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11:10 AM
@Blue you around?
 
Anonymous
Yup!
 
@Blue You have e-mail ...
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie I replied. :) BTW "holiday photos" ;)
 
@Blue I don't want the India customs to take an interest. Labelling it holiday photos worked when I sent some stuff to Kaumudi so I figure it's worth trying again :-)
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie I realized. Great plan. :P Thanks a lot though. I've never used a SSD before.
 
11:22 AM
I'll put it in the post tomorrow and it takes around seven days. Expect it at some point in the week starting 18th Sep.
 
Anonymous
When it reaches perhaps you'll need to teach me how to install it. :)
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Yup, I'll inform my parents to collect it in case I'm not home when it arrives.
 
SSDs work just like regular disks, only faster. No special installation is required.
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Oooo. Great then! :)
 
All you have to do is remove the old disk and put in the SSD. If you're unsure how to do this there are manuals for your laptop on Dell's web site. Remind me what model laptop you have and I can find the URL for the manual.
 
Anonymous
11:25 AM
@JohnRennie It's E4310. Sure, once it arrives I'll check out the manual and do the needful.
 
This disk looks very easy to remove. Just remove two screws and it slides out.
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Gotcha. I'll read it.
 
Oh, and I've included a USB key with the W10 install image that I use. You can use that or the install image you downoaded from MS as you want.
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie lol...I should buy a screwdriver from a local shop before it arrives in that case. :)
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Awesome!
 
11:33 AM
Any small Phillips screwdriver will do. I have a set of high quality jewellers screwdrivers for dismantling laptops because I do it so much, but for just removing the disk any old screwdriver is fine.
 
Anonymous
Yup. I'll get one. :D
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
Bwahahahahaha
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie See what I found in my engineering drawing box
 
Anonymous
And it works!
 
Anonymous
11:39 AM
I can easily open my laptop's screws with it
 
Anonymous
:D
 
Cool :-)
Though go carefully with the screws because if you damage the head it can be a hell of a job to get them out. Though the disk screws won't be in very tightly.
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Okay, will keep that in mind. :-)
 
AH I'VE Thought up an idea, and it's confused me...
think of a clock face, with the arms moving from a control somewhere
when you move them, the 'center' of the arm, rotates slower than the outermost point, is that right?
if not, that explains it lol
the distance traveled at the outer point is more than near the center, so surely it's faster?
 
Anonymous
@djsmiley2k rotates is not the right word.
 
Anonymous
11:49 AM
Angular velocity is same for both the points
 
Anonymous
Well, the centre doesn't rotate at all :P
 
Anonymous
But yes, the outer points move faster than the inner points which are closer to the centre.
 
yup
ok, now lets imagine it's 1 million miles long
how fast can the end point get?!
 
@djsmiley2k Are you thinking you could get the end to move faster than light?
 
Anonymous
@djsmiley2k If it gets close to $c$ then you would probably need to take relativistic effects into account
 
11:57 AM
If so, I'm afraid that wouldn't work.
 
Anonymous
@djsmiley2k For rotating you would also need to supply energy constantly. Remember that $P=\tau\omega$
 
@JohnRennie No, i was thinking it can't move faster than light, butI was wondering 'why'
 
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Q: Rotate a long bar in space and get close to (or even beyond) the speed of light $c$

Hernan EcheImagine a bar spinning like a helicopter propeller, At $\omega$ rad/s because the extremes of the bar goes at speed $$V = \omega * r$$ then we can reach near $c$ (speed of light) applying some finite amount of energy just doing $$\omega = V / r$$ The bar should be long, low density, stron...

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Q: Extended Rigid Bodies in Special Relativity

KitchiI was reading Landau & Lifshitz's Classical Theory of Fields and I noticed that they mention that an extended rigid body isn't "relativistically correct". For example, if you consider a rigid rod and apply a torque at one end, by definition of being rigid, the whole body must start rotating at ...

 
ok ty
so..... the closer it gets, the harder it becomes
 
Anonymous
@djsmiley2k It's really the same reason as to why it gets harder to move normal objects at speeds close to $c$.
 
