How does the eightfold path work?
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If you are referring to the Eightfold Path in Buddhism, you simply respect the eight rules. This includes:\n\nRight Livelihood (you should not earn your money as a soldier, weapons-dealer, sex trade worker, drug dealer or butcher)\n\nRight Meditation\n\nRight Thought (keeping the mind clear of negative/hateful/intolerant thoughts)\n\nRight Speech (words that are honest, kind, worthy and nurturing)\n\nRight Conduct (do no harm to others)\n\nRight Mindfulness (i.e. awareness)\n\nRight Effort (effort to putting the other parts of the path into action)\n\nRight Concentration
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I am not sure if I got the correct meaning of your question, but I guess the answer, if you are asking the number of possible paths in such a network, is 2*n*(n-1) in the case of one-way paths and n*(n-1) when talking of two-way paths.\n\nThe reason is that, in the one-way case, each of the n nodes may be linked to any of the resting (n-1) nodes in one of the two possible ways, making 2*n*(n-1). In the case of two way paths, only one path linking each of the nodes exists thus the n*(n-1) number.\n\nYou may be asking the number of possible networks, which would be a more interesting problem. If this is so, please ask another question.
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click on the below link, and choose any one of the results. I would advise reading at least 3 of them to get a feel for theory before choosing one of the walkthroughs.\n\nBest of luck to you!
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Unfortunately the number of sinners which directly correlates to the number of people in existence may approach infinity but we cannot reproduce so much as to get there. So really the n limit would never approach infinity as the asymptote would actually be just a hole. Now on that hole would be the n number of people (sins included) that could no longer reproduce and the function would simply end. Since we dont seem to have an explanation for this you assume the rest of the people in sins graph are infact imaginary and so on the entirely different dimension in which the graph plots those saved as well. Looking back from this plot of saved people who are also sinners the coexistent of the real point and the imaginary one allow the overriding of the imaginary to be forever held in the non sinner world without time as they are in fact plotted both within it. So all this goes to say that the answer is no. You can't get kicked out of heaven in the first place but if you were our function then could not simply end becasuse it is at the imaginary points which actually double back over the now no longer "function" that allow the heaven in the first place. So mathematics are not a tool of satan, though they have become a terribly unskillfully used tool of man to manipulate any situation :)
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Yes i do. He was a thinker who taught that in order for you to achieve happiness and inlightment you had to unattach yourself from things and concentrate. You must follow the 4 noble truths and a 8 way path in order to achieve this inlightment. He started buddhism.
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The statement is false.\n\nTo solve this, we use a Venn diagram, like this (go ahead and try this; it's easy and quick):  Draw a circle and label it "Wanks".  Now draw a circle that intersects the Wanks circle, and label it "Cranks".  Now put two dots in the Wanks circle, two dots in the Cranks circle, and two dots in the area where the circles intersect.  Notice that there are four Wanks and four Cranks, and two of them are both Wanks _and_ Cranks.  Now draw a third circle that intersects only the Cranks circle, and label it "Blanks".  Put two dots in the Blanks circle, and put two dots in the area where the Blanks and Cranks circles intersect.  Notice that there are now six Cranks and four Blanks, and two of them are both Cranks _and_ Blanks.\n\nNow use your diagram to test your true/false statement.  It is true that some Wanks are Cranks, and it is true that some Cranks are Blanks; but there are no Wanks that are Blanks.  So the statement is false.
