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20:15
Good day @BrevanEllefsen
@Nilknarf I wouldn't recommend reading it. It's old garbage from a few years ago.
@Typhon Oh :(
the math is a bit trivial in hindsight and the exposition is... not real good
idk
@SimplyBeautifulArt I'm trying to do some analysis with the Lambert W function
for me, hindsight is incredibly critical
20:23
WHOA
Where'd everyone come from!?
x.x
@Nilknarf what of it?
@SimplyBeautifulArt Just trying to prove some properties
@Typhon Using 300 bytes, can you make a number larger than I can in 101 bytes?
Ah, okay @Nilknarf
well of course
@SimplyBeautifulArt Derivative, antiderivative
i can add 1
XD
20:26
@Typhon Oh, but I'm not going to show you my number until you show me yours
@Nilknarf mine is more about ways to integrate piecewise constant functions.
@Nilknarf Ah, okay
But I'm stuck on
$$\int_0^\infty W\bigg(\frac{1}{x^2}\bigg)dx$$
@55Cancri If you want, you can try the challenge as well. Make a larger number than I can, where you use 300 bytes and I'll use 101 bytes.
@SimplyBeautifulArt nah. You are way better than me. I could probably improve functions, but you are the big numbers guy. I'm the "differential equations/geometry/logic/number theory" guy.
big numbers don't intrigue me in that sense
20:27
@Nilknarf Oh deary me, one of those integrals I see
there's no use for them aside from the thrill of the pursuit
@SimplyBeautifulArt I know the answer thanks to wikipedia, but I can't figure out how to get it
Well... technically, they can be used in proof theory, but I imagine you also don't care about that @Typhon
@Nilknarf my paper would be helpful, but I honestly don't know the piecewise constant resulting. Read the section on implied integration. It would be quite helpful.
@Typhon Ok
20:29
@SimplyBeautifulArt actually, I like proofs a lot. Writing them and such. However, that's probably not what you mean.
@BrevanEllefsen Do you know how to do the above integral?
wait...
that's 1/x^2 isn't it?
well that's fine. Just focus on finding the antiderivative to the right of 0
@Typhon Prove there exists a total computable function that cannot be proven total in Peano Arithmetic.
@SimplyBeautifulArt Would it help if I told you what Wikipedia said the answer is?
No thanks @Nilknarf
20:33
@SimplyBeautifulArt I don't know "total computable" and I don't know "Peano Arithmetic"
regardless, I have to go soon
Well, than I'll have to see you go soon @Typhon
@Typhon Nope, not my thing xD
im thinking it might relate to some kind of curvature algebra rather than linear algebra
@Typhon I think triangular matrices are a thing
20:34
@Nilknarf umm...
those are just square matrices that have been reduced
they aren't literally a triangular grid
but im mostly thinking of ones shaped like surface geometries
Well whatever
Oh.
so like a 'matrix' that is literally shaped like a torus.
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Q: Evaluation of an integral involving the Lambert W function

ArgonWikipedia claims that $$\int_0^\infty W\left(\frac{1}{x^2}\right) \,\text dx=\sqrt{2\pi}$$ and a numerical computation seems to confirm this. How can this result be proven?

i surmise that they're algebrae will relate in some way to the geodesics of their respective surfaces
and also their concept of circles
in other words: i believe that the algebra of a matrix relates inherently to the surface geometry it is written upon assuming that you don't just project a euclidean one.
Similarly,
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Q: Does $\int_0^{\infty} \left( p + q W \left( r e^{- s x + t} \right) + u x \right) e^{- x} d x$ have a closed-form expression?

crowDoes $\int_0^{\infty} \left( p + q W \left( r e^{- s x + t} \right) + u x \right) e^{- x} d x$ (with 6 variables) where W is the Lambert W function (also known as ProductLog in Mathematica) have a closed-form expression? If we drop the variable $s$ from the expression Maple is able calculate $$ ...

