Re: Ringworld (was Re: Let me simplify it for you...)

mike weber <fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There probably are others, but i don't even use that one; i seldom
hit questions i can't find some answer - or at least a clue to -
otherwise.

Math questions are especially difficult to Google for answers to, as
there are so many very different ways to phrase the same question.
And since Google doesn't search well on symbols rather than on words.

If I can generate a real number to a sufficient number of places,
there are a couple of specialized search engines I can use. Or if I
can generate a series of integers, I can look it up on Sloane's search
engine for numerical sequences. For instance when I was exploring
the highest number I could get with a triangle of distinct positive
integers in which each number is the sum of the two beneath it, for
various size triangles, once I had worked out the terms for the first
few sizes of triangles, I plugged them into Sloane's site, and it gave
me several more terms and more information about that problem and its
solutions.

It's a lot more work than someone using an unfamiliar term, say,
"Bidey-In." It's a work of seconds to Google that and find out
what it means.
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