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26. The pattern has to start 1, 2, 4, 8, 15. I see the differences are 1, 2, 4, 7, and the differences of the differences are 1, 2, 3. The next difference of the difference has to be 4, so, working my way back up, I figure the next difference has to be 11, making the next number 26.\n\nAs for why this makes sense: Consider the question in two dimensions, i.e. into how many parts will many random lines diivide a plane?  That pattern starts 1, 2, 4, 7, 11 - the same numbers on the differences line above.  If you want to get really abstruse, I would submit that the number parts random spaces divide the fourth dimension is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 57.  :)\n\n* * * * * *\n\nHey, you really do ask an interesting question, but it appears I'm the only one willing to answer it.  (Yes, I see you asked the same question a few days ago.)  OK, then, let's look at it more systematically:\n\n\nOne-dimensional question: Into how many parts will random points divide a line?\n\nEasy question, obviously:  Zero points leave one part (i.e. the whole line); one point breaks it into two parts, two points into three parts, etc.  The sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.  Generally, n random points divide a line into n + 1 parts. \n\n\nTwo-dimensional question: Into how many parts will random lines divide a plane?\n\nHarder question, but you can work this one out on paper.  Zero lines leave one part (the whole plane); one line breaks it in two; two lines breaks it in four.  Then it gets tricky - the third line can't go thru all four parts, but it can go through three of them, so you end up with 7 parts.  The fourth line can go through 4 of the 7 parts.  Now, how you'd prove this rigorously I don't know, but the sequence is 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, etc. and is clearly derived from the one-dimensional sequence: start with 1, then add 1 to get 2, then add 2 to get 4, then add 3 to get 7, then add 4 to get 11, etc.  To put this into a formula, n random lines divide a plane into (n^2 + n + 2)/2 parts.        \n\n\nNow for the three-dimensional question: Into how many parts will random planes divide a three-dimensional space?\n\nTo visualize this one, look at a corner of your room.  Obviously, zero planes leave one part (the whole space), one plane  breaks it in two (visualize the floor of your room as the plane, for example), two planes breaks it in four (visualize the floor plus one wall), and three planes breaks it in eight (visualize the floor plus two adjoining walls).  Now, try to imagine the fourth plane - it can't go through all eight parts, but it can go through seven of them, making a total of 15 parts.  The three-dimensional  sequence starts 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, and again we see it is derived from the sequence for the previous dimension: start with 1, then add 1 to get 2, then add 2 to get 4, then add 4 to get 8, then add 7 to get 15, etc.  To get the number for 5 planes, add 11 to get 26.  To put this into a formula, n random planes divide space into (n^3 + 5n + 6)/6 parts.   \n\nBased on what we are seeing, what the heck - why not carry it forward to the fourth dimension.  Using the numbers from the three-dimensional sequence, the sequence becomes 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 57, etc.  We can conclude, for example, that 6 random three-dimensional spaces divide the fourth dimension in 57 parts.  Now that should really impress your instructor!
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I guess that the only way is the way that works!  If you can "get to God" by following your own self-made path, then it's the right way.  If you follow someone else's path and it gets you there, then it's the right way, too.  You made the analogy, not me.  I think it works.
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maybe take a different approach and look at how a simple chain can be formed from nothing. what are the odds of that happening. take a spin on the WWW to find out.
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it is just like understanding a hyperbola. if you throw a stone in air it will feeling a force until it reaches the highest altitiude then it falls down as a projectile . the path traced by it may be in vector quantities
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Science fiction has explored this in tremendous detail, and has come up with no solid answer.  I'm not going to, either, but let me see if I can share a little bit of thought to help you find an answer you're comfortable with...\n\nEnvision the existence of a human being as a path that the human moves along, moving only in one direction: always closer to the end of the path, and further from its start.  So far, so good?  (Mathematically, it would be a 3-dimensional curve in a higher dimensional space; (string theory wants it to be 10 or 11 dimensions, I hear) your perception of time would be caused by your traversing that curve.)\n\nNOW: Time travel says that there is a way of bending this path around so that, although you're still moving closer and closer to the end of the path, the path itself loops around behind itself.  Think of a rope that's laid on the floor in a zigzag or a loop.\n\nFirst: the person who is me in, say, 2020, and comes back to visit me in 2006 is not identical to the 2006 me: that person is further down the path...  I might not even recognize the future me as me...\n\nSecond: I suspect that what happens depends whether the path zigzags without crossing itself, or actually crosses itself, forming a loop.  What the loop would do is pure guesswork...  It might separate off (See: "The Lincoln Hunters"); it might do nothing (See: "The End of Eternity") or it might cause an incredible release of energy, possibly destroying the individual altogether, and maybe lots of other things, as well.  (See: "The Weapons Shops of Isher")\n\nUntil we develop the ability to travel backward in time, we just don't know; all we can do is guess, guess, guess.\n\nWhich is fun--and the source of a lot of good fiction I've read!
