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some people says that for the large values of 2
2+2=5
is it really true. I mean what is the physics behind this equation.
yours sincerely,
sancho,
 
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sancho2007 said:
some people says that for the large values of 2
2+2=5
is it really true. I mean what is the physics behind this equation.
yours sincerely,
sancho,

That is an old joke. It's not true. "Large values of 2" means nothing.
 
but 2 has large value sometimes. why not?
sometimes some experimental parameters also have large values?
 
Well, when you take the cross product of the transformation vector in R^n and assume a linear time invariant system then the approximation that 2+2=5 holds in the limit that alpha approaches infinity.
 
sancho2007 said:
but 2 has large value sometimes. why not?

Why not? Because 2 isn't a balloon in the shape of number 2 which gets large sometimes because we blow it up some more. :biggrin:

cyrusabdollahi said:
Well, when you take the cross product of the transformation vector in R^n and assume a linear time invariant system then the approximation that 2+2=5 holds in the limit that alpha approaches infinity.

You forgot about the key assumption about the invariant approximation tensor and about the uniform convergence of the gamma-series generated by non-uniform hybrid Laplace members.
 
2.3+2.3=4.6 = 5 for 1 sig dig? lol is that maybe what he is getting at? In any case I don't think there is any physics behind this equation

(This is a desperate attempt to try to understand what he meant by "large values of 2" lol)
 
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radou said:
Why not? Because 2 isn't a balloon in the shape of number 2 which gets large sometimes because we blow it up some more. :biggrin:



You forgot about the key assumption about the invariant approximation tensor and about the uniform convergence of the gamma-series generated by non-uniform hybrid Laplace members.

Ah yes, of course. Only when the skew-symmetric, non-invertible mass-matrix is in place, or det(A)=cross(J,F).
 
cyrusabdollahi said:
Well, when you take the cross product of the transformation vector in R^n and assume a linear time invariant system then the approximation that 2+2=5 holds in the limit that alpha approaches infinity.

:approve: Damn.. forgot about that. Good spot, cyrus.
 
lol

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cyrusabdollahi said:
Ah yes, of course. Only when the skew-symmetric, non-invertible mass-matrix is in place, or det(A)=cross(J,F).

Which implies an obvious isomorphism between Schmidt's dihedral group and the group od positively definite inertia matrices spanned by Van der Haagen's dual basis.

This would be the complete frame-set of the problem.

Now we're talking.
 
I think what they are getting at is that since 3 is a large value of 2 and 3 + 3 = 5 (for small values of 3), therefore 2 + 2 = 5.
 
cyrusabdollahi said:
Well, when you take the cross product of the transformation vector in R^n and assume a linear time invariant system then the approximation that 2+2=5 holds in the limit that alpha approaches infinity.

:smile: :smile:
 
jimmysnyder said:
I think what they are getting at is that since 3 is a large value of 2 and 3 + 3 = 5 (for small values of 3), therefore 2 + 2 = 5.

Exactly. A typical example of diophantine isoparallelism induced by general invariancy.