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Post by znntqkumxh on Jan 6, 2014 4:46:14 GMT
Could be. Everybody's got a favorite number. I'm pretty boring though, mine is 7. Mine is 0.  |
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Post by polioman on Jan 6, 2014 4:47:42 GMT
Could be. Everybody's got a favorite number. I'm pretty boring though, mine is 7. Mine is 0. Mine is 10. I'm almost, if not just as boring as you. |
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Post by fwip on Jan 6, 2014 5:46:50 GMT
I like 12, 24, and 45.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 6, 2014 6:27:45 GMT
Could be. Everybody's got a favorite number. I'm pretty boring though, mine is 7. Mine is 0. You know, that's an answer I have never heard before. What about it appeals to you? |
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Post by Gulby on Jan 6, 2014 8:08:52 GMT
(Mine is 3, for OCD reasons most. Yeah. Pretty boring too.)
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Post by thedoctor on Jan 6, 2014 8:43:21 GMT
I think that if Annie hasn't been harmed physically the first time she met Jeanne, it is because as Muut said, she isn't able to cross the river. One side only is safe, the forest's one. That's why fairies Red and Blue are not to be worried, as for Ysengrin. But Annie, for some reason, do seem to have some attractive power towards etherical beings. That should explain why Jeanne was able, through the ether only, to cross the river to come and make the cheek's cut. Pure speculation, though. And I'm with those who thought SPAAAAAACE before noticing that it was a small scale and probably a camera being cut. The blade, for me, is Jeanne's. And I go for the "let's do some (scouting ? tracking ? the translator isn't clear on that point... T_T I'm soooo weak.), throw a camera down there and see what happens !". I can't wait 'til monday. Want more. You'd want scouting for that particular context; tracking implies that something was there, isn't any longer, but left some tracks, while you scout for something that's still around. Take as an example the beginning of the Two Towers movie, where Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli are chasing down the orcs; Legolas runs up on a high hill and scouts ahead, looking around and seeing the uruk-hai running away with Merry and Pippin. Later, when they come across the burned bodies of the uruk-hai, Aragorn does some (incredibly impressive) tracking to figure out what happened to the hobbits during the attack. Of course, this is all assuming you've watched the Lord of the Rings movies. If you haven't what are you doing reading this? GO WATCH NOW! Hope this somewhat long-winded explanation helps. |
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Post by thedoctor on Jan 6, 2014 8:44:04 GMT
Also, my favorite number is 8; you can write it forever!
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Post by Gulby on Jan 6, 2014 8:51:11 GMT
It helps very much and WHO DO YOU THINK I AM MAN ?! OF COURSE I've seen LoTR !!!  In long version ! And original version, please, with french subtitles ! xD AND I've seen the two Hobbit movies in theater while I don't bother anymore the people in there ! Exceptions, you know. (But I should re-read the books, every books, when I could find some time to do so.) |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Jan 6, 2014 9:05:04 GMT
Also, my favorite number is 8; you can write it forever! Yes! Mine is 6, so I can do that too! |
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Post by thedoctor on Jan 6, 2014 9:06:52 GMT
It helps very much and WHO DO YOU THINK I AM MAN ?! OF COURSE I've seen LoTR !!! In long version ! And original version, please, with french subtitles ! xD AND I've seen the two Hobbit movies in theater while I don't bother anymore the people in there ! Exceptions, you know. (But I should re-read the books, every books, when I could find some time to do so.) Well...I didn't know how popular they were in France...Sorry...  Also, I'm pretty sure my little brother has actually set a goal for himself to reread those books every year; I've reread them several times, but I'm definitely not on that level. Have fun with your reread whenever you get around to it! |
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Post by znntqkumxh on Jan 6, 2014 12:03:00 GMT
Mine is 0. You know, that's an answer I have never heard before. What about it appeals to you? Oh, zero is the most fantastic number! If it's added it does nothing! How great isn't that?! And if it's a factor IT'S ZERO! Almost even better!!  A zero to a mathematician is what love, sex and a happy civil-union/marriage is to ordinary folks! |
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Post by lordofpotatoes on Jan 6, 2014 18:38:02 GMT
You know, that's an answer I have never heard before. What about it appeals to you? Oh, zero is the most fantastic number! If it's added it does nothing! How great isn't that?! And if it's a factor IT'S ZERO! Almost even better!! A zero to a mathematician is what love, sex and a happy civil-union/marriage is to ordinary folks! Are you saying marriage is worth zero...? |
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Post by znntqkumxh on Jan 6, 2014 18:56:29 GMT
Oh, zero is the most fantastic number! If it's added it does nothing! How great isn't that?! And if it's a factor IT'S ZERO! Almost even better!! A zero to a mathematician is what love, sex and a happy civil-union/marriage is to ordinary folks! Are you saying marriage is worth zero...? I'm saying zero about worth.  You know what else you can do with a zero? You can divide by it and get the point at infinity! |
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Post by kalechibki on Jan 6, 2014 20:10:25 GMT
