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Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

66 pointsby muonalmost 15 years ago

5 comments

senkialmost 15 years ago
"The formula itself is a general purpose method of decoding a bitmap stored in the constant n, so it could actually be used to draw any other image, and does not in fact contain any reference to itself."<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formula" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formul...</a>
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mattsouthalmost 15 years ago
That is a big number. This reminds me of the old adage about monkeys and typewriters eventually writing Shakespeare's plays (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem</a>)
aarontalmost 15 years ago
This is one of my SE prof's close colleagues. He showed this in class.
longalmost 15 years ago
this is awesome. how'd you stumble onto it?
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zackattackalmost 15 years ago
Someone wanna prove this on WolframAlpha.com?