Why 42?

2007-04-05T02:13:00.000-07:00

The answer to the ultimate question, i.e " life, universe and everything else" is forty two! But then, surely, it is not entirely arbitrary that the random number was chosen so randomly. It's apparent meaninglessness was because of the human inability to understand the subtleness involved in the number.
Long after this was understand by the Hungarian super brain, Paul E Erdos, he did try to evolve a proof for his mortal accompaniments to comprehend. His idea was to aloof himself from explaining such a complicated procedure to minds much less talented than his. As this was the reason, he did try to make his point clear centuries after his existence.
He introduced the idea( a notion till then considered impossible) of a network in those who did spend their time, penetrating into the land of the unknown , I mean, Research! Yes, I'm talking about the Erdos Number of any researcher in the field of computer science and math..

Well, a similar idea follows in social networks. Consider that anyone in the world knows you at least six people far away. If you are a person far away from Etnos, it means you know Etnos personally. For the time being, lets consider that you know Etnos means, Etnos knows you. If you are two people far away from Xia, it means, you know a person who knows Xia and you don't know Xia. And so on until the sixth person. The six degrees of separation, hypothesis states that every one in the world is at most six people away from each other. Equivalent to saying that all mathematicians have Erdos number with in six. Well, this is as logically equivalent to saying , you can pass a letter to Mr.Bush ,say, if you sent it across at most six people. People use this heuristics in most of their analysis of family trees etc. A job, really famous, is the Royal Office of British Genealogy, where they consider that all royalty of most European nations related by at most 3 families, i.e three linkages which change blood.
Coming back to six degrees of separation, if each person on an average knows psi people. Consider that, people he knows at the second level will be psi² and at the sixth level will be psi⁶ and that means we should cover the total number of people in the earth, which is six billion by summing a Geometric Progression from psi⁶ to psi⁶. On making appropriate calculations and giving the right equations, we end up with psi = 42!!!

So.. now you know whats the motive behind the answer!

P.S with regards to Sidderich Shanovsky, a CSEmician from the Ilansky offe Instiutovick Technikov (Иланский институт технологии), and yes, they trust none until they virus scan.

Turtles all the way down.....

2007-03-28T22:53:00.000-07:00

It is after all, the beginning. Rather unremarkable, but then, it has begun. Blogging has become the order of the day. The highest embodiment of democracy and it's egalitarian virtues, publishing one's thoughts has become a matter of triviality. None the less, the thoughts are not always as trivial.

Firstly, a matter of policy, for those who were unoccupied with better endeavors and chose to visit this new addition to the already crowded spots on this emporium of blogs, it becomes my undue responsibility to introduce the intellect whose creations swallows so much of your entirely unused time.
An IITian, a most insignificant species on this vulnerable rock ranking third from the sun. Mathematics and Carnatic music form the passions of this gory creature of whom you will probably get to know more about soon. The entity fancies losing elections as a mighty past time, especially if it means shopkeeping as the ulterior alternative, unfortunate enough to endure two centuries of pain undergone by many a jobless over-creative individual who took to making new machines as his daily post-gardening ritual. For the majority of the blogreader who failed to get the line above, I am lamenting on my grand fortune of being chosen to be trained a Mechanical Engineer from one of the most prestigious world class Engineering Institutions.

Finally, an ardent fan of Wodehouse and Douglas Adams, simply fascinated by the intricate plots and the inherent complications which are absolutely not necessary for the story and yet makes enjoyable reading. I would like to make
believe that I am well versed with some sacred Hindu texts. This initial article with all the fervour that the first time always has, will demonstrate that. Well, the rig veda gives a humble explanation for the existence of the universe, it's beginning. The earth, our world, happens to be on an elephant which stands on a turtle. The turtle stands on what? Well, as it happened then, I would rather prefer a change of topic- you must be getting bored!
This is the end of the beginning. Once more, it has begun ( ahem.. Trumpets?)

Equivocations of the automagically precise.

Why 42?

Turtles all the way down.....