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Jun 12, 2007 13:32

What's this now? (looking from afar). This thing still work? (poke). Sure has been awhile (prod). I wonder if anyone still uses this confounded device of self-spillage (well... I know they do, I looked up the recent posts). I always feel strange coming back to this site after a several year hiatus, but here I am, so there you go. I should ( Read more... )

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lizsname June 12 2007, 18:47:28 UTC

welcome back?

hp June 12 2007, 19:12:17 UTC

I'm jumping back into the pool. Mostly to renew ties with friends. Such as yourself. That was fast. Hello!

lizsname June 12 2007, 20:30:43 UTC

i unfortunately am easily distracted and occassionally spend work-time checkin' the ol' LJ. i was surprised to see your icon pop up.

where are you staying now? p-town? blormal?

lizsname June 12 2007, 20:31:23 UTC

occasionally.

also unfortunately, i still can't spell.

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_no_difference June 12 2007, 19:16:42 UTC

Shut the fuck up, ass.

hp June 12 2007, 19:17:41 UTC

Muwahahahahaha... not likely.

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Bruce! hp June 14 2007, 19:03:12 UTC

You make an interesting point. I can only suppose I muddled something along the way, for this paradox was produced by a mind much brighter than mine. I'll try to clear things up, and if this doesn't suffice, I'll have to go to the story afresh from the horses mouth just to be safe ( ... )

Re: Bruce! hp June 14 2007, 19:04:18 UTC

i missed one the combos with my example: 1,2,3 is the last possible combination.

Re: Bruce! nireus June 15 2007, 14:41:39 UTC

You missed one more actually. Don´t forget that the empty set is a subset of every set, and a set of n objects has 2^n objects in its power set. So the power set of your set of 3 objects should have 2^3 = 2*2*2 = 8 objects in its power set.

Namely, the power set of {1, 2, 3} is {0, {1}, {2}, {3}, {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {2, 3}, {1, 2, 3}}, where 0 denotes the empty set (my Spanish keyboard doesn´t have the 0 with the line through it, which is the typical notation for the empty set). Since this is a finite set, we also know that all sets of order 3 (that is, sets with three unique objects in them) are isomorphic to this set.

nireus June 13 2007, 16:49:42 UTC

Wow Be7y (Be7y being your true name), it´s been awhile...your LJ picture is from like 3 houses ago. I know all about sets and power sets, so as soon as my Spanish sister (I´m in Spain now) turns her music down to less than 90 decibals I´ll try get to work on understanding the posted paradox. As of right now concentrating is pretty hard. So that you have something to do in the meantime, you can spend some time resting in the discomfort that comes from knowing your keyboard doesn´t have an ñ key on it...muhahahaha!

rad_jose June 15 2007, 14:14:09 UTC

Be7y is back from his tour of the underworld! YAY! What's up man? How's things? I miss all you crazy Peoria bastards! This post is awesome, and so was the one after this, keep with the paradoxes and such. Nice to see something from you again.