At http://www.translationparty.com/#10771789, starting with: Take the cube root of your number, submit it to RIES, then express your original number as "5 to the power of 3". It eventually leads to this 4-cycle: 4N: Take the route number of Hokkaido University 5 cube strength three stars. 4N+1: ルート番号北海道大学 5 キューブ強度の 3 つ星を取る。 4N+2: Take route number Hokkaido University 5 cube strength three stars. 4N+3: ルート番号北海道大学 5 キューブ強度 3 つの星を取る。 The site claims, "Yes, I know it repeated a set of 4. That's not equilibrium." but I suspect it would satisfy Henry Baker's "rt^(n+m)(x)" question. Of slightly less mathematical interest is "can you start with X and converge on the negation or converse of X?". Here is an example, and probably a victim of the Yoda-like grammar of Japanese [1]: www.translationparty.com/#9111 let's go! The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. into Japanese: 精神が喜んでですが、肉は弱いです。 back into English: Is that the spirit is willing flesh is weak. ... back into English: Weak of mind and body willing. back into Japanese: 心と体を喜んでの弱い。 back into English: Weak of mind and body willing. Equilibrium found! - Robert [1] http://www.textfugu.com/season-1/japanese-grammar-with-yoda/ (It's worth seeing for the picture alone) On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Mitchell <mitchell.v.riley@gmail.com>wrote:
Here is a site that does English <-> Japanese until a fixed point is found.
http://www.translationparty.com/ On 3 March 2013 00:29, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
[...] Are there cycles, such that rt^n(x) never converges, but rt^(n+m)(x)=rt^n(x) for some m and for all n>some p ? [...]
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