20:37
i think that the rows and columns will distort in some way
shrugs
maybe its just a quack thought
the other guy used to think those a lot. I got rid of him. He was annoying.
@Typhon A matrix shaped like a torus? How would that even work?
@Nilknarf that's the point of the question essentially.
how would it work and has anyone studied it
there is an implied sense of being... creative.
i mean that in a healthy sense. I imagine that there is a logical means by which one could think out a way of interpreting matrix multiplication with toroidal matrices.
perhaps it might even lead to ways of expressing different exotic isometries
matrices do not represent the isometries of torus's very well
i mean... except a few trivial ones.
@Typhon Toroidal matrices seems like a bit of a jump. Perhaps it would be best to try easier surfaces first.
@Nilknarf the question is pretty general. So... to be fair one could try anything that they see as easy for them. I phrased it so that while it is definitively answerable, one can somewhat come up a general idea. :-)
oh hey typhon
20:44
matrices relate to vector which relate to points. So it might also be possible that a non-euclidean matrix gives a way of parameterizing points that map properly to other types of surfaces.
idk really
it might also end up like number theory:
Hello and welcome to my realm? @Avantgarde
totally and 100% useless
@SimplyBeautifulArt Hello and thank you!
Do I know you from somewhere? @Avantgarde
Just curious
20:45
@SimplyBeautifulArt We talked the other day in the math chat
For a bit
Ah, okay
You looked familiar :P
yeah, I didn't know this room was yours
@Avantgarde It isn't. It is the property of Stack Exchange.
@Typhon Bleh! SHOO GOVERNMENT SPY!
20:47
√_√
@SimplyBeautifulArt hahaha. Typhon is the government.
time for new elections then
I swear I already paid my taxes
ROFLMAO
@SimplyBeautifulArt that face. It reminds of something from a while ago. Wow. That is an old reference
how did you get an image of True Valhalla's avatar from the old game maker forums?
20:50
>_ಠ
He's still here...
or was there a link to that image on the wiki I showed you?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
...is that a common emote or something?
20:51
Appears so
oh...
i thought that was the guy's custom art. XD
nvmd then
@SimplyBeautifulArt even your taxes on the illegal ugg boot trafficking?
we know about that
@SimplyBeautifulArt ok that's just creepy
* ::cocks the shotgun:: *
im sorry nvmd
wait...
20:52
* ::points to the door:: *
grabs shotgun and breaks it in half
Ok, I gotta go
Oh, okay, cya @Nilknarf
Shotguns. don't. work. on. me.
XD
alrighty. Enough goofing around.
:: backs away slowly and slips out the back door::
20:53
Cya ‮@Nilknarf
@Nilknarf I said enough goofing around.
ew
quit making kissing faces
you're a man
act manly.
show off your big numbers
wait...
is displaying big numbers like flexing big muscles?
anyway
bye
20:55
50¢
everybody left
21:11
Lol
Well, what do you like to do? @Avantgarde
quite a few things @SimplyBeautifulArt Primarily diving into oceans
xD What do you like to do that's math related?
physics
∆_∆
21:16
∩_∩
$\rightarrow_\rightarrow$
$\rightarrow$_$\rightarrow$
$\mathcal N$_$\mathcal N$
$$\huge\overbrace{\left(\ddot{\stackrel{\quad>}{\smile}}\right)}_{\begin{align}---‌​‌​\qquad\ \end{align}}$$
21:31
$$\huge \overbrace{\left(\frown-\overline{\overline{\boxed\circ}}\underline{\ >}\overline{\boxed\circ}\right)}$$
21:57
@SimplyBeautifulArt You messaged me about an integral? Which integral?
Nvm, we solved it
It was this one:
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Q: Evaluation of an integral involving the Lambert W function

ArgonWikipedia claims that $$\int_0^\infty W\left(\frac{1}{x^2}\right) \,\text dx=\sqrt{2\pi}$$ and a numerical computation seems to confirm this. How can this result be proven?

