wonderings

atm puzzle

somebody on reddit posted the impossible counterexample of distinguishing {1,1,1} and {1,2}. so i guess im not getting into the next martin gardner book

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2+4=2*3=6
2*4=2^3=8
2^4=2^^3=16
2^^4=2^^^3=256
...

???

im sure there's a very simple explanation behind this but im far too tired to figure it out

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why do europeans and middle easterns and indians some africans have pointy noises while asians and other africans have flat round ones and why do native americans have pointy noses when they come from asians who have round ones

why do mammals have five toefingers per paw

why do humans laugh and why do we bare our teeth to show nonaggression

could i still sit down if i had a tail

what color were dinosaurs

why do humans assign human attributes, particularly infantile ones, to animals we should be killing and eating? are we really just that social

for that matter, are nonsocial animals capable of feeling empathy/wanting to help somebody that is not them or maybe not even in their species

why is it really easy to fall asleep sometimes and really hard others even when im just as tired

why are plants green instead of black

is oxygen really the best gas for life to live on

we're really lucky that the universal solvent just so happened to be the most likely product of some of the most common elements in the universe

how come gravity doesn't reduce entropy? are gravitational waves kinda like heat is to electromagnetism? would gravity reduce entropy if it was just newtonian instead of gr?

how come when youre really tired and about to fall asleep all of a sudden everything completely loses its sense of scale and everything seems really small and really big and skinny and fat all at once

why don't more people ask more questions there are so many good ones to ask

edit: why doesn't the [noparse]

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[/noparse] tag need a closing tag