Can anyone #translate this for me?

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Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:13 am

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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:22 am

Looks like Greek for "and"
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Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:36 am

Then I've come back to Lambda. Damn it.

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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:41 am

What? I thought this was seminary, not the pub
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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:56 am

Yes, Kappa+Alpha+Iota = 11 in English.

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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:01 am

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the use of Greek letters as numerals
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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:13 am

Oh, right. Kappa is twenty, alpha is one, and iota is 7.

[20,1,7]

This probably makes no sense to anyone else.. but I'm still playing with the Schrodinger's box:

Before the 'box' is opened the cat is all of the following: dead,alive, dead and alive, neither dead nor alive, all the previous, all the following, none of the previous...
That is, a truly quantum interpretation of Schrodinger's cat [sorry about the umlaut] is an infinite sequence. If you decided to adopt his many-worlds interpretation. I understand Copenhagen has one as well. It's a 'Schrondinger sequence' applied to a binary question.

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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:17 am

actually, iota is 10... are you posting drunk or otherwise UI?

and I certainly don't understand the rules of your game
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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:25 am

Oh, right, I forgot to explain how I got the lamba. The Greek alphabet has 25 letters and the English alphabet has 26. A difference of 1. So I picked 'Y' as the extraneous English letter, google translated it and got kappa alpha iota [3 - the simple interpretation of Shrodinger's famous cat in a box]. Assigning ordinal values to kappa alpha iota by their place in the Greek alphabet I got kappa[10], alpha[1], iota[9], which is 20[kappa is actually 20 in Greek numerals] ->carry the one ->Lambda[11 - ordinal value in Greek alphabet]

11 in binary is 3 in base 10 and 'Schrondingers sequence'!

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:26 am

25 ? I know only 24
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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:28 am

Svartalf wrote:actually, iota is 10... are you posting drunk or otherwise UI?

and I certainly don't understand the rules of your game
Not in ancient Ionia. :P

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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:29 am

and there's a digamma in the numerals between epslilon and zeta, so all letters from Etha on are one numeral order higher than their alphabetical place suggests, even though digamma has been an obsolete letter since antiquity
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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:30 am

Svartalf wrote:25 ? I know only 24
Yeah, you're right.

ETA: I could probably explain better if I was sober.

oh yeah, the sum of the 'Schrodinger sequence' is 0.5, the limit is obviously 0. In practical terms, it can be used to reduce any complex equation into well.. 0.5 in Finite Math. This may be wrong. I'll check it later. So far it's proved true. What is it good for? I don't know.

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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by JimC » Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:53 am

In maths symbols, it simply states that "K is directly proportional to L"
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Re: Can anyone #translate this for me?

Post by Jason » Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:34 am

http://www.10ticks.co.uk/tests/takeTestNumberL7.aspx
Question five is pissing me off.

96*5^(0.5)

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