Anonymous
12:06 PM
So, yes.
 
ok, fine :) that makes sense to my brain at least, ty guys :)
(and girls)
 
Anonymous
@djsmiley2k Professor Shankar's lectures on Special Relativity are great. Perhaps you should have a look. :)
 
Anonymous
It helped me getting started with the basics.
 
If I getr a chance I'll try
(kids.... they have the same relativistic properties as a black hole - there's no time when you're near them!)
 
12:56 PM
@ACuriousMind mods can review more than 20 cvs in a day?
 
@heather Yes, moderators have unlimited close votes and reviews. Which is useful for cutting down an exceptionally large queue, as you can see. However, if it grows to that size again soon, this is not sustainable and we need to get more people to review.
 
i'm all out of votes, i ran out at ~7:20 last night (and at 6:57 last night).
 
Yeah, that used to happen regularly to me
 
1:29 PM
Bernardo texted me a picture of him compiling the kernel
I'm worried about him
 
I reasked my question on Phys SE from Chem SE, would still appreciate an answer
 
1:48 PM
Thanks @EmilioPisanty I finally have an answer :D
 
2:14 PM
@Phase if the chem.se post has not been deleted, both should indicate the presence of the cross-post.
 
did @JohnRennie ever show up?
 
crap, did he die?
 
Me and Taylor Swift
 
The real tragedy is TayTay dying
 
2:27 PM
Thanks for that :-)
 
@JohnRennie I'm surprised you haven't cleaned the star board
 
The star board looks OK to me. Nothing scandalous or libellous on it :-)
So far ... :-)
 
@JohnRennie how long does uncooked bacon last in the fridge
I just found some that I had forgotten about
 
I think bacon lasts more or less indefinitely because it's salted so bugs can't grow in it. As long as it's still pink |(not green!) it should be fine. But I'd be sure to cook it thoroughly though.
 
2:45 PM
@JohnRennie see you on the other side
 
Dying of eating bacon has to be one of the better ways to go :-)
 
@JohnRennie it was overcooked
 
user228700
3:03 PM
@JohnRennie My condolences.
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Dyou know what I'm having for dinner tonight?!
 
Black pudding
 
user228700
Oh bleh.
 
@Kaumudi.H I'm tempted to make some facetious guesses, but perhaps not :-)
This was my lunch:
 
user228700
@JohnRennie :-) Oh, that's alright, go ahead.
 
user228700
3:08 PM
@JohnRennie What are those?
 
Meat and cabbage croquettes.!
 
Where is the green stuff
 
user228700
Wow.
 
user228700
That's a lot of 'em!
 
JR does eat a lot...
 
user228700
3:09 PM
When dinner arrives, I will photograph it for you. For now, it remains a surprise!
 
Amazing metabolism
 
Morning
 
user228700
@SirCumference Oh, hey! :-) How went the sleeping?
 
@Kaumudi.H It's meat and cabbage wrapped in pancakes, then egged and breaded and fried.
 
@Kaumudi.H Sadly, not well. :/
 
user228700
3:09 PM
@JohnRennie I see. Did u make 'em?
 
This cold is pretty bad. I'll have to buy something for it.
 
user228700
@SirCumference Damn :-/
 
user228700
I suggest naps throughout the day!
 
@Kaumudi.H Yeah. Thanks for asking tho :)
 
user228700
Sure thing :-)
 
3:10 PM
@Kaumudi.H no. I bought them from the local supermarket.
 
user228700
Right, as I expected :-P
 
user228700
Dyou know what I did all evening?
 
@Kaumudi.H Assignments!
:: A guilty silence descends ::
 
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Q: Is my proof of $-1=\eta_{\alpha\beta}U^\alpha U^\beta$ right?

Bol Bol Osama Amiri tried to prove $$ -1=\eta_{\alpha\beta}U^\alpha U^\beta $$ in my way because i didn't understand from this $$ d\tau^2 =-\eta_{\alpha \beta} dx^\alpha dx^\beta $$ we get $$ -1=\eta_{\alpha\beta}U^\alpha U^\beta $$ which is from my text book so i made a prove and i hope if anyone could say th...

 
user228700
3:15 PM
@JohnRennie x'D
 
user228700
I'm sorry, my internet connection died for a bit there.
 
user228700
I didn't do that, no. I watched (parts) of the last two movies of the Harry Potter series for the umpteenth time this year.
 
