Math Is Fun Forum

logical1

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Registered: 2012-11-02

Posts: 3

Hi All!

Love logic and puzzles (obviously ), this looks to be a fun place to exercise the brain!

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: Hi All!

Hi logical1;

Welcome to the forum!

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

noelevans

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Registered: 2012-07-20

Posts: 236

Re: Hi All!

Hi! Welcome aboard!

Have you run across G. Spencer Brown's "Laws of Form" and his notation for two-valued logic?
It introduces a notation that uses a single symbol (in addition to the p,q,r,... for statements) to
represent and, or, implies, if and only if, not, and the truth value "T".  The system of notation is
phenomenal and makes calculations of truth values extremely easy.  Paying attention only to the
notational system and its rules of operation is really neat.  But trying to understand his more or
less (according to me) "philosophical" language of "distinctions, crossings" etc is another matter.
I gave up on it and just took the notational system and ran with it.  Works really great.  Oh, and
the one symbol also does grouping.

I think there are sites where you can download it for free.  Enjoy! 

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Writing "pretty" math (two dimensional) is easier to read and grasp than LaTex (one dimensional).
LaTex is like painting on many strips of paper and then stacking them to see what picture they make.

anonimnystefy

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From: Harlan's World

Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 16,049

Re: Hi All!

Hi logical1

Welcome to the forum!

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“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

ShivamS

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Registered: 2011-02-07

Posts: 3,648

Re: Hi All!

Hi.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,415

Re: Hi All!

Hi logical1,

Welcome to the forum!

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,621

Re: Hi All!

hi logical1

Welcome to the forum!

This is a great place to exercise the brain.  I'm still 'overheating' on phrontister's puzzles.

Bob

Next job.  Look at the Sam Loyd puzzle you mention.

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Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything;  you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you!  …………….Bob

Calligar

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Registered: 2011-09-24

Posts: 272

Re: Hi All!

Hi logical1!

Welcome to the forum!

So far I like the games here, although, admittedly, I haven't done many.  Hope you enjoy the games in that case!

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There are always other variables.  -[unknown]
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.  -Aristotle
Everything makes sense, one only needs to figure out how.  -[unknown]

Mathegocart

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Registered: 2012-04-29

Posts: 2,226

Re: Hi All!

hi!

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The integral of hope is reality.
May bobbym have a wonderful time in the pearly gates of heaven.
He will be sorely missed.