Maths time /sci/
1
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-26 20:22
People should post more maths.
Find a number k such that n^4 + k is composite for all integer n.
2
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-26 22:17
14
3
Name:
4tran
2008-02-27 0:24
>>2
Nice.
How do you show it when n is divisible by 15?
4
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-27 9:15
>>2
Well found sir, but you forgot your proof
5
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-27 11:10
>>4
That wasn't the question.
6
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 9:29
>>5
It's a maths question, not a physics question, prove your shit.
7
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 10:25
Well for starters, if n^4 + k is not even, then there is a chance that it might be a prime.
Clearly, we have to prove that n^4 + k is *not* prime.
That is rather easy to achieve, since n^4 is always even.
Therefore, n^4 + k where k is even shall do.
14 is even
8
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 10:38
That is rather easy to achieve, since n^4 is always even.
Lol.
9
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 12:16
>>7
What? Why choose 14, why not 2. n^4 is not always prime.
You're an idiot.
10
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 12:17
>>9
n^4 is not always even, what I meant.
The other is also true, but rather irrelevant.
11
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 12:32
>>9,10
both incorrect.
1. x^4 is x^2 * x^2.
2. x^2 is always even.
3. let y = x^2
4. then x^2 * x^2 = y^2
5. see 3
QED
12
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 12:46
>>7- >>11 I can't tell who's trolling who anymore
13
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 13:24
>>9
n^4 is never a prime.
14
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 14:38
>>13
I know, read
>>10, also the statement "n^4 is not always prime" is still true. I meant even though
15
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 14:39
>>14
Not always prime implies it's at least once a prime.
So it's false.
16
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-28 16:14
>>11
2. x^2 is always even.
I can understand making that mistake once, if you're drunk, but twice? Exponentiation is not multiplication.
n % 2 = n^4 % 2
ALWAYS
>>15
You're a fucking idiot. lrn2logic.
17
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-29 0:49
Exponentiation is not multiplication.
...
18
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-29 1:23
>>17
He meant the two don't behave the same. e.g. while x*2 is always even, x^2 is not (so long as x is an integer).
19
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-29 9:09
>>18
e.g. while x*2 is always even,
Fail.
x=0
20
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-29 9:12
>>19
I think he means that x belongs in N
21
Name:
dra nada
2008-02-29 12:43
n^4 is never a prime.
let x = n^4 = nnnn -> n|x, nn|x, etc
i call troll
22
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-29 14:04
>>15
Er, "not always" doesn't imply "is once".
Maybe linguistically, but strictly logically, no.
23
Name:
Anonymous
2008-02-29 14:12
24
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-01 5:53
>>23
whatever you say faggot, what about x=0.5??
Is that even too?
25
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-01 10:17
>>24
Good thing we're talking about
integers then, isn't it?
26
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-01 20:25
>>25
0.5 is an integer you fucking faggot.
27
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-01 21:44
>>26
Bzzzt, wrong. Go back to failschool.
28
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-02 8:07
>>27
Uh, no. 1 is an integer, 2 is an integer, integers are closed under field operations. Hence 0.5 is an integer.
29
Name:
4tran
2008-03-02 8:31
>>28
The integers are NOT closed under field operations because they do not form a field. They are a group under addition, but that is not sufficient for defining a field. You're thinking of the rationals.
30
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-02 10:21
I love this thread
31
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-02 12:03
>>29
You're thinking of the reals. Get back to taking limits cunt.
32
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-02 12:04
>>29
You're so obviously being trolled.
33
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-02 12:59
>>24
>>26
>>28
Same faggot, and we have been trolled constantly.
34
Name:
mol. bio. major
2008-03-03 3:12
So this is what math is like
still I'd rather have the hot girls in biology
35
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-03 7:18
>>34
And it's impossible to get the hot biology girls if you're not doing biology.
36
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-03 12:01
>>34
Because you get all the hot girls in your class when you go to biology.
37
Name:
Anonymous
2008-03-03 14:16
my frends and i mutual mastrb8 in maths
just as good
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