| CicciuxLa | obviously, otherwise you wouldn't ask that. Mathematicians love to classify numbers... |
| chino | yea i figured you guys just like to play around with properties of numbers and equations |
| CicciuxLa | they even have 'perfect' numbers, you know... funny ones those are... a bit annoying since nobody seems to know how many there are... |
| chino | why are they perfect? |
| TRWBW | chino: the aren't, it's sort of an ironic name, like a sarcastic, "he's so perfect" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number |
| Kasadkad | CicciuxLa: there are infinitely many |
| Eclipsor | well, have you counted to infinity, Kasadkad ? |
| CicciuxLa | Kasadkad: i have seen no proof yet. |
| Kasadkad | Hmm Okay, I guess that's not proved |
| chino | isn't the multiplicative inverse a bit wierd ? |
| Kasadkad | I thought it was like every number of some form is perfect, but it's every even perfect number is of some form But you know, I don't like to label numbers |
| chino | you know "a/b=a(1/b)" |
| Kasadkad | I have irrational and composite friends |
| Steve|Office | The question is how many primitive elements are there in F_{2^6}. To be primitive they must have order 63. phi(63)=24 so my guess is there are 23 elements of order 63. Is that even remotely reasonable? |
| chino | where b!=0 |
| Kasadkad | Steve|Office: It's 24 |
| chino | tell me that isn't weird ? |
| Kasadkad | phi(d) is the number of elements in a cyclic group with order d (where d divides the order of the group) chino: ? |
| chino | wha t? |
| Steve|Office | Okay. I really wish I knew this stuff. |
| Kasadkad | Multiplicative inverses aren't weird Everyone likes second chance You do something, you want to be able to undo it |
| chino | i wonna know wht the multiplicative inverse works the 2nd side of the equal size appears to be how you would get the percentage of a number |
| Steve|Office | Huh? |
| chino | how the hell does that correlate to the result of deviding |
| Eclipsor | ugh my book doesnt cover this problem at all |
| chino | what problem ? |
| CicciuxLa | what are you talking about chino? |
| Polytope | by the way, phi(63) = 36 |
| Eclipsor | Use the derivative to determine whether the function f(x)=cos(3x/2) is strictly monotonic on its entire domain and whether it has an inverse function. what's strictly monotonic? and how would that help me find if it has an inverse |
| CicciuxLa | what is the domain? |