Recent content by Eric V

Literally? By jumping through a recursive stack of values. Each are probably handled as an object with a large memory space, but the object implementation would depend on the program being used. Could also be a struct.

I'm thinking along the lines of the total amount discounted in dollars. Even if you paid a $1 monthly fee, over an infinite number of months the amount you pay tends to infinity, whereas with the forever package it stays constant. So you've been discounted an infinite amount.

I suppose I should clarify further that in order to write a USEFUL language, it is my opinion that you should know assembly. You could learn how to use a code converter, but unless you're familiar with the maximum complexity of your statements, and how those statements would be expressed in an...

We were simplifying the situation as we have done here.

Thank you so much for your help on this. The process you did of going through all of the equations was above and beyond what I expected.

It would have to be the same. Neither myself nor my friend were right. I was imagining the ball at the end of the pivot as having to accelerate faster around the curve in order to travel the same distance downward, and my friend felt that the pivot would slow the path of the ball and result in...

Assuming the Universality of Computation, then the brain is computable. If it is computable, it is extendable. This would indicate that it is not physically impossible to interface with, offload, and increase computation which currently happens in the brain. The question then is not whether it...

Just for fun recommendation- I noticed that your Gold Membership Forever package advertises "a LARGE discount and is forever!" Given that the topic being addressed is an infinite membership, and that the alternative costs for infinite membership tend towards infinity whereas the forever...

Well, currently I'm studying discrete mathematics in preparation for more in depth study into computational theory. Complexity theory has always been very interesting to me, and I'm grinding through predicate calculus and set theory in order to be prepped for that course of study. I will...

I really can't. Like I was saying, I'm a computer science major. I haven't done any physics since '09. My thoughts are: Perhaps the speed would be exactly the same? Perhaps they would have the same vector in the y axis, but the ball at the end of a pendulum would have a vector pulling it...

Hi! I'm in the final semester of my junior year studying computer science, so I can't offer a professional opinion but I'd like to give you a little insight from an educational perspective. First of all, the C language is perfectly workable for learning and developing basic desktop...

I was just reading the rules at the top of this forum- please give me a heads up if this question is too homework like. I'd like to have the opportunity to copy it and move it to the homework section.

Hi guys! I was an active member of this forum back in the 2005-2009 era, but I've long forgotten my password and user name. I probably won't be on very much. I don't do a lot of physics anymore and have forgot most everything not conceptual. I was a physics minor and mathematics major when I...

Hi guys, I'm having a debate with a mechanical engineer friend of mine, and I was wondering if you could help me solve it. I'm not much of a physicist, but honestly I think he might have this one wrong, I just can't remember my old physics classes well enough to calculate and be sure. The...