I'm glad your dad is home, Steph.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Burrell - Oct 11, 2007 11:37:16 am PDT #9410 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Hil R. - Oct 11, 2007 11:39:56 am PDT #9411 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm trying to figure out what I do for multiplication. 36 * 24. 20*36 is 72 with a 0 at the end, so 720. 25 * 36 is 720 plus half of 360, so that's 720 + 180, which is 900. Then subtract 36 to get 864. But that was all with numbers that I knew a bunch about.
31 * 58. 31 * 100 is 31000. Half of that is 31 * 50, so 31 * 50 is 15500. Then 31 * 8 is 248, so 31 * 58 is 15748.
Huh. So I think what method I use depends on what the numbers are.
erikaj - Oct 11, 2007 11:40:30 am PDT #9412 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Man, I suppose I need to start watching Numbers...what, was Richard Schiff busy?(Love him. Whitford, too) Because I love Brainy Jewish Guys. A lot.
Hil R. - Oct 11, 2007 11:42:13 am PDT #9413 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've tried watching Numb3rs. I got a little too eyerolly at the magical mystical mathematics, though. I really wanted to like that show.
Kathy A - Oct 11, 2007 11:53:30 am PDT #9414 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Delurking in Bitches to say Yay! for Teppy's dad-o'-steel.
Oh, and to say y'all are strange with your rounding ways of subtracting--it would never have occurred to me to do it that way! I just figure "52-37: Take the one from the 5, 12-7=5, 4 (from taking the 1 from the 5)-3=1, so 15." For multiplying, I can only do 2-digits times 2-digits; any more, and I need a piece of paper. "36 x 24: 4 times 6 is 24, put down the 4 and carry the 2, 3 times 4 is 12 plus the 2 = 144; 2 times 36 is 72, add a 0 at the end since it's the 2nd digit over = 720 plus 144 = 864."
Toddson - Oct 11, 2007 11:55:51 am PDT #9415 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
yay for Teppy's father ... and for her. Coddle yourself this weekend.
vw bug - Oct 11, 2007 11:56:29 am PDT #9416 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I have always added and subtracted using my fingers. I learned in 6th grade that this was a bad thing, so now I can do it without actually moving my fingers.
Hil R. - Oct 11, 2007 11:57:48 am PDT #9417 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
"52-37: Take the one from the 5, 12-7=5, 4 (from taking the 1 from the 5)-3=1, so 15." For multiplying, I can only do 2-digits times 2-digits; any more, and I need a piece of paper. "36 x 24: 4 times 6 is 24, put down the 4 and carry the 2, 3 times 4 is 12 plus the 2 = 144; 2 times 36 is 72, add a 0 at the end since it's the 2nd digit over = 720 plus 144 = 864."
It really would have never occured to me to do arithmetic in my head by using the pencil and paper algorithm. That's really interesting.
Glamcookie - Oct 11, 2007 12:02:40 pm PDT #9418 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
ignoring scary-ass math talk
The Key West Literary Seminar
So jealous! I love love love Key West, and that seminar sounds great.
Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2007 12:03:03 pm PDT #9419 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sighhh... someone tell me not to read Salon letters.