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Moigno "calculate last digit of pi" stuff dumb, calculating pi to arbitrary precision isn't even an interesting problem, figure out alternate big math project they are trying to calculate; characterization of finite groups? No, still too easy. Something that could occupy living math for years but still potentially solvable | Moigno "calculate last digit of pi" stuff dumb, calculating pi to arbitrary precision isn't even an interesting problem, figure out alternate big math project they are trying to calculate; characterization of finite groups? No, still too easy. Something that could occupy living math for years but still potentially solvable | ||
From edison predictions of 100 years in the future in 1911: superthin nickel-sheeted books w/ tens of thousands of pages in a single volume | |||
==Possible stuff to reference or mine== | |||
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-heavenly-sounds-of-the-glass-armonica | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory | |||
==Specific setting notes== | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_soul | |||
Revision as of 16:44, 8 May 2011
Look into this, use this in re: new Mercykiller reforms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania Economic bubbles can exist in pre-Renaissance times, possibly incorporate into planar stuff?
Moigno "calculate last digit of pi" stuff dumb, calculating pi to arbitrary precision isn't even an interesting problem, figure out alternate big math project they are trying to calculate; characterization of finite groups? No, still too easy. Something that could occupy living math for years but still potentially solvable
From edison predictions of 100 years in the future in 1911: superthin nickel-sheeted books w/ tens of thousands of pages in a single volume
Possible stuff to reference or mine
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-heavenly-sounds-of-the-glass-armonica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
