Friday, 13 February 2009

Time to make something more complicated

x²... Very innocent looking thing. But let's say you want to jazz it up a little. Make it more, I don't know, long?? Here's what I think: x² is too short.

First, we need a function:
Next, here's a table of values (ignore g(x) for now):

x

f(x)

g(x)

1

1

3

2

4

5

3

9

7

4

16

9

5

25

11

6

36

13

7

49

15

8

64

17

9

81

19

10

100

21

As you can see, the pattern emerges sooner or later. Values of g(x) represents the difference between f(x+1)-f(x)
From the table, we can conclude that




This keeps going on until
Now, writing that out is incredibly messy, so, I'm gonna use the Greek letter, sigma!! It's the very-cool-looking letter that looks like an E. So, summing it up, you'll get:

But,Therefore,



And because,

Then,Some more,

So, it is possible to write it out as:
And with that, we have finally made x² a little bit more complicated. Hahaha! Have a nice day!

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