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Re: Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

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Post by andrelaszlo » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

Tupper, Jeff. "Reliable two-dimensional graphing methods for mathematical formulae with two free variables." Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM, 2001.

http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/papers/jtupper_SIGGRAPH2001.pdf

Re: Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

#12

Post by alexdowad » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 3:03 PM UTC

How did "Tupper" figure this formula out??? Brute force?

Re: Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

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Post by andrelaszlo » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 4:08 PM UTC

alexdowad wrote: post #12

How did "Tupper" figure this formula out??? Brute force?

Nope!

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