Topology
- Exz
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Topology
The four colour theorem, that any map only requires four colours, was supposedly solved by a computer, with there being precisely 1,936 such maps. I have worked out that there are three types of map, each of which can have one slight variation which also requires four colours, and that two of these principal maps can have infinite variations. There are thus infinite maps requiring four colours.
How would I post diagrams thereof?
- Alec Smart
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Re: Topology
That's a hell of a lot of diagrams, I think you may be being a little over ambitious.Exz wrote:There are thus infinite maps requiring four colours.
How would I post diagrams thereof?
- Exz
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Re: Topology
- Alec Smart
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Re: Topology
I just keep clicking on things until I get the desired effect. I have to admit that it's not the ideal way to achieve the result you're after, it's a bit time consuming and there are often embarrassing incidents along the way but I usually get there in the end. I hope this advice is of some help to you.Exz wrote:There must be a way that I can post a .pdf or something, isn't there?
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Re: Topology
I say "hues" rather than "colours" because tones or shades of the same hue are probably not what is meant by the theory.
- Exz
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Re: Topology
-- Updated December 24th, 2015, 4:09 am to add the following --
From my first post, I meant there are two maps which can have a slight variation, not all three. And two maps can have infinite variations, but not the same two!
-- Updated December 24th, 2015, 1:13 pm to add the following --
Hello Again,
Trying to discuss anything here is very frustrating. It takes an age for things to appear. Why is this?
I am now using the 'Talk Page' on Wikipedia, the four colour theorem page, but I've still to work out how to get them to reply to me!
- Exz
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Re: Topology
-- Updated February 18th, 2016, 1:58 pm to add the following --
Hmm... I have been *trying* to work out whether my ideas/discoveries re: the 'four colour theorem' hold significance. I still think they do. It did not take what used to be a super-computer (or nowadays any old computer) a lot of computrons to work out. Well, apparently it did, and they keep on about this, so how come I worked it out myself?
Please someone have a look at the 'talk' pages on 'four colour theorem' on wikipedia, and try and explain to me why I am being rubbished...
- Sy Borg
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Re: Topology
I've bumped the topic for you. It's not as per the rules but just this once.
- Exz
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Re: Topology
Greta, or anyone, apparently I'm not yet *allowed* (??) to post a URL, but could anyone who's ever looked at the four-colour-thingy, or been good at topology, have a look at the Wikipedia site, and its talk pages, and explain to me why the authors of the above are rubbishing my suggestion that the problem can be solved without throwing a computer at it? Please? I don't get it. Am I just being thick? I don't think so, but that seems to be the Wikipedia contributors' implication...
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