Part 1 gave us the largest answer, Vicuna gives us the smallest. As a reminder, the correct answer is:
The first time I tested Vicuna, it said the following.
Part 1 gave us the largest answer, Vicuna gives us the smallest. As a reminder, the correct answer is:
The first time I tested Vicuna, it said the following.
I have been testing assorted so-called Artificial Intelligence Large Language models on their ability to do a relatively simple calculation. I ask, “Calculate πφ/e where φ is the golden ratio.”
You can paste “π*φ/e” into Google’s search box (it needs the * to indicate multiplication and not Greek text), and it will tell you the answer, 1.87000613369.
Wolfram Alpha does it more precisely, as shown:
The official results map from the IEC is at best confusing and at worst, deliberately misleading.
Here is the overview map of the Western Cape. The circled areas are 100% complete, but the detailed view is very different to the overview. Starting top left, moving counter-clockwise.
Witzengerg:
While poking around Giza, I stumbled on this approximation for the inverse of the fine structure constant. It’s not as good as my previous one, but since it relies on cubit -> metre conversion, it qualifies as “interesting.”
It’s just 100φ² ₢, expressed as metres, So we just multiply that by π/6, and voila!
137.0799391
Which according to Wolfram Alpha,
100 / (100φ²π/6) / (fine structure constant)
is 99.9679457% accurate …
Well, according to the current known value, which is a moving target.
The fine structure constant is described as one of the most fundamental physical constants. I don’t pretend to understand anything about it apart from its value, which is close to 1/137. We’ve only been using it for around 100 years.
So the fact that the Khafre pyramid uses 137 as a size multiplier (base is 3 x 137, height is 2 x 137) is annoying, especially since the Khufu pyramid references the speed of light in metres per second, twice. The ancient Egyptians are not supposed to know those things.
Since the fine structure constant itself is a messy decimal number (0.0072973525693…) it is usually referenced via its inverse, as 1/137, which provides a reasonable approximation.
However there have been attempts to find a better approximation, and Scott Onstott has a page with some approximations. Which naturally was a challenge I could not resist….
So I saw that one of the better ones was based on 137²+π²…. and since the royal cubit is π/6, and I have lots of approximations for that, it was simply a matter of finding the right one that produced a better result. That turned out to be based on the plastic number… so without further fanfare, here we are:
\frac{1}{\alpha} \approx \sqrt{{137^{2} + (\frac{\rho^{9}}{4}})^{2}}
The WolframAlpha version of the formula is √(137² + ((plastic number^9)/4)²), which produces
137.0359992970725102075551820936909082242952278384186387671
We can check the percentage accuracy as well:
100/137.0359992970725102075551820936909082242952278384186387671 / (fine structure constant)
produces 99.9999998% accurate. Not bad.
[Note: I need to end the equations with a period to persuade WordPress/Latex to put sane spacing between lines.
Euler’s famous equation e^{iπ} + 1 = 0 is usually considered the “most beautiful” in mathematics.
We could also write it in the so-called “ugly” format as e^{iπ} = -1.
Now we know that for the golden ratio φ,
{1 \over {φ}} - φ = -1.
So let’s rewrite Euler using that: