Steph has made me miss the days when I was bright and math was fun and easy and exciting.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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.
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 6:52:26 am PST #9592 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 6:54:57 am PST #9596 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.
Huh. There is debate on the subject:
ZERO TO THE ZERO POWER. Most textbook writers either leave 0^0 undefined, or state that it is undefined. Others say it should be defined as 1. Euler argued for 0^0 = 1; Cauchy considered it undefined. Most calculators give "error" for this expression, although some give "1."
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 6:57:02 am PST #9597 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
As Euler goes, so goes my nation.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 6:57:40 am PST #9598 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.
Ok, the Windows XP calculator says 0^0 is 1. What does the Mac OS X one say?
WindSparrow - Dec 13, 2005 6:59:29 am PST #9599 of 10003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I am procrastinating about getting dressed. Need to go to the store for eggs and bread, and also swing by work to sign a thing I forgot to sign when I filled it out. Don't wanna get dressed. On the other hand? I made soup this morning, in the crockpot. The one Daniel found in a free pile.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 6:59:45 am PST #9600 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.
This page is interesting [link]
This page attempts to show some of the ambiguities in defining some of the mathematical terms that might be encountered at the high school level. A number of these issues may seem quite trivial, and some are the result of consulting out-of-date texts. But many of these issues have led to disputed answers in mathematics competitions. Contributions and suggestions are welcome.
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2005 7:00:23 am PST #9601 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that 0^0=1 is one of those things where defining in that way makes a lot of theorems work out much more nicely; if 0^0 were anything but one, then a lot of theorems and proofs would be much less elegant.