Hi Anthony,
You have made an excellent point. If one does not know the context of the data (hence why I called it orphaned data), one should be wary of particular "models" to fit to that data and the assumptions used for that model, since for example I have shown your children's feet fit a perfect cubic equation (with the assumption of x being a whole integer), based upon the o
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
I think the point is made quite clearly, that with limited data one can obtain multiple answers. It is a point that I made on previous occasions with the ellipse and curve fitting. Multiple Models can fit limtied data sets.
You can see it as entrapment if you wish. Personally I dont see it as such at all, and it would have been nice if you could have correctly solved the problem. Note thoug
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
I dont understand why you deleted your reason. I will give you mine.
The data can be generated by the equation y = (3/8)x^3 - (26/8)x^2 + (74/8)x - (6/8), where x corresponds to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc number in the sequence (i.e. x= 1, 2, 3, 4). Thus, x=1 y =6, x=2 y=8.5, x=3 y=9, x=4 y=9.75, x=5 y=13.
So please don, tell us the reasoning behind your solution.
Jonny
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
So whats your reasoning? why is it 6, 8.5, 9, 12.5, 13, 17.5 and 18?
Rebby gets 6, 8.5, 9, 12, 13, 16.5,
Lobo gets 6, 8.5, 9, 12.25, 13
and I get 6, 8.5, 9, 9.75, 13, 21, 36
Jonny
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Don,
I am in no way setting you up, but I would be interested in what your answer would be. The key here is not the specific answer, but the logical reasoning for that answer. I have given my answer, and Rebby has given there's. So why not give your answer and the reasoning behind that answer.
To illustrate the above, what is the next in this sequence? 2, 3, 5, x? Is it 7 or
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
I will go first then. I will just tell you the number, but not the reason why just yet until all numbers are in.
9.75. As I said, mine is a logical answer, but may not be the same as Anthony's number or others.
Jonny
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
This is a good illustration of the problem with orphan data. Anthony has stated that it is a sequence, not a summation or calculation. Anthony has asked to find a missing term, not find out what number will make the value correct if summed together, which is what Don has interpreted it as. In my interpration of the problem he is asking: What is the missing number x in the following sequence 6,
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Don,
Just for your information and for arguments sake. If you keep the spacing between the points the same (i.e. 28 digits), and you assume that the points lie on a curve described by an ellipse, as per your original premise, but use Andrew Connors heights (assuming that they are correct), then the best fit ellipse will have the parameters of
a = 244.9993419 (i.e. 245 fingers) (35/4 cub
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
They just dont build them like they used to, literally. Most modern technology isnt radiation hardened, meaning that cosmic rays can do untold damage, to the delicate nanoscale transistors and capacitors that make probes function. 1970's technology, though primitive to our current technology was much more robust. This is one feeling I have for why we have not gone back to the moon, that a
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Laboratory
Looks like it wasnt aliens after all. And I was so sure that German "academic" Hartwig Hausdorf was correct given his vast knowledge and technical experience in astronautics, signal processing, and computer systems. Just as well he has his travel agency to fall back upon. Does anyone know why this man was described as an academic, or did the journalists just not bother to check?
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Laboratory
Sorry for the confusion, bad syntax on my part, I was meaning the point at which a variable in a denominator approaches zero, or becomes zero. For example in the phase transitions in ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials, when the material changes from para(electric/magnetic) to ferro(electric/magnetic). The material variable (permitivity or permeability) is given by E = C/(Tc - T), where
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Anthony,
You are correct and it is an important point, but please don't tell my missus, she is a mathematician and would kill me. We once a long time ago had a rather heated discussion over me dividing both sides of an equation by x to get an answer as opposed to factorising the equation and solving. her argument was x could have been zero, my argument was that in this case x was not
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
QuoteFollowing on this theme we get as our radius, assuming 360 as a circumference in both degrees and distance, a distance of 114.59155902616464175359630962821 and divide by 2 gives us: 57.295779513082320876798154814105
Get out any calculator, the one with Windows will be fine and find the tan of 89.9999999
There is a good reason for this. The natural unit for the angular measure in circl
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JonnyMcA
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Anthony,
as much as I would like to take credit for it, I cant. This was pointed out by Houcad over on GHMB. I am only passing on the information that he supplied.
As fakes go it is pretty well done, and only when you see the computer models and then inspect the trucks, do you see that the trucks dont look quite right (they seem to be too matt in my opinion).
This is the problem wit
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JonnyMcA
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Coffee Shop
Most likely this video is a fake. Compare the two trucks in the foreground with these commercially produced computer generated models
Jonny
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Coffee Shop
Hi Don,
yes I followed you. Just one clarification. i am NOT suggesting that it is a third order polynomial. I am stating that a third order polynomial (or fourth order) can also fit the data given that we have no data in the other three quadrants to tell us that it is not a third order polynomial.
Its like this. i have 4 boxes, and in each box is a set of coloured balls, where we know
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JonnyMcA
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