so their proof has to do with comparing two lines of different length
So they did their algebra through some sort of a geometric language, you mean?
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
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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.
Nilly - Sep 22, 2005 7:20:15 am PDT #9929 of 10002
Swouncing
msbelle - Sep 22, 2005 7:38:31 am PDT #9930 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
mmmm Clooney.
back to work.
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2005 7:53:06 am PDT #9931 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, appointment had been made for this afternoon at a really good optometrist. So I get to avoid Jilli-pokeage.
Emily - Sep 22, 2005 7:56:22 am PDT #9932 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, they didn't really have algebra, is the thing. They had "number" -- which meant positive integers -- and "magnitude" -- which was lines and shapes and things you could measure by hand -- and the two probably overlapped but were certainly not the same thing. So the square root of two wasn't actually a number, but it was a magnitude, and it was proved incommensurable (irrational) by performing operations with other lines.
I think. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it all, while also trying to keep up with "If a straight line is cut into equal and unequal segments, the rectangle contained by the unequal segments of the whole together with the square on the straight line between the points of seccion is equal to the square on the half."
Frankenbuddha - Sep 22, 2005 7:56:29 am PDT #9933 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So I get to avoid Jilli-pokeage.
contemplates unfortunate phraseology
pauses
clears throat
considers
begins whistling tunelessly
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 7:57:30 am PDT #9934 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. I think I threw out my mascara. I need mascara. Do I go to the drugstore during lunch, or do I sprint to Sephora at the mall on my way home and eat up precious getting-ready minutes?
Jesse - Sep 22, 2005 8:04:28 am PDT #9935 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is Great Lash still the go-to mascara? I'd guess it's at least good enough, for sure.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 8:06:44 am PDT #9936 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's drugstore mascara? I swear, I've never finished a tube of mascara. Lip gloss is about the only makeup I finish before I decide I should toss them for health or diminished quality reasons.
I keep meaning to femme it up.
And then I get distracted.
msbelle - Sep 22, 2005 8:12:20 am PDT #9937 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I use great lash. go drugstore, choose drug store. You can't risk getting ready minutes.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2005 8:12:52 am PDT #9938 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, Great Lash is Maybelline. I should really buy new mascara, because I never throw mine out for health reasons. And I don't use it that often.