Talk:2861: X Value
transcript and short explanation added someone, i guess(talk i guess|le edit list) 18:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Is there an easter egg here? Is 4.1083 a significant constant in some field? 172.71.154.91 19:00, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- Dunno...but when I Googled it, it came up with a picture of a motorcycle I used to own - same vintage, same colour, same non-original aftermarket panniers - which was a little strange. Anybody else return any results centred around long-since-departed vehicles?
- Or not? Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 19:31, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- Googling for it showed me... a picture of this very xkcd. It's recursive? Ralfoide (talk) 20:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
https://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/mathemuffel-erleichtert-wert-von-x-ein.html 172.68.110.148 20:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- This is in german, could you maybe give a translation at least? someone, i guess(talk i guess|le edit list) 20:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
The "narrowing down" of n might be a reference to a combinatorics problem Ron Graham was solving, managing to narrow down the dimensions of the hypercube with a certain property to be more than 6 and less than... Well, Graham's Number. 172.71.122.209 22:12, 29 November 2023 (UTC)jamieth
- Even that is accomplishment. Really, narrowing number down from infinite set to finite one is the biggest narrowing you can do. -- Hkmaly (talk) 23:29, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
"In string theory the number of flux vacua is commonly thought to be roughly 10^500,[4] but could be 10^272,000[5] or higher." -- String theory landscape#Compactified Calabi–Yau manifolds Abclop99 (talk) 22:23, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
As of today, the value of Twitter (which some may call X for unknown reasons) is of 41.09 Billion USD. This might be the joke? 162.158.129.16 22:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
The variable 'n' is often used in computer programs to be a counter for some activity that is repeated 'n' times. 'n' may be user input or it might be a calculated value like the number of items in a list. So the code would be something like, for the integer 'i' starting at 1 and iterating up to 'n' number of times in whatever computer language is being used. Rtanenbaum (talk) 03:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
