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I think I need a nap. -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:40
Wow, that bonus hax chat (the jealous sister) sounds somewhat familiar. - Stephen Mar 5, 13:37 2
- Bitches be crazy. -- nm - Diva Mar 5, 13:47
- have you tried hitting her a lot in the face? -- nm - TFox Mar 5, 13:39
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! - Redmond on a phone Mar 5, 13:36 1
- Uh oh, we have our first confirmed case of math-rage. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:40
We were winning the battle until you stopped losing!!!!! - TWuG Mar 5, 13:35 4
- WTF is the France of Ikariam without the sense to have a white flag -- nm - Redmond on a phone Mar 5, 13:41 2
  - They're willing to fight to the death, in a system where the rules specifically don't include a "death" option. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:42 1
    - Fortunately it does include a "make an Alliance your bitch" option. -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 13:44
- I sent this as a response in ika. -- - b. Mar 5, 13:38
If you take a boston creme donut, and slice it into thirds, and then put the 3 slices together again ... do you have one donut? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:35 6
- the crumbs say no -- nm - Redmond on a phone Mar 5, 13:37
- Yes, but you can't cut a slice to = 0.333... because it's impossible. You can cut it to 1/3 though. - JaxSean Mar 5, 13:37 4
  - what you are saying means, as a corollary, that it is impossible to sum an infinite series to a whole number. - TFox Mar 5, 13:42 1
    - I was going to ask this. What's the proof that 1/3=0.333...? -- nm - Max Mar 5, 13:43
  - I say the answer is false either way - you still get bits of creme and chocolate on the knife -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:38 1
    - (Bery win) -- nm - TFox Mar 5, 13:38
JD, my real response is this: I don't think you're as ok with it all as you say you are. - pmb Mar 5, 13:33
Vets group makes video about energy. "And every time oil goes up a dollar, Iran gets another $1.5 billion to use against us." -- (link) - mara Mar 5, 13:31 [youtube] 3
- Good point. Let's drill here. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 5, 13:33 2
  - See, the problem with that is oil is fungible. The source is irrelevant so long as the demand is high. - TWuG Mar 5, 13:46
  - I don't mind drilling for my country -- nm - Redmond on a phone Mar 5, 13:38
OK, so, we all agree that 0.999 != 0.999..., right? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:28 7
- This debate is sorely lacking due to the absence of zunfrii -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 13:29 6
  - math has too many rules for him to weigh in in a meaningful fashion. -- nm - TFox Mar 5, 13:36 1
    - Which would make this discussion different in what way? - TWuG Mar 5, 13:37
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    - One doesn't realize how much they miss ethnobiological examinations of things until they're gone. -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 13:37 1
      - Our arguments are rather ignoble without his contribution. - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:43
  - indubitably. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:30
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- funny, she does not look like a sheep. - groiny Mar 5, 13:42
- hahah. f'in Steeler -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 5, 13:39 2
  - *Waits for the motorcycle head injury defense* - pmb Mar 5, 13:40 1
    - he's had so many headshots at this point it's impossible to tell where the just plain stupid begins and the concussion effects end -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 5, 13:43
- geesh - smoke? fire? - Epiphany Mar 5, 13:33 1
  - well, at least one of those sounds like a suitable punishment -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:34
- whoa. -- nm - Divruh Mar 5, 13:32 3
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    - yes - get some body guards and hire a call girl or three - damn! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 5, 13:38
    - I know! wtf? -- nm - Divruh Mar 5, 13:35
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Funny how credit scores and borrowing money works - ceregon Mar 5, 13:19 2
- If you really wanna game the system, get a 0% (intro) credit card, max it out and invest the cash. - Dr.Vermin Mar 5, 13:23 1
  - except that you are using 100% of your credit, and this will cause your credit score to go down -- nm - ceregon Mar 5, 13:30
So Cloverfield was ok, not great, but certainly worth it. Thanks for the recommendations. - Facto Mar 5, 13:19 6
- This is one that seeing it on the big screen really helped. -- nm - Spawn Mar 5, 13:32 1
  - I can imagine -- nm - Facto Mar 5, 13:34
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  - I have Hud on DVD, too. One of the 200+ I've bought but not yet seen. - Facto Mar 5, 13:29 2
    - But what about CHUD? -- nm - Spawn Mar 5, 13:32
    - Forgot to add, that case - Facto Mar 5, 13:31
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I borrow a dollar from Reagen one thousand times. 3 thousand times, I make payments to him of $0.33 and three dots on paper. - crash davis Mar 5, 13:17 2
- TANSTAAFL! -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 13:18
- fuzzy logic indeed the whole premise is flawed -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:18
Newsroom fight in Italian TV station caught live on camera. -- (link) - mara Mar 5, 13:16
Jax, we don't round. - Reagen Mar 5, 13:16 40
- Yes, you are. When you get to the root of it, you're saving time and rounding up. It's OK, Reagen. You're allowed to save time. - JaxSean Mar 5, 13:33 1
  - but look at the example I just posted. There's a difference. - Reagen Mar 5, 13:36
- well since noone ever calculated the real answer of adding two infinite numbers lets start with something easier - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:20
- but .999...=1 sure seems like rounding. It seems like as a practical matter to make math work, its users have declared that one thing equals another - Max Mar 5, 13:18 36
  - it's the fact that you don't stop that makes it = 1 and makes it not rounding. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 13:23 31
    - at some pont it has to stop - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:25 30
      - I think you may be missing something about the concept of infinity. -- nm - mara Mar 5, 13:26 8
        
