Requests?

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Sure, it will have to guess which part to factorize in primes, and which part to let unfactored to look nice (i.e. do not factor 1234 into 2*617, because it looks more nicer when written 1234, you know, consecutive numbers... blah blah...)

Ha! Good catch!

[Dubslow]

Since when does \(\infty\) factor as 3⁴*79? Or any factors at all, for that matter.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Since when does \(\infty\) factor as 3⁴*79? Or any factors at all, for that matter.

Now we know that in spite of the boasting that \(\infty\) sign, he actually doesn't post too much...

[0PolarBearsHere]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Since when does \(\infty\) factor as 3⁴*79? Or any factors at all, for that matter.

Which one of the many \(\infty\)s are we talking about here?

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by 0PolarBearsHere

Which one of the many \(\infty\)s are we talking about here?

Presumably \(\aleph_0\).

[retina]

The factored post counts is awesome

Now we need to take it to the next level: Factor everything. Every number in every place.

Reply counts
View counts
Post number
All of the numbers listed in the "千里之行始於足下" section
Post dates: day of the month, month of the year, the year
Post times: hour, month and second
And whatever else I missed

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by retina

And whatever else I missed

This you missed:

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by retina

All of the numbers listed in the "千里之行始於足下" section

We tried to factor the numbers in this section. They are supposed to be global variables that we can use the PHP plugin system to manipulate, but we cannot find the "trigger" event that enables this feature. The menu in the editor has hundreds of triggers that apply to various pages and actions. It took a lot of testing to find the triggers for the nav bar, footer and individual post thingie. Anyways, if we could find the right trigger most of those numbers would be trivial to do.

When you think about it, there is a lot of CPU cycles going on to render a thread. Every post gets the post number factored even if the same person posts multiple times on the page. We use the 97 post view to read so that is a lot! BTW, there is an obscure way to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that each post sidebar element (?) is rendered individually. We don't think anyone will find the evidence but you never know. It might be in an obscure place but it is glaringly obvious once you see it.

[Xyzzy]

The length, in characters, of the factored post counts worried us a little.

Because there are no spaces in the string of text, the page rendering thingy will enlargen the post sidebar element (?) to fit, which we think looks less-than-elegant.

Anyways, assuming we programmed our tester correctly, the longest possible factored post count:

<= 10,000 is:
    12 digits long:
        8580 = "22*3*5*11*13"

<= 100,000 is:
    14 digits long:
        98670 = "2*3*5*11*13*23"
        97812 = "22*32*11*13*19"
        92820 = "22*3*5*7*13*17"
        90090 = "2*32*5*7*11*13"
        87780 = "22*3*5*7*11*19"
        87516 = "22*32*11*13*17"
        81510 = "2*3*5*11*13*19"
        78540 = "22*3*5*7*11*17"
        72930 = "2*3*5*11*13*17"
        60060 = "22*3*5*7*11*13"

Note that superscripted numbers are listed like regular numbers. This made our testing program simpler.

We should have the results for <= 1,000,000 sometime tomorrow.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by retina

Now we need to take it to the next level: Factor everything. Every number in every place.

And whatever else I missed

All numbers within text:
Please give your attention for a brief showing of how Xyzzy's spawn ate some cinnamon in an asinine way.
Would become:
Please give your a2*5tion 2*2 a brief showing of how Xyzzy's spawn 2³ some cinnamon in an asi3*3 way.
Thank you Victor Borge

[snme2pm1]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

It would be an option.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Date formats are a very volatile subject here, for some reason. You would need to get a lot of members to agree with the change. Any time we mess with the format even the littlest bit everyone goes bananas. (Maybe make a poll?)

I submit that a poll to more closely embrace ISO 8601 is redundant.
There are times (particularly after sufficient procrastination) when a change becomes a no-brainer.
Note that there was no dissent to such measures at mersenne.org many months ago.
Further note that there was no dissent to such measures being more stringently applied at mersenne.ca recently.
Consider http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=20678&page=5 onward.

Originally Posted by axn

Actually I think this is one of the easier ones. yyyy-mm-dd date format is the only logical math-y forum-approved date-format. A poll should show the clear consensus on this one

Yes agreed.

I reckon the question is that if anbody has reason to object and makes a reasonable case here then they have liberty to do so.
But otherwise, without any upheld widely supported concerns then outcome should be clear.

Edit: Evidently the site distinguishes between visitors and authenticated members, so any new arrangements for visitors would be low impact in the first instance.