Friday 15 January 2010

Question for Jan 15, 2010 - PS

Connect the images:


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8 comments:

AJ said...

The connect is Pascal. 1) code in Pascal, 2) Pascal's paradox, 3) Pascal's pyramid and 4) demo of Pascal's law on pressure and cross-section area (don't exactly remember the law).

Ankur said...

My guess is De Morgan..

2. May be represents his logical operator laws
3. May be is called De Morgans Triangle

No idea abt 1 and 4

Kiran Vyakaranam said...

My vague answer:
1. represents something that has a start and end
2. represents something that considers all possibilities
3. represents something that's recurring (Fibonacci series)
4. represents something that's continuous/cyclic/repetitive (to me this is a representation of the continuity theorem in FM)

Are these some situations related to math/algorithms/computing?...being uninitiated in these I can't put my finger on anything specific...

Dev said...

Pascal

1. Probably the Pascal prog. lang.
2. No idea.
3. Pascal's triangle
4. No idea.

Nikhil said...

Connect is Pascal.
1. PASCAL programming language
2. Pascal's wager
3. Pascal's triangle
4. Demonstration of Pascal's law.

IC said...

The link is Pascal-

1. Pascal programming language

2. Pascal's wager arguing in favour for belief in God.

3. Pascal's triangle of binomial coefficients (confirmed this on wiki).

4. Pascal's law of pressure

Sailesh Ganesh said...

The connect is Pascal. The second image is Pascal's wager, the third image is Pascal's triangle. I'm guessing the hello world program and the hydraulic system also have something to do with Pascal, though I don't know what.

The Answer said...

The connect is indeed Blaise Pascal.

1 is a hello world in the Pascal programming language, which Niklaus Wirth named after Blaise Pascal.

2 is the famous (and much maligned) Pascal's wager, which suggests even atheists to lead their lives as if God exists. It was allegedly groundbreaking in its first use ever of probability theory, infinity, and decision theory.

3 is Pascal's triangle, the name given to the geometric arrangement of binomial coefficients in a triangle.

4 is a hydraulic press, which is based on Pascal's law ( P_1 V_1 = P_2 V_2 ).

Congrats Anshul, Dev, Nikhil, Ishani, Sailesh.