@ACuriousMind what are some new games being released this season
 
@Kaumudi.H the films get to be like old friends, Even though you've seen them a dozen times they are still kind of cozy.
 
user228700
Old friends, exactly <3 :-)
 
user228700
3:19 PM
Oh, dinner's here, I'll come back with a picture later!
 
Some albums are like that for me. Dark Side of the Moon for example.
Not films though.
@Kaumudi.H Enjoy dinner!!
 
@BalarkaSen lol
but NO! I actually love Shankar
How bright is a 250 lm headlight? Does it suffice for hiking at night?
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa Sounds more than enough.
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa 6000 lumens? Are you going for hiking or planning to light up the whole locality's night sky? lol :P
 
Anonymous
6000 lumens will immediately blind anyone in front of you XD
 
@ACuriousMind @BalarkaSen What is p-adic Differential Equations/Geometry?
 
@Blue There are many headlights like this one, but the (slightly) more expensive ones are like this: amazon.com/dp/B06WWFW4YG/ref=psdc_3180291_t2_B011K7J69M
 
Anonymous
3:45 PM
@lılostafa By the way, I had a solid state question to ask you. Do you know what $n_i$ a.k.a degeneracy factor stands for in this article (look under 1D density of states)? Well, the website's cool ;)
 
Anonymous
What is the meaning of degeneracy factor?
 
Anonymous
Googling it doesn't help much.
 
@Blue degeneracy factor in general means the number of states with the same energy. (It has the same meaning in that article)
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa Hmm. But in 1D or 0D why would two states with same energy exist ? But in 2D,3D that's not allowed?
 
@Blue *For quantum structures with dimensions lower than 2, it is possible for the same energy level to occur for more than one arrangement of confined states. *
I don't know why ^
 
4:01 PM
this is the same as saying the hamiltonian or whatever has same eigenvalues for a bunch of eigenstates
I think
 
@BalarkaSen Yes but why the 1D and 0D cases differ from 2D and 3D problems?
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen Ya, but why wouldn't that happen for the 2D and 3D case?
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
Hmm. From here it seems for the same $E$ DOS can differ even for 2D.
 
Anonymous
We are surely going wrong somewhere
 
4:03 PM
@Mostafa @Blue Interesting.
I don't see why that should be true mathematically. Maybe this is a physical fact.
 
@Blue It can be understood easier in classical setups. For example, when counting the number of the states for a cavity (here), the electric field can have 2 perpendicular polarizations which means a degeneracy of 2
@BalarkaSen Do you mean we can have a mathematically false but physically true fact?
 
Oh no I mean maybe this is something specific to whatever system we are dealing with
In general particles in a square box are easy examples of quantum mechanical systems which do have equal eigenvalues for different eigenstates, I believe
 
shouldn't it (intuitively) be easier for higher dimensional problems to have more symmetries and higher degeneracies?!
@0ßelö7 please comment on this ^
@BalarkaSen ^
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa That's what they have written "too small to imply"
 
4:23 PM
@Blue maybe Britney's wrong.
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa Nope. That fact is written in many other books too.
 
Anonymous
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user228700
@JohnR: Are you around?
 
user228700
 
4:27 PM
@lılostafa No idea; this sounds like a PDE question 0celo would be able to answer. Cool question though.
 
user228700
Ah, damn, it's not a very good picture :-(
 
Chapati with chole and cheese?
 
Anonymous
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Chappati with gobi munchurian, paneer butter masala and a mixed vegetable curry.
 
@Blue yeah that's why I was talking about the square box
 
Anonymous
4:32 PM
Aha! Quantum dots can be at max triply degenerate while Quantum wires can be at max doubly degenerate.
 
@Blue But it doesn't say lower dimension
a square box is still a 3D problem
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa If it weren't we wouldn't have taken quantum effects into account. It's a 0D problem.
 
