Nomic: Wiki Edition --- Finished (More or Less)

[Ircher]

346 passes. I'll update later or tomorrow. M006 expired quite a while ago.

Deimos27 and lendunistus were prodded.
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Question of the Day #11

Category: Music
Question: What are the 12 major scales in the order of the circle of fifths? (If you accidentally reverse the order, you will still get full credit.)

[StrangerCoug]

Question: What are the 12 major scales in the order of the circle of fifths? (If you accidentally reverse the order, you will still get full credit.)

C, G, D, A, E, B, F#/Gb, Db, Ab, Eb, Bb, F

if I worked it out correctly.

[Ircher]

That is correct!

Give StrangerCoug 30 Knowledge Points.

I will go update the wiki now.

[Deimos27]

I exist
I am busy irl
I would've known enzyme and circle of fifths ;-;

[lendunistus]

boop

[Ircher]

I am thinking I will post a victory quiz on Friday and give you all until Monday to do it. It will be 5 questions of hopefully not too difficult questions, and you can gain points and knowledge points if you do well.

Convert N$160 to 8'000 KP.

Buy 1 Victory Quiz Token for 30'000 KP.

Anyone have ideas for more proposals? Maybe we want to modify the election voting given the next election begins like tomorrow?

[Ircher]

Question of the Day #12

Category: Software Engineering
Question: What UML diagram is used to describe the functionality of a system from a user's point of view?

[StrangerCoug]

Again, I feel like I used to know this one

[Deimos27]

Don't even know what UML is

[Ircher]

UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. It's basically used to make various kinds of diagrams.

[Ircher]

Also, the next election should have started, so we should be sending StrangerCoug votes. The election ends in (expired on 2021-11-19 23:59:00).

[Ircher]

Question of the Day #12

Category: Software Engineering
Question: What UML diagram is used to describe the functionality of a system from a user's point of view?

The correct answer is a

use case diagram

.

Question of the Day #13

Category: History
Question: Who created the printing press? (Remember: Both a first and a last name are needed.)
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I will be posting a victory quiz tomorrow morning. It will be open notes and open Internet (subject to a few restrictions).

Also, Jake is at the 3 day mark, so we can't make proposals until he posts.

[Jake The Wolfie]

Question: Who created the printing press? (Remember: Both a first and a last name are needed.)

Johannes Gutenberg

[Jake The Wolfie]

I found something really funny out, and I am actively corroborating with SC to make something hysterical.

I'll give anyone 2 of my vote tickets if they can keep a secret and work with me.

[Aronis]

is it too late to join?

[Jake The Wolfie]

Nope! Just uhh.. read the rules. The oh so many rules. I think you get like 6 points for joining.

[Ircher]

Question: Who created the printing press? (Remember: Both a first and a last name are needed.)

Johannes Gutenberg

That is correct!

Give Jake The Wolfie 30 Knowledge Points.

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is it too late to join?

Signups never close. You are more than welcome to join.
You might want to read about the central bank and submit a vote to StrangerCoug for the currently active election.

[Aronis]

Question: Who created the printing press? (Remember: Both a first and a last name are needed.)

Johannes Gutenberg

That is correct!

Give Jake The Wolfie 30 Knowledge Points.

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is it too late to join?

Signups never close. You are more than welcome to join.
You might want to read about the central bank and submit a vote to StrangerCoug for the currently active election.

awesome, thank you.

first off, i'd like to challenge Jake the Wolfie's answer. I adamantly believe Bi Sheng invented the printing press and it is ridiculously western to claim that gutenberg came up with that idea and invented the product

[Jake The Wolfie]

Question: Who created the printing press? (Remember: Both a first and a last name are needed.)

Johannes Gutenberg

That is correct!

Give Jake The Wolfie 30 Knowledge Points.

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is it too late to join?

Signups never close. You are more than welcome to join.
You might want to read about the central bank and submit a vote to StrangerCoug for the currently active election.

awesome, thank you.

first off, i'd like to challenge Jake the Wolfie's answer. I adamantly believe Bi Sheng invented the printing press and it is ridiculously western to claim that gutenberg came up with that idea and invented the product

I'll enter into intellectual (and possibly literal) combat if you join the game

[Ircher]

first off, i'd like to challenge Jake the Wolfie's answer. I adamantly believe Bi Sheng invented the printing press and it is ridiculously western to claim that gutenberg came up with that idea and invented the product

History is often Euro-centric in nature. Whether right or wrong, Gutenberg is the one credited with this invention which therefore makes it the correct answer to the question as posed.

[Ircher]

Consume 1 Victory Quiz Token.

Victory Quiz #1

Directions: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. You will not be penalized for guessing. Any fully correct answer will receive full credit regardless of any underlying work.

