'Dirty Girls'
[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.
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.
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.
I've tried watching Numb3rs. I got a little too eyerolly at the magical mystical mathematics, though. I really wanted to like that show.
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."
yay for Teppy's father ... and for her. Coddle yourself this weekend.
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.
"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.
ignoring scary-ass math talk
The Key West Literary Seminar
So jealous! I love love love Key West, and that seminar sounds great.
Sighhh... someone tell me not to read Salon letters.
Latest word from Paizo:
They have made their decision about who is moving on to the next stage, however their email system is down, so thay are unable to send out any notifications until it's fixed.