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Interesting post.
Is this a close summary to what you are saying?
1. Similar mathematical values often arise while calculating values in two completely different realms of study
2. Human brains tend to try to find the significance of why similar values seem to arise in two completely different realms of study.
3. There is no likely significance, but most probably just coincidence.
From this, it is possible you are making yet another conjecture. ??
There is no GUT (Global Unification Theory).
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raddevus wrote: Is this a close summary to what you are saying? Correct, there is no significance to the Egyptian measurements. It's just crackpot stuff. Our modern meter is tangentially related to the Egyptian royal cubit and that's why crackpots are attracted to those mysteries.
I am apparently not immune and it took me a while to figure out why those numbers were popping up in ancient Egypt.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I had something similar happen with abrahamic scripture, particularly the torah (and the OT in the bible).
I'm not religious, but I'm fascinated with it.
There are some amazing things in there about how we're "programmed" if you know where to look. And it floored me when I figured out that it was ancient sociology at least as much as religion.
It threw me for months, how some bronze age folks would be able to do broad predictions like Ezekiel 16 or the redeemer archetype in Isaiah 53. things based on past pattern, until I realized how they did it.
Without getting into all of it, because it would be long, basically they exploited (whether they knew it or not) evolutionary-like adaption of folk tales of human behavior over generations using oral history, wherein useful/apropos stories would get repeated and adapted to the situation and the others die out. Over enough generations, patterns emerge, and those patterns help predict or describe us.
Weird, but not supernatural. Just clever.
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modified 4-Aug-20 12:03pm.
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Hmmm,
Sounds like you are describing something like the seven basic plots[^].
My previous post at the top of this thread fits a variant of Voyage and Return: The protagonist discovers something strange and, after overcoming the problem, returns with experience.
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I mean, that's an element of it, as they are essentially folk tales. But what they convey is the fascinating. The actual story arcs themselves are useful, as they predict/describe behavior - but the real meat is in its use of allegory to enable humans to engage in higher level pattern matching. It's a manual in part, to show you how to do that, and it's also full of existing patterns, that sometimes become a sort composition. It takes study and reflection to do it. It's very very deep and layered. The talmudic commentary on verse can be very helpful to unravel some of what these stories tell the reader.
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Yes, that number arising is pure coincidence and I find it rather nonsensical to make anything of it. The thing is you are mixing a ratio and an absolute measure and when the units of meters are used the number is interesting. For a civilization that uses feet and inches there would be no significance what so ever. They will find the cubit to be 20.6 inches and think, "oh, what ever. That seems rather random." The Egyptians didn't have the metric system so how would that number of meters been of any significance?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Yes, that number arising is pure coincidence Well, actually it's not really coincidence that the ratio of the Egyptian cubit is 0.52 of a meter. However there is nothing mysterious or special about it. I am not sure I conveyed what I am talking about in a clear way.
Here is an absolute fact:
If I gave you only a rope and a rock and asked you to divide the day using only those materials into 24 hours, 1440 minutes and 86400 seconds. When you completed the task your rope would be approximately 1 meter long. The arc of your pendulum would cover ~0.52 of the meter when swinging.
That's all, nothing mysterious.
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private readonly bool _mUseQuoteValue
Original post[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Maybe this should be the proper naming:
const bool _alwaysWrong= true
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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99 Bottles of Beer | Language Malbolge[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I've heard of it. I think the syntax is too verbose.
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So, when will we see a malbolge code generator article?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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That would be evil
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Yes?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Found this gem in our codebase...
public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
public static DateTime EndOfMonth(this DateTime dt)
{
return dt.Date.AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1);
}
}
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ah.
I can see a problem developing there. I assume he tested it on the first of the month, and it worked fine?
Here is my stab at it:
public static DateTime LastOfMonth(this DateTime dt)
{
int daysInMonth = DateTime.DaysInMonth(dt.Year, dt.Month);
return dt.FirstOfMonth().AddDays(daysInMonth - 1).AtMidnight();
} As seen before: DateTime Extensions to Make Some Simple Tasks a Little More Readable[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Actually, he had unit tests in place, but all the dates tested were on the first day of the month.
My fix was:
return new DateTime(dt.Year, dt.Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1);
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
modified 15-Jun-20 9:14am.
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I guess it's true for tests as well: GIGO ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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And why not simply use DateTime.DaysInMonth ?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Because the programmer wanted the attention of being presented here?
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Makes sense
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Rob Grainger wrote: return new DateTime(dt.Year, dt.Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1);
This is exactly my EndOfMonth extension function in dotNet.
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This gets you the last *date* of the month, but if you’re actually looking for the “end” of the month and don’t want fencepost errors, you’d want the first of the next month (with no time component) and then use a strict less-than in your comparisons.
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