Anonymous
Read this for context:
 
@Kaumudi.H it looks great, but that is a small helping ...
 
Anonymous
Wait a bit....I closed the pdf by mistake
 
Anonymous
Yeah, page 18 and 19.
 
Anonymous
Basically it's talking about a quantum dot.
 
4:47 PM
@Blue Quantized (=having a discrete spectrum) is not the same as being quantum. A free particle is still a quantum particle while it has a continuous dispersion (E-k) diagram
@Kaumudi.H What does paneer mean?!
 
Anonymous
@lılostafa I didn't say that. I never mentioned anything about being quantum...
 
paneer is the farsi word for cheese! :)
 
Anonymous
paneer is a bit different from normal cheese
 
Anonymous
actually a lot different in taste :P
 
I (personally) call every kind of cheese paneer!
Damn, too many similar words
 
user228700
4:52 PM
@JohnRennie I ate, believe it or not, 7 rotis :-) Pictured is merely the first round.
 
Pig!!!
I would never eat that much :-)
 
user228700
LIES
 
user228700
:-)
 
Now I think about it, the last time I had chapatis I ate ten of them ...
... with chole.
 
user228700
Same to you, then! :-)
 
4:54 PM
Oink oink
 
user228700
Hehe :-) Only two more days at home :-( Well, one and a half.
 
Anonymous
We have puja holidays coming up :)
 
user228700
Ah, I'm afraid it will be December before I get a chance to come back home.
 
It's always a wrench to leave home after a holiday, but there is loads of exciting stuff to do at college ...
(and exams of course)
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Oh, at my college? x'D Really?
 
4:59 PM
Learning new stuff is always exciting. Even if it is damped simple harmonic motion! :-)
 
I think I've seen damped harmonic motion in four classes
 
user228700
Stupid DSHM. I still haven't understood it well enough!
 
...what is there to understand
 
user228700
...mostly because I haven't understood solving homogeneous second order differential equations yet. Or rather, I haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet.
 
Laplace transforms
 
5:01 PM
Honestly, it's easy. You remember how I showed how the solution for undamped SHO worked? Well the damped version is the same but you start with a different ansatz.
 
@JohnRennie or you do what normal people do and use Laplace transforms
Ansätze are a horrible way to do math if you want to be satisfied
 
user228700
@0ßelö7 I haven't learned that yet.
 
Luckily this is physics :-)
 
@JohnRennie Mathematical physics then
@Kaumudi.H $\mathcal L\{f\}(s)=\int_0^\infty e^{-st}f(t)\, dt$
 
user228700
::Magically understands everything:: HEY, thanks!
 
user228700
5:03 PM
In all seriousness, I do appreciate your help, even though it is a bit rushed and vague. I'm afraid it's time for me to head to bed now.
 
@Kaumudi.H Prove $\mathcal L\{df/dt\}(s)=s\mathcal L\{f\}(s)-f(0)$
 
@Kaumudi.H the Laplace transform is a very elegant approach, but honestly just using the ansatz will give you everything you need at your current level.
 
Using that you can solve all sorts of equations
 
user228700
Hmm.
 
user228700
We do have it this semester, I think.
 
5:04 PM
you turn differential equations into algebraic ones
 
Anyway, goodnight. See you tomorrow.
 
user228700
Anyhoo, I'll catch you all t'row :-) Byebye!
 
bye
 
5:16 PM
@0ßelö7 even nonlinear ones?
 
@lılostafa I said "all sorts" not "every kind"
 
5:54 PM
@BalarkaSen Sounds nice. I think I've heard the band name before "Oh Hiroshima"
There are a couple of dedicated post rock channels on youtube
 
 
3 hours later…
8:40 PM
 
8:50 PM
One of the really obnoxious things about relativity is that learning to state the things that are bothering you in a clear and unambiguous way is only $\epsilon$ short of resolving them for yourself, with the result that a relativity tags on site are a mire of poorly stated confusion.
 
