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Offline Corsair

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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #20 on: November 14, 2005, 07:14:21 pm
The perfect thing for a collection of sci-fi/math/science/odds&ends/random people!
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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #21 on: November 14, 2005, 07:51:04 pm
Quote from: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 02:45:40 pm
I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D
Engineers are superior. :p
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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #22 on: November 15, 2005, 06:37:08 am
Quote from: Bobboau on November 14, 2005, 05:42:09 pm
wow this is like a whole new ranking system,

Quote from: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 02:45:40 pm
I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D

silence ye lowly 12'th power, do not defy my 13'th might!

but realy it tells you in a glance just were you are on the posting food chain, I'm 2^13 you are 2^12 so you know right away I have made twice as many posts as you.

...:p

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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #23 on: November 15, 2005, 06:49:06 am
Quote from: Grey Wolf on November 14, 2005, 07:51:04 pm
Quote from: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 02:45:40 pm
I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D
Engineers are superior. :p

Quoted for truth ;)
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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #24 on: November 15, 2005, 09:27:03 am
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Engineers are superior.

Engineers mostly use e as well, so it's a moot point. :p

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but realy it tells you in a glance just were you are on the posting food chain, I'm 2^13 you are 2^12 so you know right away I have made twice as many posts as you.

...:p

It just happens to be that way in this case. As I said before, if I had 8191 and you had 8192, it would still show the same thing. :p
  

Offline Grey Wolf

Re: Powers of 2
Reply #25 on: November 15, 2005, 11:54:15 am
Engineers use what works :p

If it happens to be e, so be it.  And as for us using e, I haven't used it yet.  The formulas I've seen within my major had things like:

N = Ns * erfc(x / sqrt(dt))
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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #26 on: November 15, 2005, 12:03:37 pm
Which is typically e, since linear DEs frequently have solutions containing those (and constant coefficient ones always do). erfc is really just an integral of e-x² with some normalizing factor added in.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

Re: Powers of 2
Reply #27 on: November 15, 2005, 12:12:40 pm
Poor example. Didn't know about the e in there as I'm a freshmen still, so we used a graphical solution. In that case, that's the only one involving e, then.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to know what that formula is, it's for calculating diffusion in silicon.
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Re: Powers of 2
Reply #28 on: November 15, 2005, 04:24:18 pm
Quote from: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 05:08:48 pm
They don't actually resize the image at all. It just gets shown in the normal size but is cropped on the right. Here is an example: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35883.50.html

[edit] oh wait, they do resize it, just not the whole way. Something's off in any case. :)

Get a screenshot for me, please. It looks fine in Firefox...
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