This quiz is open notes and open Internet subject to the following restrictions: 1) you may not use sites like Chegg, Quora, and StackExchange where other people answer questions 2) you may not directly search the provided questions 3) websites like Wolfram Alpha are also prohibited; see the policy on calculators listed below 4) apps of any kind (especially ones like Photomath) are also prohibited. You may look up words like "domain", "derivative", etc., but typing the full question into Google is not appropriate. Examples of acceptable use of the Internet include sites like Wikipedia, Desmos, Overleaf, and pages from a university. You are not allowed to consult with other people on this quiz. Calculators (including online calculators) are acceptable provided that they cannot perform symbolic computations (i.e.: they do not have a CAS). The only allowed programming language on this exam is R. Programs like Mathematica and Maple are also prohibited due to violating the calculator policy.

This quiz consists of

5 questions

and a maximum score of

100 points

. Show your work for partial credit. Unless otherwise specified, all answers should be given in an analytic form; that is, decimal approximations are not correct answers. The dollar signs delineate LateX code; you may want to type it into a LaTeX renderer like Overleaf. If you have any questions regarding the rules of this quiz, please ask.

Please remember that you are PM'ing me your answers. You have until (expired on 2021-11-22 10:00:00) to submit your responses.

Question #1 (14 Points)

: What is the domain and range of $f(x) = x ln(x)$?

Question #2 (8 Points)

: What is the derivative of $g(f) = f^2 + e^{\pi} \ln(\sqrt{17})$?

Question #3 (23 Points)

: A group is a set $G$ together with a binary operation $\cdot$ typically called multiplication that satisfies the following properties: 1) G is closed under multiplication 2) multiplication is associative; that is, $a(bc) = (ab)c$ 3) there is an identity $e$ in $G$ such that $ae = ea = a$ for all $a$ in $G$ and 4) for each element $a$ in $G$, there is an element $a^{-1}$ in $G$ called the inverse of $a$ such that $aa^{-1} = a^{-1}a = e$. We define the order of a group as the number of elements in the group, and the order of a group element is the number of times the element must be multiplied by itself to reach the identity. If no such number exists, we say that the order of the group element is infinite. Which of the following statements about groups and their orders are true?

(Please note: you may NOT directly search any of these statements.)

I) The set of integers under addition modulo $n$ form a group.
II) For all elements $a$ and $b$ in a group, $ab = ba$.
III) The identity element in a group is unique.
IV) For elements $a$ and $b$ in a group, $(ab)^{-1} = a^{-1} b^{-1}$.
V) The set of real numbers under multiplication form a group.
VI) A group of order 31 can have an element of order 6.
VII) The order of the identity is 1.
VIII) Let $a$ be a group element. If $a^k=e$ (that is, multiplying $a$ by itself $k$ times) for some natural number $k$, then the order of $a$ is $k$.
IX) Every group has an element of order 1.

Question #4 (25 Points)

: What words and expressions should go in the blanks in the following proof to correctly prove the vector Thales theorem: if

s

and

v

lie on one line through

0

,

t

and

w

are on another line through

0

, and

w

-

v

is parallel to

t

-

s

, then

v

= a

s

and

w

= a

t

for some scalar a.

(Notes: Boldfaced font indicates a vector. Each blank indicates a single word or a single expression. An expression in this context is any sequence of symbols that includes no equals sign. Answers should be given inline with some kind of separator (e.g.: color, blanks). You may search the phrase "vector Thales theorem", but you may not copy parts of the skeleton proof below.)

Proof:

Since

w

-

v

is ________ to

t

-

s

, there exists a scalar a such that

w

-

v

= ________ = ______. Then, since

v

is on the same line as ____, _____ for some scalar b. Likewise, since

w

is on the _____ _____ as

t

, there exists a scalar c such that

w

= ______. Thus,

w

-

v

= ______ and

w

-

v

= c

t

- c

s

. It follows that (c - a)

t

+ (a - b)

s

= ____. Since ____ and

t

point in ______ ______ from

0

, they are _______ _______. Thus, c - a = 0 and a - b = 0. Therefore,

v

= a

s

and

w

= a

t

. QED.

Question #5 (30 Points)

: Suppose $Y$ is a normally distributed random variable with mean 40 and variance $\sigma^2$. To the nearest integer, what value of $\sigma$ makes the probability that $Y$ is between 20 and 60 equal to 50%?
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Don't forget: you can receive up to 100 KP and 3 points if you do well. (Also, even if you have no clue, please submit something. There is a good chance you will get something for your efforts no matter how small.)

[Jake The Wolfie]

Ircher what the fuck.

We cannot allow this to keep happening.
Allies, we must prevent Ircher's tom-fuckery!

[Ircher]

Buy 1 Swamp

Proposal 347: Tapped lands become untapped after 3 days.

[Ircher]

The election is over, so StrangerCoug can post the results when he gets a chance.

Question of the Day #14

Category: Chinese
Question: The vast majority of Chinese characters have two parts: a semantic part and a phonetic part. What is the term (in English) given to the semantic part of these characters?

[Jake The Wolfie]

The Semantic Part sounds like a good term for it in English.