Self Referential Formula in Math (2011)

Author: surround

Score: 32

Comments: 4

Date: 2020-11-04 13:16:44

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haecceity wrote at 2020-11-04 22:12:45:

What's self referential about it? The huge number encodes the image that the equation plots it. The plotted image is another representation of the image and the huge number. It only takes two sentences to explain but the author writes on and on about useless stuff rather than what it actually is.

freshbob wrote at 2020-11-04 22:36:29:

The point is that the image it draws contains the formula itself in readable text.

I agree that the presentation lacks a clear exposition of the author's goal --- at least for people unfamiliar with the rest of his blog, I presume.

I think it would be far more interesting how to actually construct this formula than just presenting the formula itself, though...

neolog wrote at 2020-11-05 09:57:06:

> The huge number encodes the image that the equation plots it.

I can't parse this.

jeremysalwen wrote at 2020-11-04 21:03:03:

A mathematical quine!