i am now reading some of adrian tchaikovsky's scifi and i thought i would probably like it less than city of last chances because i do tend to prefer fantasy, but i'm reading now about unspace in shards of earth and.
I've tried to draw the graphs of a function x ↦ x² in ℤ/pℤ for some of prime p's. And the result gives me the feeling like I'm a medieval sage and I'm studying some sort of alchemy :)
Apparently we can see quadratic residues (the numbers which have at least one incoming arrow) and quadratic non-residues (have no incoming arrow). It is a visual representation of a fact that for each prime p there are equal amounts of both, which is (p-1)/2. Also, I could see two structures: cycles and trees, which are always combined and which I am curious to investigate further. Also it's interesting how the number of connected components is related to the number p
It really feels like I gradually unveil the secrets of the universe. The look of my printed paper also gives an impression of an ancient scroll
kitten I'm gonna be honest, daddy was kind of a construct existing largely in the form of your gestalt memories of several different people, so he may not exist as an individual in the way you had previously assumed, if such a person ever truly existed at all
Orcas are back to wearing fish as hats soo
*tips salmon*
Minimum wage worker Sukuna
Burgos Cathedral, Castile and León, Spain. VIA.
Angel AU by SarBanChok (on twitter/x)! Red wings are a sign that the angel was expelled from heaven. For the reason of brutal murders.... So it's better not to have ones, Yuji
RUSLAV MENTION????? HELLO??? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HELLO??????