9:00 PM
ccache is a blessing
 
9:19 PM
I don't really get why the Laplace transform works
I can follow the instructions I'm told but I've never had anyone really explain it nor realised independently. It just seems like voodoo to me
 
(gn8)
 
@Phase It's a kind of variable change
 
i get that much but I just dont get why it works
and how it manages to be relatively simple sounding, but so effectiev
*effective
 
9:37 PM
@Avantgarde pls explain cannibal corpse
who listens to this stuff lol
 
@Phase Do you get Fourier transform?
@BalarkaSen I don't like them either. Really bad vocal delivery if you ask me
 
Isnt a Fourier transform just the same thing but replacing s with iw?
 
Almost. Pretty similar
 
@Phase more precisely, Laplace transforms are the same thing as Fourier transforms but with a 90° rotation in the frequency domain's complex plane.
That makes the Laplace transform better at treating transient phenomena, (i.e. decaying exponentials) while the Fourier transform is more effective for long-term oscillations
 
If its a 90 degree rotation in a complex plane
 
9:41 PM
@Avantgarde there are way too many edgelordy bands on death metal which play extreme music just because they can imo
 
Does it make sense to ask how that's distinguished from a Laplace transform you then just multiply by i to rotate it?
 
@Phase yeah, it makes sense
though it's important to keep in mind that the differences in the domain of integration are really important
 
Nice, how IS it distinguished from that?
 
@Phase ^^ se above
but it's ultimately not that relevant to why it works
in that sense, both Fourier and Laplace work for the same reason
they are both transformations that take a function $f(t)$ as input, and attempt to return a 'fingerprint' as output
 
A fingerprint of frequency?
 
9:45 PM
no, a fingerprint as in a simplified description of your function
the idea being that the fingerprint will be simpler than the original, at least for a broad class of functions that you will use in practice, but it will still be complex enough that it has the breadth to capture all of the relevant variations
 
@BalarkaSen Yes. Unfortunately, they seem to be the most popular death metal band you can look up right now. They are .. quite bad lol
 
it's kinda like the scenario in hip hop
 
and, if it's complex enough, then you hope that the fingerprinting process will be injective, i.e. that the fingerprint will be unique
 
All i've really been asked to do so far is take Laplace transforms
could you give me [ideally the simplest] example of its use in solving ODEs?
 
@BalarkaSen You got it!
 
9:47 PM
@Phase hmmmm. Yeah, w.r.t. ODEs, the core property is that you build on the nice relationship between exponentials and derivatives to reduce differential operators to algebraic ones
 
@Balarka, have you been trying death metal? :P
 
so $d/dt$ becomes $-s$ or whatever
 
I was thinking a few days ago that rap and heavy metal music has this similarity that they are quite hard to get into. Neither of them are sonically the easiest music of the world for a beginner.
@Avantgarde nope lol
just stumbled upon that shit
 
So you transform a big ugly differential eqn into an easily-solvable algebraic one
and then you hope like hell that you'll be able to revert the transformation
 
What signs do you look for
for when it'll be useful
like with int by parts you look for an expression that one part of easily differentiates to something trivial
what's the equivalent for spotting when to use the laplace transform?
 
9:49 PM
if there's any functions involved, you want to know their transforms
either that they've been tabulated, or that you can calculate them explicitly
with the amount of work required for the latter giving you an indication of the usefulness of the method
 
So basically just learn the rudimentary transforms, and try to recognise chances to use them?
 
@Phase a bit, yeah
 
Sorry to bother you but one last request
Could you forward me to or explain a simple example of solving an ODE with this method? It would just help concrete it
 
keep in mind that once ODEs become non-obvious to solve, the different methods tend to be try-if-it-works, and then if it works then cool, if it doesn't then try the next tool in the toolbox
and there's often no guarantee that a given method will work
or even that there is a method that will work
@Phase not off the top of my head.
 