        i doubt that ! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:31 6
        
        "At some point, infinity has to stop" is what it sounded like you were saying. -- nm - mara Mar 5, 13:32 5
        
        not infinity but the way we represent infinity :) - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:33 4
        
        The way we, humans, represent infinity in our limited physical capabilities is not important in mathematics -- nm - Guigue Mar 5, 13:42 3
        
        no??? ask Reagan about that - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:44 2
        
        We don't need to calculate it, we (human beings) invented the damn thing! And we decided that 0.999... is the same as 1 -- nm - Guigue Mar 5, 13:48 1
        
        thats my point exactly - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 14:10
        
        Exactly. People are trying to express infinity in a way they can physically understand - Guigue Mar 5, 13:29
      - that's what ... is for, to save us time. - Reagen Mar 5, 13:26 20
        
        exactly - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:30 18
        
        You're right that it's a tool, and the *...* is a tool used to write 1/3 for instance in decimal number - Guigue Mar 5, 13:34 7
        
        so 1.333... + 1.333... +1.333... is 4? - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:37 6
        
        Yes to your subject line, and "wtf?" to your IM -- nm - Guigue Mar 5, 13:38 5
        
        heh 3.999... -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:39 4
        
        well, 3.9999..... = 4, so... -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 13:40 3
        
        circular logic - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:43 2
        
        no, I'm saying that the two things you posted (once you had it correct) were identical. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 13:45 1
        
        Which we've been saying all along - Guigue Mar 5, 13:47
        
        It's not about precision, or stopping to save us time. Infinity means you don't stop, ever. - Reagen Mar 5, 13:32 9
        
        but since you CAN write an infinite number of "3" you would ever get to the 2nd factor of any calculation involving an infinite number - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:36 8
        
        I assume you mean "can't" but here's the thing - Reagen Mar 5, 13:39 2
        
        how do you know when you have not calculated it? - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:42 1
        
        I'm going to wait for the English translation on this one. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 13:43
        
        Uh, you CAN'T write an infinite number of 3s -- nm - Guigue Mar 5, 13:37 4
        
        exactly - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:38 2
        
        I give up, it's impossible to change your mind - Guigue Mar 5, 13:40 1
        
        oh no i never said that - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 14:11
        
        yes he can - don't try and stop him! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:38
        
        or maybe we could just help JD find out what the post limit is. -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:28
  - That .9 keeps trying, all the way out to infinity, to be 1. It can't ever be *exactly* 1.But for all practical purposes it is indistinguishable from 1 -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 13:20 2
    - I totally get that; but I will never say they're equal. -- nm - b. Mar 5, 13:35 1
      - Exactly. I think mathematicians are afraid to say it hurts their heads to think about infinity so the find a way of making infinity end. - TWuG Mar 5, 13:42
  - But the "users" (mathematicians) are the one who invented the *...*, they get to choose what it means -- nm - Guigue Mar 5, 13:20
You should pick the other door! -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:15
me is heading home early. - tRuMaN Mar 5, 13:14
TMI: I think I have a sinus infection. My snot smells disgusting. -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:14 7
- neti pot. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 5, 13:37
- If you can smell anything, you probably don't. - Spawn Mar 5, 13:31
- you know, my snot has never smelled great. -- nm - CQ Mar 5, 13:15 4
  - My snot doesn't usually smell at all, but now it smells putrid. -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:17 3
    - so you actively smell your own snot on different occasions? -- nm - CQ Mar 5, 13:18 2
      - How can you avoid smelling your snot? -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:19 1
        
