Morning and Simple Mathematical Logics
Tauhid Nur Azhar
This morning, the world is spinning cheerfully, like a merry-go-round in a playground at the corner of the capital city. The sun seems to be smiling with a laugh, and the sky is blue without a cloud, in harmony with its consensus, presenting a wave with a length of 445 and 450 nm, making it appear blue with a purple hue, framing a wave with a length of 460 nm that appears as pure blue, or a spectrum of 473 nm, which we know as the color of the blue sky.
The blueness of this morning has awakened my longing, which was frozen last night due to the cold smile of your sadism towards me. Until this morning, I was stuck because my brain and muscles suddenly became stiff, my tongue felt very dry, and my head slowly became dizzy. Because of you, the source of longing, who came to attack the horizon of my heart with a multitude of jealousy.
Why is that so? It’s because the Clash of Champions has captivated my entire attention, making me unable to focus on massaging your ego. Then, that sadistic smile emerged, which in a matter of milliseconds was able to surpass the freezing point.
The freezing point is relative, of course. Because if it exceeds the absolute freezing point, not only will my heart shatter into pieces in front of you, but also my beloved blue Sponge Bob’s color will crystallize and become fragile, even vulnerable to being broken by a single insect that passes by.
Do you know that the absolute freezing point, or absolute zero, is a hypothetical temperature at which the molecular energy is at its minimum? At absolute zero, the particles or molecules of a system are considered to have no internal energy and do not show any movement at all. Similar to the intestines affected by Scopolamine, whose active ingredient is Hyoscine hydrobromide, extracted from the Solanaceae family, such as Datura.
Numerically, the absolute freezing point is written as 0 K, -273.15 °C, or -459.67 °F.
The most commonly used absolute temperature scale is the Kelvin scale, denoted by K.
On the Kelvin scale, the absolute freezing point corresponds to 0 K. For example, a room temperature of around 20°C, when converted to Kelvin, becomes 20°C + 273.15 = 293.15 K. Hopefully, it’s easy to understand, right?
Because I was engrossed in watching a review by a physics YouTuber named Mas Fajrul, who is an alumnus of the same university as me, Universitas Diponegoro Semarang, about the cool questions in the Clash of Champions, I became fascinated and lost in thought, like being lulled by the sweet melodies and gentle sways of Ike Nurjanah’s songs… lost in thought.
But indeed, the questions given to the clever Indonesian kids are attractive and very engaging. Today, I had a class for in-house training at Bank Indonesia about data-driven policy.
There was a question that involved a chain of equations, where there were values hidden in alphabets, such as A, B, C, and so on, each of which could be determined by operating various simple equations presented in a series of boxes.
To find the value of A, for example, we can use the result of the operation in equation x, which is then used to solve the calculation in equation y, which can reveal the value of A in equation z. That’s the conceptual way of thinking.
The example question in stage 1 of the Clash of Champions Ruang Guru can be a very good example of the importance of extracting and elaborating data to find the value or meaning of a phenomenon, which, like any condition in the universe, has several contributing factors that affect an event with their respective capacities and proportions in a causal relationship.
This question also has a deep philosophy that can be applied to data-driven management or decision-making and development of public policy. The numerical data resulting from various operations is a representation that aligns with the data model in the real environment.
The difference in nomenclature, definition, and even symbolic semantics and language articulation in the context of semantics, which triggers differences in perception or point of view, is a common phenomenon we encounter in everyday interactions.
What needs to be sought is the pattern of equality, which in this case is the operating system. The solution to the problem above is by looking at the pattern of each algebraic operation and finding the existence of a certain multiplier and using a single operation model, namely multiplication. Thus, heterogeneous, multi-channel, and unevenly labeled data can be seen to have a beautiful pattern and guide us to obtain a complete picture of the anatomy of the problem.
Another question that presents various simple arithmetic equations in a hexagon, arranged like a beehive, where there are several types of mathematical operations that appear to be diverse, including exponentiation, roots, multiplication, and division, makes us assume that this is a complex system that is difficult to approach simply and happily (both are names of Padang restaurants), from morning to evening (Pagi Sore is also a Minang restaurant). However, there is a pattern that can be read within it.
The combination and variation of patterns that appear random are a reflection of the dynamics and concept of uncertainty in real life. The pattern that can be read is not necessarily random; there will always be a surprise factor in a condition that we think can be controlled well, and all data we assume is homogeneous. Similarly, data that appears random and chaotic may actually be a form of regularity, as revealed by Mandelbrot in his concept of fractal geometry.
There’s also a question that’s full of beautiful deceit. Simply put, the deceitful question is just a matter of being clever in seeing the pattern in the hexagon and calculating the value of the numbers inside it with very easy addition operations. A question with simple arithmetic calculations. However, it can also be approached with a relatively simple mathematical model, which is by adding up all the numbers in each hexagon unit.
It appears that there’s a pattern, where the total value of each hexagon is 18. The next step is to calculate the total number of hexagons, right? There are 90 hexagons, so the total accumulated value of the hexagons is 90 x 18, right? But it turns out the result is wrong. Why? Because there’s one impostor hexagon. Its value is different, the total sum in that hexagon is 16, not 18. An outlier.
Isn’t that a common thing in life? Not all conditions are the same and can be treated uniformly, right? There are several plot twists that make us stunned because we’re captivated by its deceit, and before our cognitive awareness can fully recover, we’ve already fallen into an error that we’ll deeply regret 🙏🏾.
We’ve fallen into a hole and need to take a bath again, of course. Is the experience of falling into a hole traumatic? It depends on how we manage and respond to it. Because even though it’s smelly, painful, and embarrassing, but falling into a hole is also funny, enjoyable to tell, and definitely can be a lesson for strategizing in the future, right?
