Mathematics - 2013-02-19 (page 5 of 5)

Khromonkey

23:00

@mick its been there 7 months or so

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

and the universe has somehow survived

mick

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez I think the question will become community wiki.

Khromonkey

@I have requested him to change it like 3 times

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

is there an explanation of the problem in the question as a comment, and in the answer?

mick

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez the mayans were wrong

Khromonkey

23:00

Yes

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

well, then

mick

@Khromonkey oh I see the issue then

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

tha's about all you can do

Khromonkey

thats why I asked you for help

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

as I said, I do not delete wrong content

mods do not do that

Khromonkey

23:01

DO you know Robert Israel

?

He is a really good user

mick

me ?

yes I said above 75k

Khromonkey

I think, but he hasn't updated that question

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

what i am saying is independent of the question, of the OP, of the answerer

mick

above 50 k you are probably going to be busy :)

Khromonkey

so then you can't help me?

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

23:02

I am telling you there is nothing to be done

you have done as much as can be done

Khromonkey

what?

that's nonesense

user19161

Just leave a comment on an answer you think is wrong.

mick

yeah , like he admitted its wrong. and the other guy got 0 votes so ...

user19161

The comment would suffice.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

I repeat: it is not the role of moderators to delete wrong material

user19161

23:03

It is up to the answerer if he wants to delete it.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

it would be abusing my powers to do so

Khromonkey

@JacobBlack he got 20 rep out of that answer

mick

Everyone serious about math will read the comments anyway

Khromonkey

and it's wrong!!! He said so himself

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

I am sure he is in some island in the pacific enjoying the money he got out of those 20 points, then!

3

that's why he is not answering!

oh the horror

user19161

23:04

Of course, mods can delete wrong answers, but they don't have to.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

I can do anything, pretty much

Khromonkey

Just because its not terrible doesn't mean nothing should be done

user19161

It is better to leave it to the answerer himself to delete.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

I am not going to start checking answers for correctness

user19161

So @khr I hope I have answered all your questions.

Khromonkey

23:05

no, thats why I am doing it for you

mick

hey chuck norris can do anything , but he wont listen :)

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

oh, so I should be your proxy, then

Khromonkey

if the answerer admits it's wrong doesnt it mean you are abusing your mod powers

user19161

Case closed @khr, QED.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

«no, your honor, I was not abusing my powers, I wasd just acting upon K's intructions!>>

let me be even more clear

I WILL NOT DELETE ANY ANSWER BECAUSE IT IS WRONG

Khromonkey

23:06

I was just deleting your answer, the one you said was wrong

user19161

Also, 20k users can cast delete votes on answers.

mick

@Khromonkey for real you cant stand someone with 75k gaining 20 ?

Khromonkey

oh great, I guess Ill get my 20k points and do it in an hour

user19161

This is for the negatively voted answers.

user19161

It takes 3 delete votes to destroy an answer.

Khromonkey

23:07

@mick I don't care that much about the wrong answer, I just want a correct one really

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

then add a correct answer

Khromonkey

but its hard to get a correct answer when it allready has 2 wrong ones

mick

Robert Israel only makes intresting mistakes :)

Khromonkey

nobody will see it

user19161

@khr Don't bother Mariano with such trivialities, you can just ask a banana like me if you are not sure about how the site works!

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

23:08

sigh

Khromonkey

@JacobBlack the banana was off-branch

David Wheeler

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez i feel much more confident in my freedom to post poorly reasoned and incorrect answers, now. Now, then, where are those 1+1 = 0? questions...

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

the someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet-and-doesn't-answer-my-pings phenomenon

mick

@Khromonkey that is not true. the true answer will get the highest votes , you can accept it , and then it will be ON TOP

Khromonkey

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez Is this common?

user19161

23:09

@Khromonkey Well, I am sure there are many wrong answers on SE even.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

well, there is a xkcd strip for it

Khromonkey

@JacobBlack why dont you answer the question instead

mick

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez that is as good as a proof then :)

user19161

@Khromonkey I don't know what you are talking about, and I may not know the answer.

Khromonkey

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Q: proof about factorials

Prove that any natural number $x$ such that $x<n!$ is the sum of at most $n$ distinct divisors of $n!$.

