YAY for getting it!! WOO HOO!

you should not apologize or feel you have to.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

(If you live in London.)

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Joggers are today being warned about violent crows in London parks after an attack left a man bloodied and needing hospital treatment.

Justin Keay was swooped on by two crows in what experts have called a severe case of "mobbing" - where two or more birds gang up on an assumed predator to keep them away from their young.

Now other runners are being told to stay well away from fledgling crows to avoid further attacks.

Mr Keay today told how he was running his usual route through Battersea Park when the birds swooped on him. The crows clawed his head with their talons and pecked at him furiously.

With blood gushing from his head, he had to fight for several minutes before they would stop attack - reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds.

OK, they must be making this up:

Taking a ride on the sheep urine express

A British bus company believes it may have a secret weapon to cut pollution emissions -- sheep urine in the engine.

The Stagecoach company has fitted a bus in Winchester with a tank of sheep urine. The waste is sprayed into exhaust fumes to reduce emissions of harmful nitrous oxides, The Guardian reported Friday.

OKay, we came up with x=1/(1+sqrt(2)=sqrt(2)-1.

Trying A) x = [-2 +/- sqrt (4-4*1*-1)]/2 = -1 +/- sqrt(8)/2 = -1 + sqrt(2), so A works.

Not a pretty question.

I am enchanted by the math, but I do not know from whence it came.

so, I am at work, not doing work and no one else is really here and so it is quiet and peaceful and whatnot. That is nice. Natter is put put putting, though, yes? are people working? or not at work? or too bored to post?

I'm at work, not working, but was all caught up in doing math. And now I'm going home.

It was the math talk. It drove people away

I'm sulking because no one cares about the sheep urine bus.

Kidding.

I'm the only one here now. So no one will know if I go home early.

I have concocted a clever plan which relies upon this fact....

What I did to make it work, -t (like how I fold and spindle my sentence structure to avoid the hyphen at the beginning of the line?) is the following:

There's a bar vertically down the center which is 1 by x. There's another one horizontally which overlaps, so: x + x - x^2. Then you have the 4 triangle bits, each of which have a hypotenuse of x, so you could put them all together (hypotenuses out) to form a square of side x, so: 2x - x^2 + x^2 = 2x. So the only thing outside the octagon is four more little triangles which are exactly the same, so another x^2, and that fills out the original square, so: x^2 (outer triangles) + 2x (horizontal and vertical bars) = 1 (area of original square), so x^2 + 2x - 1 = 0.

More tangrams than geometry, but there you have it.