Ok fair enough, ty anyway for the help :^ )
 
9:53 PM
is there an ODE textbook you're already using? if so, that's probably the best first place to look
 
I'm not sure why rap is that hard for some people to get into. I quite like rap, not the Kanye West, commercial kind, but underground stuff. Metal (not heavy metal, which is a subgenre) is surely, yeah, difficult to get into. Death and black are arguably the hardest, though there are even more 'noisy' and more underground kinds like drone and noise.
Have a look at this chart of rankings of rappers based on their vocabulary. The most popular ones are at the bottom - https://pudding.cool/2017/02/vocabulary/index.html
 
Yeah.. Only problem is I'm not gonna be able to get at it until a week or so ahead
Oh yeah @0ßelö7 I got into next year
@EmilioPisanty ty for the help, I'm gonna head to bed now. GN all
 
@Phase one last thing, with respect to Laplace vs Fourier, it often helps if you have a physical understanding of whether your problem describes a transient phenomenon or an ongoing oscillation
 
Also Avantgarde Death grips mashups are real woke shit
 
@Phase 'night
 
9:54 PM
Like a waveform vs exponential?
only time I've used Fourier has been to go from position space to momentum
anyhoo NN
 
@Phase You like DG? I tried them a bit and they're .. just fine. A bit too experimental lol. I prefer Dälek over DG
 
@Avantgarde are you sure your username is correct? =P
 
@Avantgarde I dunno, coming from a folk/rock background, the style in rap is hard to appreciate for me, personally. Well, underground, yes, one of the reasons I like abstract hip hop is it incorporates more sounds. (I'd have to check out Dalek at some point though)
looooooool @EmilioPisanty
I quite like Exmillitary, it's good.
 
@EmilioPisanty What do you mean?
 
Oh damn I have heard of Aesop Rock
 
9:59 PM
@BalarkaSen Yeah I understand that. I showed you Dälek the other day
 
I was quite impressed by a song of his that I listened to; is he good?
 
yeah he's very good
But yeah, only if you like and appreciate rapping, playing with words, etc
 
gotcha
 
Lol I remember the day when Hotline Bling came out. Everyone went crazy
 
@Phase why wouldn't you?
 
10:04 PM
@BalarkaSen So if you like folk/rock, you would've liked Creedence Clearwater Revival?
 
@Avantgarde meh
Actually, now that I think about it, I like rap
This for example
 
lmao
@BalarkaSen ...
 
WAKID
 
@Balarla Jethro Tull?
'Balarla' lol
 
@BalarkaSen The place to make a connection between folk and rap is through protest music. The genre's share a lot of anger if you look in the right places. That's what I noticed about (dating myself here) Public Enemy when guys in my college dorm were playing them.
 
10:08 PM
Oh I have to listen to Public Enemy sometime
 
@Avantgarde Oh yeah they're pretty good
@dmckee Yeah that'd make sense
I think there's a lot of historical and cultural significance to rap; I obviously don't appreciate it because I am not in the part of the world where it's developed :P
I can just try to understand/appreciate the sonics
 
Likewise
Oh I've never shared this with you? @Balarka
Psychedelic folky/jazzy rock
 
10:30 PM
@Avantgarde Haha, this is nice!
Interesting style
 
Yep, they make nice music. Some members have worked in other metal bands, actually.
^At 4:33 the best part
 
Panama is my drain.
@Avantgarde Do you like Irish ballads
 
Nope. you got something?
 
Don't think I've ever heard one.
@BalarkaSen You've got interesting taste there
 
10:40 PM
100% Irish
 
You like poems and such?
 
Do you want a serious answer or a nonserious answer
The thing I linked you is a big Joycean prank
 
Serious. Though I think I already know the answer
 
Yeah I do
 
Sorry I don't have any poems to share :P
 
10:42 PM
My profile has two excerpts of poetries written on it, one of them being probably my favorite
 
I see that
 
you like songs, so i suppose you should read sound poems
try Zang Tumb Tumb
 
What is that?
Interesting. I've never heard of sound poetry
alright I gotta head out. see you later
 
it's an avant garde piece of literature that started a lot of modernist movements
see ya
its mostly a prank tho lol
 
just a prank bro
 
10:54 PM
pls don't reference the ravioli ravioli meme
it's disgusting
 
@BalarkaSen what?
your memeology is too advanced
 
ugh, filthy frank
I really dislike and avoid him
that's a meme for kids
 

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