@SimplyBeautifulArt I remember reading that post a while back. Integrals with W function are quite interesting.
Yes they are...
I think I am going to try to crack this integral next week
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Q: An integral of a rational function of logarithm and nonlinear arguments

Zaid AlyafeaiThis problem was posted in I&S $$ \int_{0}^{1} \dfrac{\log x \log (1+x) \log (1+x+x^{2})}{(1-x)(1+x^{2})}\,dx \approx -0.223434$$ I am not sure if there exists a closed form but it seems worth trying. I am completely clueless on how to start with this beast. It is worth saying that $1-x^3= (1-...

22:00
I can split it into 4 integrals trivially
8 of them with a little work
where I can reduce the denominator to a quadratic
in each integral
then I just have to find a way to express everything in terms of Beta Function and its derivatives
Mhm...
Beta functions lead to Gamma functions which lead to digamma functions I presume?
Yup
I've been splitting my time between researching integrals like it to study up on known techniques (such as learning a bunch of Euler sums)
as well as studying Complex Analysis rigorously
it is amazing what the Heine Borel theorem can do
Btw, I had recently thought up a neat trick
Let $f(x)=\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}f(x,n)$ and $f(x,y)$ be a smooth function of two variables. Then,
$$\sum_{k=1}^nf(x,k)=nf(x)+\sum_{k=1}^\infty f(x,k)-f(x,k+n)$$
Now the RHS is continuous with respect to $n$, so you can differentiate or integrate it
Haven't found it particularly useful yet though.
Hm... one could try Taylor expanding the Harmonic numbers...
$$H_n=\sum_{k=1}^n\frac1k=\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac1k-\frac1{k+n}$$
$$H_0=0\\H_0'=\zeta(2)\\H_0''=-2\zeta(3)\\\vdots$$
$$H_n=\sum_{k=2}^\infty(-1)^k\zeta(k)n^{k-1}$$
Huh, nifty...
Ugh, not on a comp with ChatJax
gotta install it
22:16
xD
More or less, I think I just solved the power series with $\zeta(k)$ as coefficients
Woo! That's... actually the Taylor series of the Harmonic numbers (or the related digamma function)
Wow
Yeah
I recognized it immediately
xD Well that was easy
that is a clean proof right there
Was honestly too easy :P
Why the $nf(x)$ in the sum above
I don't see why a term would show up multiplied by $n$
did you perhaps mean $f(x,n)$? Or am I missing something obvious
Seems like the sum is just fine without that term
22:31
@BrevanEllefsen Check how the telescoping works
If $n\in\mathbb N$, then you should get $$\sum_{k=1}f(x,k)-f(x,k+n)=\sum_{k=1}^nf(x,k) -\lim_{t\to\infty}\sum_{i=t}^{t+n}f(x,i)$$
If $f(x)=\lim_{i\to\infty}f(x,n)$, then the last sum comes down to $nf(x)$
Odd. When I see $$\sum_{k=1}^\infty f(x,k)-f(x,k+n)$$ I think $$f(x,1)-f(x,n+1)+f(x,2)-f(x,n+2)+\cdots$$ which I would write as $$\left[f(x,1)+f(x,2)+\cdots f(x,n)\right]+\left[f(x,n+1)+f(x,n+2)+f(x,n+3)+\cdots\right] - \left[f(x,n+1)+f(x,n+2)+f(x,n+3)+\cdots\right] = \left[f(x,1)+f(x,2)+\cdots f(x,n)\right] = \sum_{k=1}^n f(x,k)$$
@SimplyBeautifulArt where did my logic go wrong there?
@BrevanEllefsen You need to rewrite it as a partial sum
$$\sum_{k=1}^tf(x,k)-f(x,k+n)$$
This way, you won't be able to do the silly trick where you ignore the last few terms
Ooooh, I see what you are saying
duh
I'm an idiot -_-
* ::facepalm:: *
Sounds like it is time for me to take a walk outside and get my head clear and working again
22:42
Okay
But before you leave me...
I'm trying to extend this to cases when $f(x,n)$ doesn't have a limit.
Yeah... I don't have many good ideas...
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