Soham Saha

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Symmetria pulchritudinem creat.


Interests: mathematical visualisation, predicting functions from graphs, geometry, logic, calculus and all other types of magic.

The era of AI is not proving that machines can emulate humans, it is showing that all that we love about humanity is mechanical, stochastic. This is what frightens me.

Contact: Pingable in the chat

A few months ago I had decided to make a website for no particular reason. Here’s the link: https://soham-saha.github.io/

The Base64 encodings of the SHA-512 hashes of "WeSKD" and "MtkPC" start with my name. [Code]


We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels. - antirez

What I cannot create, I do not understand. - Richard Feynman


Feeling an insatiable urge to be evil, yet bound by an innate sense of mathematical duty? Thinking about confusing someone, only to be reminded of your own mathematical clarity?

Don’t worry, we have the just the thing you’re looking for! Just pick your unwilling victim (whom we will call Victor, for paradoxical reasons), and you’re ready to go.

First explain $0.999…=1$ to Victor. If he seems appalled by this, well, you’ve used mathematical truth to disturb his mental peace! What could be better?

But then comes the actual deal, the thing which will actually set Victor’s head spinning around like a merry-go-round!

Ask Victor (politely, of course) to take the $\text{floor}$ of $0.999…$. And you’re done.

Sit back and enjoy, as Victor confuses between $\left\lfloor\lim_{n\rightarrow+\infty}{1-\frac{1}{10^n}}\right\rfloor$ and $\lim_{n\rightarrow+\infty}{\left\lfloor1-\frac{1}{10^n}\right\rfloor}$