Ask me anything you like... Doesnt mean i'll answer though!

[Christopher McCandless]

teens have god complexes. you'll get over it. i hope.

Whats massively wrong with a god complex?

[The_P]

teens have god complexes. you'll get over it. i hope.

Whats massively wrong with a god complex?

Well, for one thing, it's hard to have a decent conversation when someone like yourself claims how superior they are. Talk about boring.

Do you score with chicks, drive a lavish car, levitate, shot fireballs, construct robotic colossus' of steel? No, so shush.

[SovaNu]

nuttin if you don't think you're the only god.

[Lucifer]

teens have god complexes. you'll get over it. i hope.

Whats massively wrong with a god complex?

Well, for one thing, it's hard to have a decent conversation when someone like yourself claims how superior they are. Talk about boring.

Do you score with chicks, drive a lavish car, levitate, shot fireballs, construct robotic colossus' of steel? No, so shush.

is that what god does, then?  funny -  i always thought he was a bloke with a long beard and a frock, who told people they couldn't have s e x.

of course, it depends which god you're talking about.   

[Christopher McCandless]

nuttin if you don't think you're the only god.

Dont worry, its just an aspiration. Being god on my own sounds massively boring actually.

[Calandale]

you're a doolally only because you erroneoysly called me a doolally.

I wouldnt use the word Erroneous. How good at math are you anyway?

i don't have a math ear. i'm great at imaginary math.

I am not sure you get imaginary math, its really a way of assuming you can root a negative number.

i get imaginary math. i'm not an eejit. you're the eejit, remember?

No you dont. If you do you can explain complex numbers, and then an Argand diagram then...

excuse me but don't tell me what i get and what i don't get. i do get it. you don't.

I think my further maths alevel is going to tell me otherwise, when i get the results next week. I did spend quite some time studying imaginary numbers, and i certainly understand them. Explian what you understand them as.

All numbers are imaginary. Just because mathematicians chose
a term which others might confuse is no reason to be an ass.

[Calandale]

teens have god complexes. you'll get over it. i hope.

Whats massively wrong with a god complex?

In your case, because it's false.

[Christopher McCandless]

you're a doolally only because you erroneoysly called me a doolally.

I wouldnt use the word Erroneous. How good at math are you anyway?

i don't have a math ear. i'm great at imaginary math.

I am not sure you get imaginary math, its really a way of assuming you can root a negative number.

i get imaginary math. i'm not an eejit. you're the eejit, remember?

No you dont. If you do you can explain complex numbers, and then an Argand diagram then...

excuse me but don't tell me what i get and what i don't get. i do get it. you don't.

I think my further maths alevel is going to tell me otherwise, when i get the results next week. I did spend quite some time studying imaginary numbers, and i certainly understand them. Explian what you understand them as.

All numbers are imaginary. Just because mathematicians chose
a term which others might confuse is no reason to be an ass.

No, numbers represent real things. Its only when you get onto the complex where something physically impossible is represented.

[Christopher McCandless]

teens have god complexes. you'll get over it. i hope.

Whats massively wrong with a god complex?

In your case, because it's false.

Time will tell :p

[Calandale]

No, numbers represent real things. Its only when you get onto the complex where something physically impossible is represented.

Indeed? What IS a number then?

And what is your means of individuation,
which allows you to number things?

[Christopher McCandless]

No, numbers represent real things. Its only when you get onto the complex where something physically impossible is represented.

Indeed? What IS a number then?

And what is your means of individuation,
which allows you to number things?

Normal numbers represent real things, so how many books are on a shelf, what proportions a cake has been cut into etc. Negative numbers can represent an absense of something. How can you directly represent a real thing with x + yi ?

[Calandale]

No, numbers represent real things. Its only when you get onto the complex where something physically impossible is represented.

Indeed? What IS a number then?

And what is your means of individuation,
which allows you to number things?

Normal numbers represent real things, so how many books are on a shelf, what proportions a cake has been cut into etc. Negative numbers can represent an absense of something. How can you directly represent a real thing with x + yi ?

How many is a number - an abstraction of the mind.
Proportions likewise. The cake MIGHT be a real
thing, if you come up with some method of individuating
it - both from all other cakes, and more difficultly, from the
other 'stuff' around.

My point is, like words, numbers are just a part of our models.
They don't have any reality of their own.

[Christopher McCandless]

No, numbers represent real things. Its only when you get onto the complex where something physically impossible is represented.

Indeed? What IS a number then?

And what is your means of individuation,
which allows you to number things?

Normal numbers represent real things, so how many books are on a shelf, what proportions a cake has been cut into etc. Negative numbers can represent an absense of something. How can you directly represent a real thing with x + yi ?

How many is a number - an abstraction of the mind.
Proportions likewise. The cake MIGHT be a real
thing, if you come up with some method of individuating
it - both from all other cakes, and more difficultly, from the
other 'stuff' around.

My point is, like words, numbers are just a part of our models.
They don't have any reality of their own.

I might have to conceed a little here, now I have got you.

[Calandale]

No. I'm too dim to see where some alluded to
concession wins the point.

[Christopher McCandless]

No. I'm too dim to see where some alluded to
concession wins the point.

Stop being obtuse.