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    Other First post since 2009. I've learned a lot. Where to go from here?

    So I hope I'm posting in the right place. This is a request for advice on my STEM education but I have no immediate intention of attending university again (maybe one day). Rather, I'm requesting guidance on the future direction of my independently driven academics (i.e. "self-study"). I...
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    Hangman Program Why Doesn't It Work?

    eh, screw it. i think this is what you want: while(t<8){ // t = no.of wrong tries cout<<"pls enter a letter : " cin>>c; cout<<"\n"; int letterFound = 0; // User guesses a letter for (int i=0; i<size; i++)...
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    Hangman Program Why Doesn't It Work?

    hey man. sorry for the long overdue reply, I hope this is still relevant. I don't think this problem is due to a lack of memory. There's not really anything about this program that would cause any significant use of memory. I'm not sure if you're actually running into an infinite loop. It...
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    Hangman Program Why Doesn't It Work?

    also, I noticed why it (seemingly) never ends. you only increment t when you've guessed a letter in the word and haven't won yet. this is obviously not what you want. (...dude, this style is terrible. I'd highly recommend indenting correctly, it helps to catch a lot of dumb mistakes. I'm fixing...
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    Hangman Program Why Doesn't It Work?

    hey hermy. nice to see someone else who codes for the hell of it. I just thought I'd drop my two cents that your line command loop for making the dashes looks way too complicated. maybe something more like: for (int i=0; i<size; i++) line(40*i + 55, 400, 40*i + 75, 400); //this...
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    How does Many Worlds theory explain Schroedinger's cat

    I love how easily the line between philosophy and physics is blurred. Seems something worth doing (I don't know if I'll ever forgive Carlin for mocking our space program. haha).
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    How does Many Worlds theory explain Schroedinger's cat

    I know they go over the uncertainty principle and such but I don't know if they address the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. I'm a second year CSC major at CalPoly (SLO) and know a few physics majors who have taken a course called "Modern Physics", which is basically quantum...
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    How does Many Worlds theory explain Schroedinger's cat

    The way I understand it, the many worlds theory doesn't say that the dead/living cat "comes into existence" at all, but rather that the universe splits at every instant in which the cat might die. It just so happens that every second, there's a (let's say) 50/50 chance of the cat dying. The cat...
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    Why light can achieve such fast speed?

    good point. guess I'm getting a little overly zealous here. Thanks for the responses and time.
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    Why light can achieve such fast speed?

    Well... then let's speak speculatively. Let's say you could be a photon. I am officially declaring that an axiom of my SR. haha. Would it follow? I seem to always get caught up on some small detail in the scenario. I realize that this new axiom would probably create a contradiction somewhere...
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    Why light can achieve such fast speed?

    Actually, I have a related question that I feel belongs here. Let's just say that you're a photon. Would you always and forever see every place that you've ever been or ever will? You would live out your life in an instant.
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    Understanding the Lorentz Factor: A Simple Explanation on Simple.wikipedia.org

    I only have a second. But I've decided to delete the part of the article concerning the car. Either I didn't remember the story correctly or the story was wrong (or both). But either way, it's gone.
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    Do mirrors show simultaneous events in the mirror frame?

    That's exactly what I meant. I was thinking in terms of simultaneity. I made the exact mistake that you proposed. So, without doing calculations, I'll presume that the numbers work out to prevent causality (which would be broken if c was infinite... but I'm sure there's many examples proving...
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    Understanding the Lorentz Factor: A Simple Explanation on Simple.wikipedia.org

    wow. I am far less qualified to write that page that I originally believed. Oh, and so far as the mess up on the twin paradox... no clue how that one slipped past me. haha. that is incredibly incorrect. I'll fix that as soon as I can but... wow, that is wrong. edit: fixed. I don't understand...
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