Yeah, but the math in the show is like a McGyver math. It might make you say, Huh, cool when they explain some theory, but it's chosen to be cool with no knowledge on your part (Me, I'm a math hater from way back). You don't actually have to understand how to use the gum wrapper and the nail clipper to make a bazooka to enjoy waching McG do it.
Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Feb 15, 2005 3:57:14 pm PST #7972 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2005 4:09:37 pm PST #7973 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They don't explain very much at all. So far it's been on the level of "I used an equation, and I think that it will/did happen this way." Then they draw some pictures, scribble fast, but it's easily blurred.
It's an okay show.
aurelia - Feb 15, 2005 4:09:43 pm PST #7974 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Speaking of math (sort of) I never received W-2s or 1099s from three employers.
Strix - Feb 15, 2005 4:14:23 pm PST #7975 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
They're supposed to have them in the mail on 1/31. So if you call, you can harass them safely.
And yeah, Numbers doesn't really inbolve math. It's like, a hot guy occasionally mentioning the word "equations" and a whiteboard. It doesn't even make me twitch.
EDIT
Huh. Medium is based on a "real likfe research medium" named Allison Dubois.
I didn't know it was supposed to be based in RL.
msbelle - Feb 15, 2005 4:20:47 pm PST #7976 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am still in love with Luke in that complete love of secret fictional boyfriends. However, I would very much like to have my very own Logan. For his complete ease with himself and unabashed confidence may be the singlemost sexy thing on tv right now, in combination with his smirky smile that is.
GG has officially made me boycrazy, even with the crying and the sadness and hopelessly alone forever thoughts.
Emily - Feb 15, 2005 4:20:48 pm PST #7977 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Wait, they used P=NP? ... how?
Folks, I give up. Any perl people out there? I've got a bunch of expressions which may occur in the text but may have linebreaks in them at random (well, word-boundary) points. How do I match them?
Strix - Feb 15, 2005 4:21:33 pm PST #7978 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
As an unsolvable problem the math dude was obsessed with as escapsim from RL.
Emily - Feb 15, 2005 4:26:53 pm PST #7979 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh. Well, that works okay.
Tom Scola - Feb 15, 2005 4:30:05 pm PST #7980 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Emily, you want to change any spaces in your regular experssions with "\\s", (or probably "\\s+"). Backslash-S will match any whitespace character, including a line break. Also, make sure you include an "s" after the regex.
So, $x =~ /this is a test/ will match the string "this is a test"
but, $x =~ /this\\s+is\\s+a\\s+test/s match the phrase "this is a test" even if it has line breaks in it.
Betsy HP - Feb 15, 2005 4:52:14 pm PST #7981 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Well, we don't know it's unsolvable. Just unsolven.