Euler's Partition Function Theory Finished 117

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 21, 2011 @05:29PM from the that-was-quick dept.

universegeek writes "Mathematician Ken Ono, from Emory, has solved a 250-year-old problem: how to exactly and explicitly generate partition numbers. Ono and colleagues were able to finally do this by realizing that the pattern of partition numbers is fractal (PDF). This pattern allowed them to find a finite, algebraic formula, which is like striking oil in mathematics."

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Announced for November 2011 231

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:10AM from the ugly-things-biting-me dept.

Bethesda took advantage of the Video Game Awards this weekend to announce the fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls series, titled Skyrim. The game is planned for November 2011, and a teaser trailer has been posted on the Elder Scrolls website. Details are sparse, though the game will apparently run on an "all-new" engine.

Comment corollary (Score 1) 1193

by Anon1072 on Thursday October 21, 2010 @04:32PM (#33979162) Attached to: How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes

1st grade logic corollary: .

Your learned what a "corollary" was in first grade?

Comment Re:Only 16 weeks? (Score 2, Insightful) 1155

by Anon1072 on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @10:48PM (#33803396) Attached to: British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password

Most people's understanding of how a computer works is essentially, "by magic." By the time you finished explaining this setup, they would already have concluded you are either a terrorist or some kind of evil wizard. Probably both.

Submission + - Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by rdnetto on Friday July 02, 2010 @09:02AM

rdnetto writes: After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.

Comment Re:God I love these "You must run xxx OS" edicts (Score 1) 1217

by Anon1072 on Friday June 11, 2010 @06:10PM (#32543110) Attached to: MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks

sounds like she didn't have much choice. Thanks a lot dad..

Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 169

by Anon1072 on Thursday June 10, 2010 @06:23PM (#32529230) Attached to: Smart Underwear Designed For Military

Agree, "Epic Recovery" should be a new /. achievement.

Comment Re:Warning, noobish question ahead. (Score 1) 205

by Anon1072 on Monday June 07, 2010 @12:00PM (#32484758) Attached to: Is Cyberwarfare Fiction?

Note: I am no expert - I just expressed my opinion, which happens to contain a lot of technical assumptions

I generally assume this when reading a comment on a blog, but thanks for the heads up.

Comment Re:Who determines what your job will be? (Score 1) 1138

by Anon1072 on Friday May 14, 2010 @06:13PM (#32213930) Attached to: Too Many College Graduates?

You should've gone to H & R Block

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 586

by Anon1072 on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @03:48PM (#31676082) Attached to: Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass

Only if they're south of you.

Comment Re:You get what you pay for. (Score 1) 812

by Anon1072 on Sunday August 23, 2009 @12:31AM (#29160805) Attached to: IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US

"the United States relies on representative democracy, but its system of government is much more complex than that. It is not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law" Representative Democracy

So I guess you got all upset for nothing.

Comment Re:That any government attempt to control... (Score 1) 425

by Anon1072 on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @05:57PM (#28550507) Attached to: What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System

Too much SCIENCE!(tm) supports the conclusion that CO2 insulates and raises temperature of an atmosphere to ignore.

fixed!

Comment Re:clarification (Score 5, Funny) 331

by Anon1072 on Thursday June 25, 2009 @09:32PM (#28476007) Attached to: Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased

I'm not sure how swedish law works

That's ok. Swedish judges aren't sure either

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 163

by Anon1072 on Friday June 05, 2009 @12:11PM (#28223767) Attached to: Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation

I think the deal with Reed is more about... just... being outside the box, man. Once you get out of that box, you're just... you can see the box. And the box doesn't control you anymore, man.

Comment Re:Wikipedia motto (Score 1) 391

by Anon1072 on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @09:24PM (#27854279) Attached to: Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press

+1, Italics!