Do you know how similar questions pop up as you are typing your question? How long do you think it will take before a truly similar question will always be found?
Three years?
Thirty years?
Three hundred years?
Or are there just too many permutations?
This is theoretical, of course. Yahoo may not even exist that far into the future.
2006-12-06 11:59:01 · 7 answers · asked by ifyousaysooooooooooo 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Ohh.. what a nice question!.. i'll try to analyze it as theoretically as possible
but...
Sorry.. i have publication rights over this answer... I can't issue them in this forum... but this question is truly interesting....
The answer goes by proposing that there exist several 'meanings' but they are not necesarily a infinite uncountable, but more approximated by an infinite countable; and taking the average life of a question, estimated by taking the population of yahoo questions, the rating system, the yahoo questions's prizing system for upgrading, and the average time a question can be open to answers.
Imposing that conditions leads to a dynamyc equation on the lifetime of a question.
Solving the equation numerically leads to a periodic system! (well, a solution with a pseudorandom part and a composition of several periodic components)... that is awesome, because it is in some way an expected result... in fact, often when you enter a forum, the questions always repeats, from time to time (although a forum has a different prizing system that yahoo question).
When simplifying the resulting equation, it is posible to obtain a second order approximation, leading to a sinusoidal system plus an overdamped response.
Have fun.. kisses!
2006-12-06 12:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by Larallia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about every question but I've noticed in the short time that I've been here the same question shows up a lot. I also notice that some people get the solution method explained in detail and then post another problem that identical except for coeff.
I taught remedial algebra at a state college for freshman who had use the 'minimum effort/anything but learn it' method to pass their hight school math. Some of them don't make it and have to go back to community college.
2006-12-06 20:34:40 · answer #2 · answered by modulo_function 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there will ever be a point where every single question could have been exhausted. In 10 years there will be different issues that didn't exist today that will be the subject of questions. Times are ever changing, so I don't think Yahoo! Answers will ever get to that point.
2006-12-06 20:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by chris 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As knowledge is always expanding, and because people like to argue, there will always be some new take on a question that can be asked. In science, answers to questions often led to a whole new bevy of questions that weren't even anticipated beforehand. New questions should become more frequent and greater in number as time goes on.
2006-12-06 20:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
5 billion years from now, when the universe collapses.
Or until the human race comes to an end.
Until then, people will continue to ask trivial questions on Yahoo!.
2006-12-06 20:05:41 · answer #5 · answered by Indians fan 07 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i doubt there will ever be an end to new questions. i think its impossible.... and i agree with the two who said there will be new problems in the future, that dont exist today, and knowledge will keep expanding =] =]
2006-12-06 20:08:38 · answer #6 · answered by =] 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
tomorrow or today at about four thirty...
2006-12-06 20:08:46 · answer #7 · answered by mr green 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