What is the purpose of base eight?
I will be useful if we ever have to do math with cartoon characters or eight-fingered aliens.
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Dec 13, 2005 6:43:22 am PST #9586 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2005 6:44:38 am PST #9587 of 10003
brillig
There's a house on a bus route in Salt Lake City that I call the binary house. Its number is 10101.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 6:44:51 am PST #9588 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Whoo! You're good, Steph. (Although, my mathiness wishes point out, 1 is in fact a power of two, because anything raised to the 0 power is 1. But I know what you mean.)
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 6:45:56 am PST #9589 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Thanks for the Christmas calendar Ginger!
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 6:48:28 am PST #9590 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
anything raised to the 0 power is 1.
Even 0?
How about a cat?
(Actually, 0^0 =1, right? God, my memory sucks.)
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:50:59 am PST #9591 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Man, I'm nerdy. But thanks, nice mathy peoples!
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 6:52:26 am PST #9592 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph has made me miss the days when I was bright and math was fun and easy and exciting.
Ginger - Dec 13, 2005 6:53:36 am PST #9593 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
You're welcome, Gud.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 13, 2005 6:53:46 am PST #9594 of 10003
What is even happening?
Teppy, did you just need to understand for curiosity's sake, or do you have a situation that is requiring you to get this mathy (and should we smite it for you, if you do)?
Jen - Dec 13, 2005 6:54:05 am PST #9595 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Actually, 0^0 =1, right
I will *never* understand this, or the idea that 0*0 = 1.
So you've got some nothing. You raise it to the power of nothing (or multiply it by nothing), effectively giving nothing even more nothing. Suddenly you've got something? Where did it come from!? Dear God, WHERE?
This is why I'm not a creationist, isn't it?