Talk:Tupper's self-referential formula
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This should be merged with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_tupper_self_referential_formula 132.239.215.69 23:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] seems fine now
It seems wiki enough to me. Mathiastck 14:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image
Replaced original image; new image is misleading because it has white pixels outside the range of the plot, and this is not the case. Dysprosia 04:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Eh, I don't mind. When I first noticed it, there were two pictures present, and I just chose whichever one looked nicest. --Wafulz 03:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Misnomer
I'd recommend to directly mention that actually there's nothing self-referential in the formula. It's only a generic decoding formula (as is said later in the article). A 'true' self-referencial formula would not need something like n as input. 131.246.194.46 12:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- There's still something self-referential about a formula which plots an ASCII representation of itself over certain inputs. It's not perfect, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a misnomer. Chris Cunningham 12:06, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removed claim that Tupper described formula as "totally shocking".
The previous revision claimed Tupper described his formula as "totally shocking" with a reference to http://stanwagon.com/wagon/Misc/bestpuzzles.html . This is a misinterpretation of the content of said webpage. The page lists a series of mathematical games with number 14 being Tupper's formula. The formula is introduced with the wording
14. (Jeff Tupper) There is something about the graph of the following function that is totally shocking. What is it?
The author names Jeff Tupper as a way of attribution, not citation.
