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Thursday 8 November 2007

mathematical integral equation for web versioning

humorous way of calculating web versioning

A bit of levity during the W3C TPAC from the wonderful T.V. Raman, presenting the closing panel of the day, Cracks & Mortars.

Filed under:   humor, standards, web design and development, photos, w3c, conferences, nmby
Posted by:   Molly | 12:53 pm |

26 Responses to “mathematical integral equation for web versioning”

  1. Eric Meyer Says:

    Humor so geeky, it requires advanced coursework to grasp. Sure wish I’d had that advanced coursework…

  2. Molly Says:

    I wish I could take classes from Raman. If I’d had had advanced coursework from someone as brilliant and entertaining as him, I think I’d have been a lot better at Ye Olde Maths.

  3. Steven Clark Says:

    The joy of programming is that tomorrow that will be a function which I’ll just be able to call without having to worry about the underlying mathematical abstraction which I might have needed coursework to understand. :)

    WebVersion.getNext();

    I have a feeling the problem might be with working out its return type (unless it just returns a WebVersion object). If we knew that we’d be very very rich indeed… nope I’m not smart enough to understand the math either but I tried my best to hide it lol.

  4. T. V. Raman Says:

    The math equation under discussion counts the number of possible
    subsets of a set of size N.

    Basically, if you:

    A) Let W denote the set of all Web resources addressible via
    URIS,

    B) Realize that there is nothing special about pairwise mashups,
    and that it is possible to combine arbitrary subsets of Web
    resources where it makes sense

    Then you get:

    (W Choose 0) + (W Choose 1) + … (W Choose W) = 2^W.

    Note that the above is a *huge* number.
    What’s more, the moment you’ve instantiated your new mashup based
    on what’s available on the Web,
    if you deploy your mashup right, it immediately increases the
    size of the Web.

    And you dont even need to wire up a peice of fruit-cake a la
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to construct this particular
    Total Perspective Vortex!

  5. Molly Says:

    So Raman, you’re really just saying it’s all 42?

  6. Ms. Jen Says:

    Yes, it is 42… or at least divisors of 6 and 7…

    ;op

  7. Jens W Says:

    Please don’t ask him for the meaning for 42.
    So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ;-)

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  9. dantel Says:

    So Raman, you’re really just saying it’s all 42?

  10. firefox indir Says:

    thanks

  11. bruce Says:

    it is easy to find it, i think u just search on google or yahoo

  12. evden eve Says:

    but, i think it is another thing which you have

  13. felsefe Says:

    Looks very interesting!
    Thanks very much.
    Regards

  14. universal trade Says:

    i like it

  15. trade Says:

    interesting, thanks

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    do you know everything about css?

  17. belediye Says:

    how can i find everything about css?

  18. ticaret odasi Says:

    what do you want to learn about css? we can help easily

  19. milliyet Says:

    i want learn too, i want start at the beginning of css

  20. Worker Says:

    Gute Info, danke Molly

  21. umit Says:

    it is good t see u

  22. oyun Says:

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  24. uygar Says:

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  25. sanayi odasi Says:

    ok,thanks

  26. fikralar Says:

    hi, umit. how is going on

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