| medfly | im learning complex numbers in school and they use a little line above z to say its the opposite, a-ib instead of a+ib |
| me22 | conjugate, not opposite |
| medfly | ok, im sorry, i just dont study the english terms for everything |
| me22 | not a problem |
| medfly | so they want me to prove z1*z2 (both with lines above them) is the same as z1*z2 (with a big continuous line above) i dont know what it means if theres a continuous line.. whats that? |
| TRWBW | conjugate medfly: the complex conjugate is a-ib |
| medfly | ok :) |
| me22 | medfly: conjugate(z1)*conjugate(z2) = conjugate(z1*z2) the line is just the conjugation operator of if it's over the whole thing, then it applies to the product |
| medfly | oh.. so im supposed to get the product and then change the sign? |
| action | ology gets overwhelmed looking at all the "coincidences" in the Fibonacci sequence and resolves to just use it to make interesting music (as opposed to algorithmic geek cacophony). |
| ology | gets overwhelmed looking at all the "coincidences" in the Fibonacci sequence and resolves to just use it to make interesting music (as opposed to algorithmic geek cacophony). |
| action | cog slaps ology around a bit with a large trout |
| cog | slaps ology around a bit with a large trout |
| Kasadkad` | ology: what kind of stuff are you looking at? |
| Hikaru79 | Hehe, can anyone identify this? :) http://www.mathbin.net/9273 Despite how complicated it looks, it represents a pretty elementary idea. |
| Kasadkad` | Sure, it's the partition function |
| ology | stuff? Googling for anything related to the Fibonacci sequence - specifically related to musical things. |
| Hikaru79 | =O That was fast |
| action | Kasadkad` shrugs |
| Kasadkad` | shrugs |
| Olathe | The mathbin help thing covers the expression |
| Hikaru79 | But yes, you are correct |
| Kasadkad` | I certainly have no idea how that formula works, but I've seen it before and I have a good memory |
| ology | Many URL's... |
| Kasadkad` | ology: I've been looking at the Fibonacci sequence myself lately |
| TRWBW | ology: it doubt there is much more music to it than any other geometric sequence. |
| ology | cog: That trout is a couple decades out of date ;) |
| Olathe | Is it the nth prime thingy ? |
| ology | Kasadkad`: Very cool. Just curious about number theory things or a specific curiosity, maybe? TRWBW: There is much more. Beethoven's 5th for instance... That's mostly about phi, though. |
| TRWBW | ology: that's what i meant |
| ology | TRWBW: I'm sorry. I misread what you'd said. oops |
| TRWBW | ology: i wasn't very clear. fib series is mostly just phi^n |
| Kasadkad` | ology: just a homework problem asking about some divisibility properties of Fibonacci numbers, and I got carried away |
| ology | heh |
| Kasadkad` | It's pretty neat though |
| ology | I agree |