Timeline for What should I do if my question is too hard for me and probably beyond my knowledge?
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| Jul 18, 2023 at 17:13 | answer | added | Josiah Yoder | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 3:56 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 2:40 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | Interaction will do plenty of good. Even if the question isn't clear enough initially, your willingness to talk will bring others to the table as well, as this meta thread (and Mike Earnest in the main thread) showed. With interaction you will also be able to eventually ask the right questions clearly without needing help beforehand. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 17:58 | comment | added | Just a man in the world | @hardmath Thank you but after I read Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos. I think I will be able to understand the my question soon. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 16:51 | comment | added | hardmath | Closely related: Should you ask questions on math.se (and other sites) that you know you won't understand the answer to any time soon? | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 23:00 | comment | added | Accelerator | Sorry, I don't know much about ordinals to give good feedback on it. Maybe you could say something like, "Let $0$ be the empty set and its successor is $00$. Then the successor of that is $000$, then $0000$, and so on." I don't know how it fits into your post you linked, but I was thinking you could also try to describe in plain English how a list of zeroes maps to its corresponding ordinal given some certain conditions. That's all I know. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 20:07 | comment | added | Just a man in the world | @Accelerator Ok, I just read the Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos. But the problem is I don't know how to explain my encoding method mathematically. Base on Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos, in my system, "0" is empty set. The successor of "0" is "00". The successor of "00" is "000". The successor of "000" is "0000". And so on. Do I explain my encoding method mathematically correctly ?. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 18:30 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jul 10, 2023 at 18:17 | comment | added | Accelerator | In the post you linked, you basically gave out a huge list of examples, but it doesn't seem like you have some formulas that explain what your encoding method is that you made up, or what exactly you're doing in general. If you have not taken a basic course or read a book regarding the basics of proofs, sets, or functions, you might want to start there first before jumping into ordinals. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 12:20 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 8:35 | history | asked | Just a man in the world | CC BY-SA 4.0 |