2006-10-06 11:58:40 · 6 answers · asked by Seeker 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
[ЭΩ∞]: I think you are being a big tease. (Maybe I deserve it for that quip about angels.) But this is a serious question and I'm hoping for at least some provisional answer not a mandate for a 20-year pilgrimage. I've already spent more than 20 years proving that the I Ching is actually a 6-dimensional mandala. At my age I'm not even sure I have another 20 years left in me. So excuse me if I'm looking for a fast track answer.
2006-10-08 04:41:07 · update #1
A transcendental number is a number that is not only irrational, but is also nonalgebraic.
In non-math-speak, not only is does it never end and never repeat, you also can't get the number easily by just adding or subtracting a bunch of numbers.
Mathematicians have proved that there are more transcendental numbers than countable numbers (even though they're both infinite in number) but proving any particular number is transcendental is a real pain in the neck. Pi is probably the best known transcendental number.
Of course, if you were referring to transdimensional number systems, that's an entirely different thing. That's when you have a space with an undefined number of coordinates, sometimes called an 'n-dimensional system'. In this sense, no specific number is considered to be a transdimensional number... at best it describes one of an undefined number of coordinates in that system.
Hope that helps!
2006-10-06 12:24:24 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of transdimensional numbers. Are you sure you didn't mean transcendental numbers? If you did, a transcendental number is one that's not algebraic, An algebraic number is one that's a root of some polynomial with rational coefficients.
It's kinda hard to prove a number is transcendental. The best known transcendental numbers are pi and e.
2006-10-06 20:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by Steiner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Transdimensional" numbers have nothing to do with either "Transcendental" or "Transfinite" numbers. ... To have a better idea of transdimensional numbers, you MUST first have a good feel for what is meant to be achieved by "Transdimensional Analysis" - I guess I made you even more confused, Huh? Believe me, I don't mean to; it's just that we need roughly about 20 solid years to go over some "basic stuff" before we get there! :-) ... Anyway, all I can tell you in this limited YA format is: PLEASE, don't listen to what our dear friends here are offering you as "the definition" for Transdimensional Number! If you are mathematically apt, start by looking into "transfinite algebra" and work your way up to their applications in Quantum Reality and phenomenological concerns - from there we only have 19 more years to go! :-) Good Luck My Friend!
2006-10-07 10:10:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think transdimensional numbers mean you randomly (or dilebrately)pick two numbers or meanings which have no bearing on the subject and state your intention to use them as a factual solution to an often non existing problem.
It's theory, unproven as God or Evolution but accepted by those into quantum physics reality intothe unreal.
2006-10-06 20:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Are you thinking of transcendental numbers?
2006-10-06 19:06:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Numbers are quantities, they don't have dimensions. Vectors do.
2006-10-06 19:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by Adriana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