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Title: Park idea
Post by: RadicalOne on November 11, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
I got an idea for a series of parks after seeing a sign posted by the street somewhere.
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How is the idea?

PS
A bonus to anyone who recognizes the second formula WITHOUT looking it up.(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_Smiley.png&hash=114c5818bedefab7ecadce8309e9d18b85634b83)
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: Girafe on November 11, 2010, 09:09:59 AM
Why not, something interesting

I prefer the formule (1+5^1/2)/2 = 1.618 more appropriate for architecture  ;)

Anyway wait to see what it could be in the game, try different lights than this flashy green  ()stsfd()
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: jp on November 11, 2010, 10:06:42 AM
the second one is the dilation of time, based on Einstein's theory of special relativity. I just looked it up to see what it is called in english because we learned it at school in french :-[ i didn't cheat :P
interesting idea for a sign :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: RadicalOne on November 11, 2010, 10:41:02 AM
I would do Schrodinger's equation, but the characters like Psi would make it impossible.

PS
I did three more - universal gravitation, an integral (calculus) expression, and an equilibrium constant for the ionization of Acetic acid.
These are the formulae: (Models not yet complete)
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Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: zero7 on November 11, 2010, 12:15:29 PM
This is an interesting idea.  Maybe the centrepiece of the 'maths' park could be a pool or sculpture based on the Fibonacci series ...  :)
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: Lowkee33 on November 11, 2010, 12:48:35 PM
Neat Stuff.  My defunct mayor diary was going to incorporate some historic equations/diagrams.  My first mayor was named Euclid, and he went for many walks.  As time went by people were going to discover a model that he did of how to bisect an angle.  Oh well...

I think you should have general integration rules instead of a definite integral.
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: Ciuu96 on November 11, 2010, 01:23:41 PM
As simplicity is beauty, at least in mathematics, I would propose something very simple, but still very important:

a2 + b2 = c2

Something like a right triangle or this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pythagorean.svg) could be added to make this look very neat and beautiful.
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: RadicalOne on November 11, 2010, 04:56:17 PM
Quote from: zero7 on November 11, 2010, 12:15:29 PM
This is an interesting idea.  Maybe the centrepiece of the 'maths' park could be a pool or sculpture based on the Fibonacci series ...  :)
I LOVE that idea. Or perhaps something founded on Pascal's triangle?(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_WideEyed.png&hash=85e9f0ac2fb734a35d68a50c1669150b30932b81)
Just one problem - how would I do that? I am an engineer, not a mathematician.

QuoteI think you should have general integration rules instead of a definite integral.
For that function, for polynomials in general, or something else?

QuoteAs simplicity is beauty, at least in mathematics, I would propose something very simple, but still very important:
a2 + b2 = c2
I like that idea...with one modification. Pythagoras' theorem is incomplete, as it is restricted to only right triangles. We need the correction factor of -abcosθ, thus making it what is commonly called the "cosine law".

EDIT: Oh, wait. Greek letters would be impossible to model. Damn. The root of the sum of the squares it is.(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_Wink_tonguefix2.png&hash=82d835c76e7c2a5b574ca518200869b810b82372)

Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: Lowkee33 on November 11, 2010, 05:20:06 PM
QuoteFor that function, for polynomials in general, or something else?

A power rule would be enough, but maybe you could help me with homework if you threw some "u" substitutions and trigonometric functions in there :).  I just mean to say that variables are cooler than integers.
Title: Re: Park idea
Post by: RadicalOne on November 11, 2010, 08:03:29 PM
Quote from: Lowkee33 on November 11, 2010, 05:20:06 PM
A power rule would be enough, but maybe you could help me with homework if you threw some "u" substitutions and trigonometric functions in there :).
Well, I am not doing your homework for you - (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_Smiley.png%3Ft%3D1260054264&hash=8987390fce46d41a62a62f0fdf7fda5a66121449) - but sure, some trig might be fun. Arctan of secant of hyperbolic sine?(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_Laugh.png%3Ft%3D1260054264&hash=f5c628647cb1c02e46615784f845351192df1985)

Hey, while we are at it; A limit of a Riemann sum? Quantum electrodynamics? Static Equilibrium? Wavelength & diffraction calculations? An inverse of a 6x6 matrix? Orbital calculations of comet 245-23-177? (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_ROFL.png&hash=3070415ce5e950115c00c662a12bb83d22f2d187)

EDIT:
The integral is a whopping 12 tiles long!