Thanks,
A simple way to do it with a structure, in, say, C, with arbitrary complexity would be to use a 'union'.
But while I'm approaching sets from the mindset of a programmer, my question has more to do with the set-theoretic side of things than the implementation side. For example, I...
The natural example was just an example to illustrate where I'm coming from. More specifically, I'm approaching this from a computer science standpoint. Ultimately the alphabet has to be encoded as a number from this point of view. I'm just hoping there is a set-theoretic concept which can...
I've been trying to wrap my brain around sets lately. Please bear with me, as I've been trying to teach myself.
So, from what I've read, you can construct most everything in modern mathematics from sets. You can form the natural numbers from the successor function, you can construct the...
Thanks for your reply.
I don't want to use the same algorithm for both the star and its planets. Basically, I just want to get a fairly realistic solar system *without* having to simulate the creation of one.
For example, to create a star, I'm simply using a probability vector of the...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice as to how to go about this. This seems like it might fit under more than one discussion category, but astrophysics seems like it might be the best place.
I'm a programmer, and what I am trying to do is to write some software to generate...