You is a free man?
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Dana - Jun 29, 2009 11:57:07 am PDT #26539 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Steph L. - Jun 29, 2009 11:58:11 am PDT #26540 of 30000
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
You is a free man?
Ahahahahaha!!!
Well played.
Gudanov - Jun 29, 2009 11:59:26 am PDT #26541 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
i is not a number!
It is an imaginary one.
Steph L. - Jun 29, 2009 12:01:37 pm PDT #26542 of 30000
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
i is not a number!
It is an imaginary one.
Noooooooo!!! Not any kind of number!
Leave the letters alooooooooone!!!!!!
(Okay, imaginary numbers are kind of cool, but in high school I was really dogmatic and knee-jerk in my dislike of them.)
(And I still don't understand how *imaginary* numbers work in *real* application.)
DavidS - Jun 29, 2009 12:07:13 pm PDT #26543 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(And I still don't understand how *imaginary* numbers work in *real* application.)
It's the only way you can measure a unicorn's horn.
tommyrot - Jun 29, 2009 12:08:47 pm PDT #26544 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
(And I still don't understand how *imaginary* numbers work in *real* application.)
They're very useful in electronics.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 29, 2009 12:08:53 pm PDT #26545 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm with Steph WRT the practical applications-- if it is imaginary and not real, how does it help us make a curve in real life? Or what have you...
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2009 12:10:25 pm PDT #26546 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
(And I still don't understand how *imaginary* numbers work in *real* application.)
Because i2 is a real number. Also this.
Gudanov - Jun 29, 2009 12:10:30 pm PDT #26547 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
And I still don't understand how *imaginary* numbers work in *real* application.
I don't remember very well. I think you can use them to introduce a new dimension to a calculation. I believe one example is introducing phase into the math of AC electrical circuits.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2009 12:12:18 pm PDT #26548 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, that's the example Wikipedia gives.