Are you saying marriage is worth zero...? I'm saying zero about worth. You know what else you can do with a zero? You can divide by it and get the point at infinity! As a married Mathematician, married to another mathematician...I completely agree! Seriously, the history of Zero is pretty awesome. Zero is such a big deal - the idea that you can have nothing seems simple today, but it hasn't always been - that when it was added, it added it's own classification of numbers. Here's what I mean: Counting Numbers - 1, 2, 3, 4, ... Whole Numbers - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... Intergers - -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... Rational Numbers - any number that can be expressed as m/n, where m and n are integers Irrational Numbers - any non-repeating, non-terminating decimal (pi, e, etc) Real - the union of Rational and Irrational Numbers. Complex - Real numbers with a imaginary component. See, whole numbers - the addition of Zero not only gives us the classification, but also gives us the ability to have negative numbers (aka debt!), and then the rest of the number systems come into being from them. (Go give your brain a work out...go look up Peano's Axioms*. Adding 1 + 1 to get 2 is a ten line proof (if I remember my college days correctly), but also gives you the basis for our whole system of modern mathematics). And then to infinity - again, what today every school child can claim knowledge of - took from the Ancient Greek's time to the 16th Century to get. This is why calculus took forever to be invented - we had no concept of infinity. The Greeks understood that things could be broken down into very small pieces (the atom is their idea), but it always had a finite end. It took Newton and Leibniz to make this awesome idea work.  * Note: The axiom's as I was introduced to them can mostly closely be found here. However, as Wikipedia notes, Peano's original axioms started with 1, not 0. Why start with zero? Because mathematician's are really lazy and it's a LOT harder starting with 1 to find 0 then it is to start with 0 and find 1. It can be done. |
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Post by warrl on Jan 6, 2014 21:06:46 GMT
Also, my favorite number is 8; you can write it forever! Only if you either lie on your side or turn the paper sideways. See, whole numbers - the addition of Zero not only gives us the classification, but also gives us the ability to have negative numbers (aka debt!), and then the rest of the number systems come into being from them. (Go give your brain a work out...go look up Peano's Axioms*. Adding 1 + 1 to get 2 is a ten line proof (if I remember my college days correctly), but also gives you the basis for our whole system of modern mathematics). And then to infinity - again, what today every school child can claim knowledge of - took from the Ancient Greek's time to the 16th Century to get. This is why calculus took forever to be invented - we had no concept of infinity. The Greeks understood that things could be broken down into very small pieces (the atom is their idea), but it always had a finite end. It took Newton and Leibniz to make this awesome idea work. A whole lot of the development of mathematics consists of: 1. come up with a concept 2. invent a way of writing it down 3. see if the way you wrote it has any interesting/useful behaviors 4. loop back to any of the preceding steps and repeat Zero, negative numbers, fractions, decimal fractions,.... |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 7, 2014 7:41:36 GMT
I like zero becuase it doesn't play nice with other numbers. It's kind of like infinity, but you can still do stuff with it, so it's like Infinity Lite. ∞/∞ doesn't equal one, and neither does 0/0, but while ∞-∞ doesn't equal zero, 0-0 does.
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Post by sidhekin on Jan 7, 2014 8:05:26 GMT
Well, sorta. ∞*1 does equal ∞, and 0*1 does equal 0, so you could say ∞/∞ is one, as is 0/0. Sorta.
But then, ∞*14 does equal ∞, and 0*14 does equal 0, so you could say ∞/∞ is 14, as is 0/0 ... and likewise any other number. Sorta.
But since 14 doesn't equal 1, you could say ∞/∞ doesn't equal 1 ... sorta. :-P
Subtraction is another matter entirely.
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Post by thedoctor on Jan 7, 2014 11:48:51 GMT
Hey you kids! Get your math outta my comic strip forum!  Also, kalechibi, that's an awesome picture |
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Post by warrl on Jan 7, 2014 16:11:25 GMT
Well, sorta. ∞*1 does equal ∞, and 0*1 does equal 0, so you could say ∞/∞ is one, as is 0/0. Sorta. But then, ∞*14 does equal ∞, and 0*14 does equal 0, so you could say ∞/∞ is 14, as is 0/0 ... and likewise any other number. Sorta. But since 14 doesn't equal 1, you could say ∞/∞ doesn't equal 1 ... sorta. :-P Subtraction is another matter entirely. Technically, X/0 when X=/=0 is *undefined* but 0/0 is *indeterminate*. (Why? Because if X/Y = Z, then Y*Z = X... and when X and Y are both zero, *every* possible value for Z fits that requirement; whereas if only Y is zero, *no* value for Z fits.) In real-number terms, *any* expression involving ∞ - with the exception of multiplying or dividing by 0, and ∞ is clearly not equal to 0 - is indeterminate. Transfinite mathematics is its own special and confusing field. Among other things, X*Y = Max(X,Y) |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 7, 2014 21:57:19 GMT
Could be. Everybody's got a favorite number. I'm pretty boring though, mine is 7. Mine is 0. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet. I like zero because it is the only number with an infinite number of integer factors. And I am also partial to e. And tau. |
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Post by warrl on Jan 7, 2014 22:44:42 GMT
Mine is 0. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet. I like zero because it is the only number with an infinite number of integer factors. And I am also partial to e. And tau. There's something to be said for i, of course. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Jan 8, 2014 0:12:06 GMT
I've always rather liked  |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 8, 2014 3:47:50 GMT
I've always rather liked You just went full plebeian. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Jan 8, 2014 5:28:40 GMT
You just went full plebeian. 'K |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Jan 8, 2014 10:37:07 GMT
And I am also partial to e. And tau. So.. no pie for you? |
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Post by nightwind on Jan 8, 2014 14:19:33 GMT
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Post by zimmyhoo on Jan 8, 2014 18:43:16 GMT
And I am also partial to e. And tau. So.. no pie for you? I'll take a tau pie. 'Cause a pi pie is not enough pie for anybody. |
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 8, 2014 22:37:07 GMT
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In long version ! And original version, please, with french subtitles ! xD AND I've seen the two Hobbit movies in theater while I don't bother anymore the people in there ! Exceptions, you know. (But I should re-read the books, every books, when I could find some time to do so.)
