A Win/Win situation?
Can you imagine me hanging out with a savant trying to show him how to roll mesh and make coils...
Zen~: So... you fasten the coil wire to the ground screw first...
Karma: How many Inch Pounds of torque a
Zen~: It doesn't have to be precise... just make it snug...
Karma: That screw is rated to be tight at 11 inch pounds...
Zen~: Just make it snug...
Karma: 5 inch pounds is too loose, I'll try 6
Zen~: Just snug it... turn it until it just catches
Karma: 6 inch pounds catches it... but I'm not sure if its snug... it may be snug... i'm not sure... is this snug?
Zen~: It's not a precise thing...
Karma: I'll try 7 Inch pounds
Zen~: Ok, let me know when it's snug
Karma: 7 Inch pounds is snug, maybe too snug...
Zen~: I'm sure it will be fine.... Now.. wrap the wire 4 times CLOCKWISE around the wick...
Karma: Clockwise from the top or the bottom?
Zen~: Seriously?
Karma: Well... they are opposite directions... I want to get this right...
Zen~: Looking down from trom the top...
Karma: but... when I hold it in my hand and tip it this way it's the other direction
Zen~: Don't hold it that way
Karma: I can't hold it any other way.
Zen~: so wrap it around the wick 4 times and fasten it to the top screw
Karma: When If I wrap it four times there will only be three wraps on the back of the wick...
Zen~: I know...
Karma: Do you want 4 on the front or the back?
Zen~: Four on the front... three on the back
Karma: So you you want three full wraps plus the lead-ins and lead-outs... so it looks like 4 on the front and there's really only 3 full wraps... its funny... but I'm kind of hung up on mathematical visualization... This reminds me of the Mandelbrot set which is a particular mathematical set of points whose boundary is a distinctive and easily recognizable two-dimensional fractal shape. It's really closely related to Julia sets in it's complexity and the visualizations are similar though not identical... most people see them as the same... I see the differences pretty clearly...
The thing to realize is the Mandelbrot set is the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded. That is, a complex number c is part of the Mandelbrot set if, when starting with z0 = 0 and applying the iteration repeatedly, the absolute value of zn remains bounded however large n gets. It's really cool!
As as example, letting c = 1 gives the sequence 0, 1, 2, 5, 26,
, which tends to infinity. As this sequence is unbounded, 1 is not an element of the Mandelbrot set. On the other hand, c = i (where i is defined as i2 = −1) gives the sequence 0, i, (−1 + i), −i, (−1 + i), −i, ..., which is bounded, and so i belongs to the Mandelbrot set.
This is kinda like that...
Zen~: Exactly... then... you snug down the top screw...
Karma: Cool...
