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- @H@1The Infinate Picture Theory
- @A@3By Smiley
- @FHcitylight14
- @FAcolossal08
- @FMpearl08
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- 1During my maths lessons I do have a tendancy to get bored and stop listening
- 1to the teacher (if you do A-levels then you will know what I mean) and I
- 1often talk to my friend Tim about other things.
- 1One of the sujects we often talk about is the number ininity, oh-oh I can
- 1hear people switching this article off already but I promise you it is quite
- 1interesting.
- 1
- 1Anyway after discussing infinity for a while and my idea of a new type of
- 1number system we talked about computer pictures , hurrah onto computery
- 1things. What we were considering was how many actual images could be put onto
- 1a computer screen. We obviously thought that it was finite, but then we
- 1thought again, and again. In the end we came up with a paradox (no, not the
- 1cracking group but a statement that contradicts itself) it is like this :-
- 1
- 1 (This next bit isnt exactly how it went by the way)
- 1
- 1 ME :Yeh but isn`t it true that in theory a screen can display a visual
- 1 image of any scene in the universe?
- 1 TIM:Yeh but if the universe is infinate you must be able to display an
- 1 infinate amount of screen, it just isnt possible??
- 1 ME :Then the universe must contain an infinate amount of images/scenes
- 1 that look exactly the same. So somewhere somebody else is thinking
- 1 this!!
- 1 TIM:OOh, thats quite scary that is. Forget that for a minute just how
- 1 many images can a screen display?
- 1
- 1At this point we tried to work it out and Tim came up with the formula that:-
- 1 The number of pictures a screen can show is :-
- 1
- 1 ---------------------------------------------------
- 1 The number of colors to the power of the resolution
- 1 ---------------------------------------------------
- 1
- 1i.e. a 5*5 screen in 2 colors can have a total of 3,355,4432 and thats
- 1 only on that tiny screen!!!
- 1
- 1If you dont believe me look at this little table for a 2*2*2 screen:-
- 1
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | | | | | | | x | x | |
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | x | | | | | | x | | x |
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | | x | | | | | | x | x |
- 1 ----------------- ----------------- x = black (or any color)
- 1 | | | x | | | x | x | x | | empty = white (or any color)
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | | | | x | | x | x | | x |
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | x | x | | | | x | | x | x |
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | x | | x | | | | x | x | x |
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1 | x | | | x | | x | x | x | x |
- 1 ----------------- -----------------
- 1
- 1 This shows that on a two by two resolution screen with 2 colors their are
- 1 16 possible combinations which is :-
- 1 2 ^ (2*2) = 16
- 1
- 1Using this method sometime in the future it could be argued that with a very,
- 1vey,very fast computer with an exceedingly large resolution you could see
- 1evrything that has happened, is hapening and is going to happen in the
- 1universe. The only downside to this is that you would also see things that
- 1will never happen!
- 1
- 1If anybody else who does maths or is interested in this reads this I would
- 1really like a reply (through the magazine) because although I am pretty sure
- 1that I am correct in my thinking, my maths is not that hot and I could have
- 1made some whopping great mistake that I just havent noticed.
- 1
- 1Even if I am wrong it is damned more interesting than the shitty integration
- 1or crap polynomials that we were doing in lesson!
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