I think you don't know the answer but I think you can solve it

user19161

23:10

@Khromonkey So where is the wrong answer?

Khromonkey

the one that says -OOPS this is wrong-

mick

wait 23 < 4! , 23 = 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + ... whoops ? @Khromonkey

Khromonkey

what?

mick

isnt that a counter example ?

user19161

@Khromonkey Aha, so why not just let it lie there if he doesn't want to delete it?

Khromonkey

23:12

In reality I want a soultion

solution

Dominic Michaelis

$$ x(t)=\frac{3}{2} \cdot \sin⁡{2 t}$$

mick

ah wait sorry

user19161

It is a very interesting question @khr.

Dominic Michaelis

i get a math processor error by mathjax

Peter Tamaroff

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez Hello

Khromonkey

23:13

but most people wont answer it if they see 2 answers

mick

@Khromonkey Not if they read they are wrong

user19161

I hate number theory, but I have not seen the problem before.

Khromonkey

@JacobBlack I'm glad you think that

mick

But wait a minute !!

user19161

@Khromonkey Well, I have not seen many problems honestly.

Khromonkey

23:14

My classmate gave it to me, but he is smart so I can't do it

mick

it has the homework tag , so it must have a solution ??

user19161

I am going to eat now, bye.

Khromonkey

happy eating

mick

bye @JacobBlack

Khromonkey

@mick what?

I don't know why it has that tag

mick

23:15

@Khromonkey I just said bye to Jacob ?

@Khromonkey you gave it. Or you should edit it. that might help you !

Khromonkey

@I mean the homework tag thing

I didn't give it

mick

Or ask your friend.

David Wheeler

@DominicMichaelis your statement is causing my chatjax to go a bit crazy

mick

@Khromonkey well someone did. so it was edited and can be edited again.

but why not ask your friend for the solution then ?

Dominic Michaelis

@David i know it was in unicode i tried to fix it

(a question)

now i know where the problem was

Khromonkey

23:16

he is no longer in my school, he explained it to me once, but I didn't understand anything and just nodded

mick

@Khromonkey find him , call him , send a detective :)

David Wheeler

sooner or later, someone will probably post a better answer @Khromonkey

mick

@DavidWheeler yeah. maybe me :)

David Wheeler

if you simply MUST have it, you can always put a bounty on it

mick

@DavidWheeler that can help , but it never helped me though.

Khromonkey

23:18

I'm gonna ask my friend

David Wheeler

it's not a perfect world. my apologies.

mick

and answer yourself !

MSE is perfect !

@DavidWheeler MSE is perfect !

lol

David Wheeler

@mick MSE tries hard...perfect? i think not.

mick

anyone into tetration here ?

If not , im going offline.

wind blows

thumbleweed

bye guys

Dominic Michaelis

bye

Khromonkey

23:24

c ya later

does anyone here like combinatorics?

pourjour

23:35

anyone have some knowledge about impedance in series RLC

MathGeek

is anyone good at categorical analysis?

Halil Duru

Analysts here should look [math.stackexchange.com/questions/308247/…

Will Jagy

@Khromonkey, why do you think the statement in that problem is true? What is the source?

Khromonkey

I got it as a homewrok problem on a math competition

One of my friends said he had solved it @WillJagy

Will Jagy

At this point, you can identify the camp and post a jpeg of the problem, giving names of the people running the camp, or, and this is better, you can delete your question. I do not care what your friend says he did.

Khromonkey

23:43

what?

why would I delete it just because no one has answered it?

and why is it better?

Will Jagy

You have wasted peoples' time on a fishing expedition. You do not know the thing is true.

Khromonkey

The only way to know it is true is by getting the proof

which I don't have

Peter Tamaroff

Did @MarianoSuárez-Alvarez drop by before?

Will Jagy

There may be no proof, as it may be false.

Khromonkey

Besides, the validity of the question is not altered by fishing expeditions

Will Jagy

23:47

Well, fairly simple then, Voting to close as not a real question. This may have little effect, as five votes are required to do anything.

Khromonkey

how is it not a real question?

Am I only allowed to ask for proofs I allready know?

@WillJagy i'm sorry if I made you angry but I don't think it is not a real question, why should It be deleted if it has +7 votes?

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