        I don't really know. I've got nothing more here. heh -- nm - CQ Mar 5, 13:20
*stretches it out to infinity* -- nm - Inigo Mar 5, 13:13
On this day, ST will reinvent mathematics! -- nm - Guigue Mar 5, 13:12 8
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  - Well, I agree with Reagen -- (link) - Guigue Mar 5, 13:15 5
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    - I have a feeling it`s a weird joke. - Reagen Mar 5, 13:19 1
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    - Most professional mathematicians do. :-) -- nm - mara Mar 5, 13:16
- 1+1=Viking -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:13
St Poll: There can only be one Pie. What type of Pie would you vote for? - tRuMaN Mar 5, 13:11 16
- Warm apple pie with big scoop of good vanilla ice cream on it... -- nm - BAD Mar 5, 13:27
- key lime pie -- nm - ceregon Mar 5, 13:21 1
  - "ding" - I love Key Lime Pie -- nm - JenBro Mar 5, 13:44
- derby -- nm - peglegpete Mar 5, 13:17
- 1/3 apple 1/3 cherry 1/3 american -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:13 2
  - cheese? -- nm - Max Mar 5, 13:15 1
    - cheddar -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:18
- Boston creme, if it counts. -- nm - mara Mar 5, 13:13 1
  - I've never had boston creme pie. Only boston creme donuts. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:17
- π -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:12 2
  - that reminds me. I have a pi-related question. heh. - b. Mar 5, 13:26
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- Apple, of course. Actually, maybe pecan, if we can still have apple streudels and whatnot. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 5, 13:12
- nul -- nm - Spawn Mar 5, 13:12
- Cherry -- nm - Epiphany Mar 5, 13:12
- Lemon Meringue. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:11
.999.... = 1 is like Zeno's Paradox. -- nm - TWuG Mar 5, 13:10 6
- no that parados involves real physical reality and not just mathematical theory - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:13 3
  - No, that's math too, since in physical reality the arrow *does* reach the target. -- nm - mara Mar 5, 13:14 2
    - so in you'r world if i have 3 thirds i have not the whole? - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:16 1
      - You do. Which is precisely why .9repeating =1. -- nm - Reagen Mar 5, 13:25
- "If amanda isn't at Zeno's, does it exist?" -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:11 1
  - And when she leaves it ceases to exist. She is the focal point of the Universe. - TWuG Mar 5, 13:13
crash: base 2 is binary. Go ahead, express the concept of 1/3 in binary. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:10 16
- 01/11 -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:16 1
  - or 101/110 -- nm - The Exploding Dano Mar 5, 13:19
- ok. - tRuMaN Mar 5, 13:13
- this reads to me like you read the opposite of what I posted -- nm - crash davis Mar 5, 13:12 12
  - "you could never have an argument over what 1/3rd is in binary" ... yes, you can. It doesn't suddenly become rational. - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:13 10
    - the number 3 doesn't exist in binary, only 1 & 0 -- nm - crash davis Mar 5, 13:17 9
      - the number 3 in base 10 is the number 11 in binary -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:18 8
        
        base10 = dicimal and Hexadicimal is also 3 also 3 in octal system -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:21 1
        
        ooh, yes, I was forgetting about octal. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:26
        
        but then the argument would be what 1/11 is not what 1/3 is.... -- nm - crash davis Mar 5, 13:19 4
        
        I'm just trying to say, it's the exact same argument. Changing the base only changes the pictographs, not the values. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:23 2
        
        and I'm just trying to say a real simple joke went right over your head -- nm - crash davis Mar 5, 13:25 1
        
        oh. dang. sorry about that, then. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:27
        
        there is no decimal pont in binary it soes not excist -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 5, 13:22
        
        (and it's 3 in hexadecimal and base-60 as well) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:18
  - We are through the looking glass! -- nm - Spawn Mar 5, 13:13
I'd rather watch you dorks argue over the meaning of a Simpsons Quote than...math. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 5, 13:10 2
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  - Ah! - Mel Profit Mar 5, 13:32
Key Lie Pie. - Spawn Mar 5, 13:08 1
- *golf clap* -- nm - Beryllium Mar 5, 13:08

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