Talk:2861: X Value
Revision as of 22:12, 29 November 2023 by 172.71.122.209 (talk)
transcript and short explanation added someone, i guess(talk i guess|le edit list) 18:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Is there an easter egg here? Is 4.1083 a significant constant in some field? 172.71.154.91 19:00, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- Dunno...but when I Googled it, it came up with a picture of a motorcycle I used to own - same vintage, same colour, same non-original aftermarket panniers - which was a little strange. Anybody else return any results centred around long-since-departed vehicles?
- Or not? Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 19:31, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- Googling for it showed me... a picture of this very xkcd. It's recursive? Ralfoide (talk) 20:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
https://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/mathemuffel-erleichtert-wert-von-x-ein.html 172.68.110.148 20:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- This is in german, could you maybe give a translation at least? someone, i guess(talk i guess|le edit list) 20:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
The "narrowing down" of n might be a reference to a combinatorics problem Ron Graham was solving, managing to narrow down the dimensions of the hypercube with a certain property to be more than 6 and less than... Well, Graham's Number. 172.71.122.209 22:12, 29 November 2023 (UTC)jamieth