posted by Rajesh Lal at
11:52 AM
Friday, May 15, 2009
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21 Comments:
FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
enough with the first post stuff, its anoying, if u want first post u should at least attempt an asnwer, ne ways my answer is space, because a whole without water is empty space, imnot sure how the star would fit in but its my answer and im sticking to it :)
Wow, someone doesn't have much of a life and sits around watching and waiting so he can get their ever important 'FIRST POST'.... lame. But I have a feeling he'll still claim first post on the next riddle.
I'm not sure what the answer is, at first I thought of an anagram with the two lines, but it doesn't match up just right.
The star "Beta Lepus" is commonly known as "Nihal" which means- camels quenching their thirst. They would be devoid of water and it is a star in the sky.
I have to admit that they are not diverse but are various. I know that this may not be the correct answer, but I enjoyed using a useless piece of information I remembered from my distant schooldays.
Is it just me, or was that a REALLY long time between questions?
And my answer is 42, which is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, so I automatically win
To the Anom above:
You're a genious.
I really mean it, no kidding.
he's not a genius because if 42 is the answer to everything then 1+1=42
but guess what, it doesn't! so you dont automatically win and the post before yours with the star "beta lepas" is a really good answer
you see, i hav a idea what the answer is when i read these question, so i read the posts and help other people, but in this case i havnt got a clue so im goin to agree with the anomynous below adam
camal!
if its not the correct answer then can the maker of this question please tell us the right one
Hey, he might be right though, 42 was the answer given by the second most advanced computer that ever was or ever will be created. Perhaps we are just not to the point where 1+1=42 makes any mathematical sense, at least not in base 10.
That might actually be a neat problem to work out, how to make 1+1=42
Even if you do make 1+1=42, then is 5+7 also equal to 42. And how about 33*57, is that also equal to 42? If so that would mean that numbers have no value and are all the same. With math, different numbers have different values and can not all be equal.
But whoever it is that keeps posting 42 as the answer, it might have been clever the first time you said that, but it isn't clever anymore.
Ok, but what are numbers and math other than just inventions of man? They hold no value other than what we give them, hell, calculus was invented to prove a point!
Yes, I know I am turning this into a philosophic discussion, but it is a valid point. All of what we think we know is nothing but arbitrary values somebody assigned to something at some point in time. The only reason we take these ideas and believe in them so blindly is that we are made to believe that they make sense. Hell, the theory of gravity did not exist before Sir Isaac Newton put it into words.
Now it officially has gotten off topic.
Yes Newton did 'discover' gravity, but did gravity not exist before him? Was the earth at the center of the universe before Copernicus came along and said otherwise? Was the earth round until some radical thinkers thought otherwise and until we went to space and actually visualized the curvature? Get the point?
Numbers are not just inventions of man. It is a representation of value, or quantity. You can't change them. Imagine I have three objects in my hand. You can't look at that and say, well three is just an invention of man so it could be two, or 37. Three is used to describe quantity. I'm not referring to mathematic principles (such as calculus, geography or algebra), I'm referring to the fact that numbers are not, and can not be, valueless.
And I don't know about you, but myself, I don't believe these blindly. I (along with the scientific community) believe these to be true because they have been proven true.
sun·dry (sun′drē)
adjective
various; miscellaneous; divers sundry items of clothing
Oh, contrare!
Numbers are valueless without a context. They can not be seperated from the counting or measuring they preform...In the context of whole numbers 3 and 0 are equivilant (0 is not just a place holder but a real "thing".)
And if you really want to get into it - technically ALL integers cancel each other out, leaving zero. So, no help there...
So, ok...If numbers are really "real things", tell me exactly how many decimal places are there between, say, the number "3" and the number "4"? Without a context numbers have NO value. If you gave the answer "1" you are puting a context to your answer - the context of natural numbers. In another context - real numbers - the answer is infinite...
Further, there is no "place" or "object" in the universe called "3", or "7" or "42". Numbers can not be seperated from the counting or measuring they preform. They are, in a sense, an effect of the action of counting or measuring. They have no value beyond the set they are nested in.
If you still think numbers are "real things"...please show me where - in the entire universe - the number "378" resides.
the word is try
hahahaha
I like sundry....
i just thought id add in to the 42 thing. It came out of a book. A rather good book actually. Its fiction and its title is The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.....every heard of it? if you havent your living under a rock, it even has a movie based after it.
Anon with the 378 comment, good job. But , at the same time, there is a probability that the number 378 actually does exist SOMEWHERE in the universe. Hell, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy even says that nothing is really impossible. I can almost guarantee that somewhere in this nearly infinite universe there is a collection of molecules that have come together to form the number 378, 42, 97,352, probably every number you could imagine except 583,741,930.
A collection of molecules forming the number 378 would only be the context of a representation of the number. You could write "Let x = 378", and wherever there is an x it represents 378. But, a representation is not the thing itself.
I am talking about a pure 378, the architype, if you will. A "non-cumulative" 378 that: is dis-associated with 1 thru 377; is not just a "picture" of the digits, and is not counting or measuring something else - apples, oranges, molecules, galaxies.
Hard to even imagine...I will bet - if you are honest with yourself - that your imagination of it is not really of "it". But rather the concepts of it. When you actualy try to see "it" in your minds eye there is an empty spot. Because numbers can not be seperated from the counting and measuring they preform. They are an effect of counting and measuring - nothing more.
Your context gives numbers their value. Therefore their value is derived from you.
i think the word is what's cause it say right in the sentence what's the word
you are all stupid. The question is "Whats the word - try". This as compared to diverse and various. To reword the question; what does try mean?
its the sun
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