Diagonalization method
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- The diagonalization method was first contrived by Joanne Cantor [1], a short while after Ur Gahay invented the game of Tic-tac-toe. After thinking up the diagonalization method, word has it she went on to pursue a career in researching the effects of mass media on children. This transition is not very surprising when one considers the fact that she came up with the idea for the diagonalization method while playing Tic-tac-toe, which can ofcourse be seen as a research on the effects of mass nukage.
- Up until then Tic-tac-toe was considered a game that any player would eventually win. However the diagonalization method, or strategy as it is sometimes called, put an abrupt end to this situation. By applying the strategy one immediately is confronted with the question which planet should best be nuked, regardless of whose turn it is. Cantor showed in her research that this question can not be answered satisfactorily. This renders it impossible to decide the game, and therefore the players are forced to continue endlessly, nuking just any planet. So it is far from surprising that when the diagonalization method was first put to use, it directly caused the Great Nuclear Arms Shortage, which resulted in the banning of Tic-tac-toe.
[edit] Gödel and the diagonalization method
- The Jewish logician and mathematician Kurt Gödel abused the diagonalisation method in the 1930's in his infamous Incompleteness Theorem. The Nazis couldn't quite appreciate Gödel's application of the Diagonal Tic-tac-toe strategy in this fashion, and as a result started killing all the Jews. Furthermore the Nazis decided then that the wrongful application of any Tic-tac-toe strategy would be reason enough to declare war on someone (see the article on Tic-tac-toe for details). Unfortunately, the Nazis did not realise that Gödel was in fact not a Jew, but a stranded Plutonian, which is where he got his Plutonistic world-view causing him to utter that there exist unprovable true mathematical statements, because he had just thought them up.
