Re:Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
by mmmmmbop on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:38AM
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Imagine you're standing on a set point on the surface on the outer coin, e.g. the one touching the inner coin. As the outer coin rotates around the inner coin, your experienced reality will be that you see n-1 rotations.
In the example of the outer coin having 1/3 the radius of the inner coin, as the outer coin rolls around the inner coin 4 times, you would actually only touch the inner coin 3 times.
Re:Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
by python273 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:44AM
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I made a visualization for
> Circle A has 1/3 the radius of circle B, and circle A rolls one trip around circle B. How many times will circle A revolve in total?
I get I may be being unintelligent, but isn’t the author confusing the rolling coin paradox with an obscure astronomical reference system and coming up with a ‘mistakenly technically correct’ result that doesn’t match experienced reality?