Go Emily! Woo-hoo!
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
What's Z4?
That should be Zsub4, but I'm lazy with the HTML. Basically, it's {0,1,2,3} with operations defined on it, so 2*2=0, 3+2=1, etc. So 2x+1 is, unless I'm mistaken, its own multiplicative inverse (that is, (2x+1)(2x+1)=1).
I had such high hopes for doing useful things today.
Oh well.
Perkins, could you e me your mailing address again? Thanks.
Sure. Insent in a minute.
For some reason, probably because I was searching for the infinity symbol in Word, I now have part of "My Hero, Zero" stuck in my head:
That's why with only ten digits including zero,
You can count as high as you could ever go...
Forever, towards infinity,
No one ever gets there, but you could tryyyyy.
For some reason, probably because I was searching for the infinity symbol in Word, I now have part of "My Hero, Zero" stuck in my head:
Oh, do I need to post that on Buffistarawk too? Probably works best with the equally abstruse "Hey Little Twelvetoes."
Forever, towards infinity,
No one ever gets there, but you could tryyyyy.
Emily, you've read "The Phantom Tollbooth", right?
Yes, but quite some time ago. I remember the Doldrums... did they get to infinity as well? Ooh! Have you read The House with a Clock in its Walls?
My one reservation with "My Hero, Zero" is that it seems to imply that until zero was invented it was impossible to count to ten.
From the cavemen till the heroes,
Who invented you,
They counted on their fingers and toes
But I suppose it's allowable license for the sake of the song. It lacks the elegant falling melody of "and three times three is nine and three times two is six and three times one of course, is three!" but it's still a landmark, in my opinion, of Songs About Numbers.
I remember the Doldrums... did they get to infinity as well?
No, they didn't, but Milo (the hero) tried. He didn't go all the way, of course.
Ooh! Have you read The House with a Clock in its Walls?
Nope, and am now curious.