Thursday, February 24, 2011

QQC #11

"By the time we reach the 20th perfect number, its size has become unthinkable huge. The 20th prefect number has an astonishing 5,834 (its so big it would fill this entire page)."

That's insane and why do they even need to know this how often does this help or come up when trying to solve something.

Are these Perfect or other kinds of unique numbers even useful or are they just a cool thing to point out?

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

QQC #10

"The answer was long, but essentially said:..."


I think that's insane we have a radio that's 50 NM across. I cant even think how they would construct that.

Well that was the last page that i could read and i would really like to know what Budhha "essentially said".

QQC #9

"... You would have struggled to tell the difference between six apples and seven."


I could see how counting might not have been a Strong thing for people or anything else back then but I think that they could still count and see the difference between 9 and 10 no problem. Maybe not think to deep about it but still able to tell the difference.

How could they tell that people had trouble between 6 and 7? that just sounds like a wild guess to me

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

QQC #8

"This is chiefly because i am never satisfied until i have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far ore time than writing at length. One of the effects of this habit is that his publications concealed almost as much as they revealed..."

I could see how fewer words could make it easy and less time consuming to understand but at the same time like it says up top what if there isn't enough info.

Why would he use fewer words if it "concealed" something especially in his proofs.

QQC #7

"The publication of his complete works was started in 1911, and the end is not in sight."

You think if this guy was so bright and had so much worked published that was proved that people would have noticed more now and then. I myself have never heard of him until this packet.

Why don't we learn more about him or is not not taught until college?

QQC #6

"...More than 15,000 letters written by Leibniz in correspondence with 1063 different people."


Thats a lot of people. Most people now days probably don't even know 1000 people to talk to that have similar interest.

I wonder if during talking the each other how often all these people didn't get along and if there were always a couple different sides going back and forth on a topic.