Math Is Fun Forum

I suppose the question of whether a fish has a personality can only be answered once a person defines the meaning of 'personality'.

As for the creepy chicken (How it managed to function and act normally with only a brain stem confuses me), here's a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

It's quite simple, really. My brain is built as an assembly line. Thoughts which are deemed important enough to remember and build onto are placed on the massive ring-shaped conveyor belt, 'A', which is analogous to long-term memory storage. Recent thoughts which have not been placed on 'A' are placed on the ragged and 'holy' (full of holes) conveyor belt 'B'. Many of the items placed on 'B' tend to fall off the side of the belt, or get  crushed when they fall between the upper and lower belt sections, and get pulled into an axle. Finally, there is belt 'C'. Belt 'C' is for thoughts which are deemed 'unsafe' for handling by the assembly line. Belt 'C' is covered with a variety of things, such as thumbtacks and magnets. At the end of belt 'C' is a massive furnace, though most thoughts don't make it that far, as they remain stuck to the belt for another pass. When production levels begin to fall, the foreman orders other things to be made... no matter how preposterous... which explains why I start mumbling incoherently when I am very bored, very tired, or very distraught.

1. Immortality
2. Invincibility
3. Three more wishes (Infinite if possible)

I have always been fascinated by artificially generated worlds. Your example is very nice. I like it a lot (the fact that it can be viewed in real-time is a great bonus. Most of the worlds I have looked at are just rendered images)

I don't think there is a flaw. I use this to prove that .999... = 1

Apparently, my daemon is a female chimpanzee named Vyena.

Indeed. I often do hear the sounds seeming to alternate between L and R though... especially in songs. Oh well.

Romanized, it would probably be similar to 'jo-na-son'

Technically, Japanese doesn't even have an 'R' as we do in English, it is often described as a cross between an English L and an English R.

I have noticed that many pronounciations of the 'U' in Japanese are either silent, voiced quietly, or very similar to the French 'U'.

How delicious... one of my favourite subjects...

From my point of view, God is false.

Why?

1. Humans are imperfect things
2. Imperfect things cannot create perfect things
3. Religions were created by humans therefore religions are imperfect
4. Sciences were created by humans therefore sciences are imperfect
5. Reproducing religious evidence cannot be reasonably reproduced by outside testers, yet scientific evidence can
6. Human language cannot possibly describe everything, as it was created by humans.
7. Divine power cannot be measured
8. The bible is not a source of absolute truth, as it often contradicts itself, it was written over many centuries, and it was written by humans
9. Human memory is imperfect, what we think we remember can vary dramatically from what we actually perceived.

That being said, if there is a god or gods, and they are forgiving, understanding, and they created me, then they should be able to understand that I need personal evidence to believe in their existence, and will forgive my imperfection which they themselves created. If there is an afterlife, and I am sapient within it, then sign me up. Either way, I am still going to lead a fulfilled and enjoyable life as long as I can, because I don't want to try and wait for something that, by my opinion, does not likely exist. I'll take my *positive* rewards now, instead of after dying, thank you.

What a strange game... I found that blade of death easy... I look forward to finishing all of your puzzles

It is unfortunate that by their very layouts, many of these puzzles seem to give the answers to which blocks should be which colours... the challenge is finding a route to change them.

Well... I solved them all... took me 25 minutes, so that's an okay mental exercise. Nice job

EDIT: I stand corrected... some of these puzzles on hard difficulty are very convoluted...

Determinants... such interesting constructions.

A matrix's determinant is also zero if:
- Two rows have the same entries
- Two columns have the same entries

Ah yes... the water knife. They have many at one of the fry plants in a town by the city I live in.

Intriguing... I have often wondered what would happen if you froze super-carbonated water into ice cubes. I suppose the result would be similar to these pop rock things.

Question: Do these inventions have to have been successful, or can failed inventions also be included?