How Do Mathematicians Say Hi?

By Alex in Everything Else on Jan 20, 2012 at 2:18 am

With this equation, of course:

Graph that and you'll get this:

via Krulwich Wonders

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  1. baro
    Jan 20th, 2012 at 4:37 am

    I was going to post the same thing. Wolfram Alpha seems to disagree, that’s not HI.

    Neat link though. I already knew the batman one (previously featured at Neatorama, IIRC), and the origami mermaid is worth trying

  2. anon1
    Jan 20th, 2012 at 5:39 am

    The source page says “plot the following equation over the region -3<x<3, -5<y<5. It also suggested that you should only plot the z values in the range 0<z<0.001."

    Is there a way to clip the 3D plot in Wolfram Alpha?

  3. maas
    Jan 20th, 2012 at 6:39 am

    This is the WolframAlpha input:

    e^(-3*((0.5+x)^2+y^2/2))+e^(-x^2-(y^2/2))*cos(4*x)

    .. but it still doesn’t say “Hi”. I’m sad.

  4. Seban678
    Jan 20th, 2012 at 8:06 am

    Try that input:
    plot e^(-3*((0.5+x)^2+y^2/2))+e^(-x^2-y^2/2)*cos(4*x), x=-3..3, y=-5..5

    I don’t think it’s possible to see the intersection at z=0.001 as they’ve done in the picture though.

  5. Alex
    Jan 20th, 2012 at 8:30 am

    Almost, guys – the issue is that your range was off (as Seban678 wrote, it’s probably limitation with Wolfram Alpha):

  6. e3
    Jan 20th, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    That is not an equation.


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