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Wrong--if you count the 16 cubes on all four sides, you forget that you are counting edge pieces twice and corner pieces four times that way.  Look at it as two opposite faces, each with 16 cubes (although I though Rubik's cubes always were 3X3, but I guess there are 4X4s too).  Then you have 32 plus 8 on each of two other pieces that aren't counted yet.  The last two sides only have 4 cubes that aren't counted yet.  That gives 16*2 plus 8*2 plus 4*2 or 32+16+8=56 visible cubes.  If you want to count all cubes internal and otherwise and assumed it was a block of cubes 4X4X4 (Rubik's cubes obviously don't have cubes on the inside), then you would just have 64.  Basically there would theoretically be a block (2X2X2) in the inside that you can't see (8 cubes is 64-56).  I hope this is the answer you're looking for and didn't simply confuse you further.
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Try Google or Yahoo.  You'll find worked examples there.  I think it needs diagrams to understand; they and the accompanying explanations are too complex to attempt to reproduce here.
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The universe is created by a thought consciousness which manifests in physical reality through a geometric blueprint that we call Sacred Geometry which repeats in cycle giving the illusion of linear time.\n\n12=1+2=3=third dimension - manifestation in 3D\n12 spiraling cones around 1 source = 13 = 4=4th dimension = time\nForming grid programs of eXperience - MatriX - Tricks - Trickster - Duality\nThe boX = 'X' or the hourglass='Z'\n'X' - As is above, So is Below - Emerald Tablets of Thoth=Hermes Trismegistus\nHermes The Magician - Magic - Tricks - Magi - Christ Consciousness Grid\nThoth the ancient Egyptian Scribe who wrote our program\nEmerald = Alchemy - Emerald City = OZ - The WiZard\nAlchemy Wheel of Consciousness based on the spiraling patterns of\nSacred Geometry = SG = StarGate = Wheel of Karma = Alchemy Wheel\nwhich spirals consciousness back to Source\nand is linked with the center - Eye of the Milky Way Galaxy - the Heart
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it's a wormhole that takes you to another dimension, i guess.\n\nthat means it will take you from a 4-d world to a 8-d or \n2-d world.\n\nyou could go to the inside of an electron, if this us possible.
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It is expanding in a higher dimensional context.  So there are not 3 or 4 dimensional areas into which it expands, and you can't walk your four-dimensional self beyond the boundaries of space into a four-dimension area beyond space any more than Garfield or Dilbert can walk off the comic page to see the 3-D world in which the paper they're on could be folded.
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According to Wiki-Numerology, "Eight is considered to be the number of karmic influences where we are called upon to pay debts incurred in this and previous lives. It represents hard work and lessons learned through experience, and can therefore be a difficult number for some because of the very restrictiveness of its nature. More than any other number, eight seeks money and material success. However, the hardships eight faces in pursuit of its rewards are extreme. Huge reversals in life are common for the eight. Because reputation and community standing are of paramount importance, those who have it figured prominently would be wise to lead honest lives, otherwise any indiscretions will more than likely be uncovered in a most unflattering manner. Although it is considered "good luck" in Chinese culture, it is of no particular importance according to the esoteric beliefs of Chinese numerology."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology#Eight\n\nIn Billiards, when playing Eight-Ball, the Eight-Ball is the only ball which is considered both a solid and a stripe - and yet neither.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_ball\n\nThis special status of "in-between-ness" of "both yet neither" is akin to the magickal concept of "walking between the worlds."\n\nhttp://beyondweird.com/occult/wbtw01.html\n\nAdditionally, 8 is the special number of Chaos Mages, who are likely the only occultists to take the Magic 8-Ball seriously as a divinatory tool.  Or well, at least as seriously as they take anything.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic\n\nBut more likely than not, inventor Abe Bookman just thought it looked cool.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_8_ball\nhttp://8ball.ofb.net/faq.html