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Evo said:No one brings me chocolate.
Alright, what can you teach me? :tongue:
Evo said:No one brings me chocolate.
Optical Networking. I know, not as much fun as biology. :grumpy:SpaceTiger said:Alright, what can you teach me? :tongue:
Evo said:Optical Networking. I know, not as much fun as biology. :grumpy:
Hey, I am a decent portrait artist. I could draw your picture in return for chocolate.
Alrighty Then!SpaceTiger said:Both of those things would be acceptable. I don't even know what optical networking is, so I suppose there's a lot to learn.
Now you're <snorfing> as well as <snorting>? Is that a typo, or are you developing an accent?Evo said:mmmf, *chomp*, snorf
Not to worry. Moonie always asks for a bribe just in case you're unfamiliar with her reputation, but it certainly isn't necessary.SpaceTiger said:Hey! I was saving that for biology lessons!
Bah, now I'll have to settle for learning philosophy or something.
What's the superlative form of understatement?Evo said:Of course Moonbear is a *bit* more knowledgeable in that field.
Now, now, darling... you know I'd bring you all the chocolate you wanted, but I don't want to give you any ideas. It's poisonous to dogs, you know.Evo said:No one brings me chocolate.
Evo said:Hey, biology was one of my strongest subjects. :tongue2: Of course Moonbear is a *bit* more knowledgeable in that field.
Ok, I didnt eat them all. (puts the leftover chocolate back)
No one brings me chocolate.
Well, it's consistant that the thread went off topic.mattmns said:Hmm I saw the large number of posts and I thought this turned into some deep philosophical discussion about what 0/0 really is. Then I remembered it was GD
Sorry Euphoriet, guess you will not find a consistant answer here either. I personally think, who cares? Call it whatever you want
And bloody lucky to get that many despite our best efforts.Euphoriet said:and come to find a three post response to the actual topic hahaha.
Euphoriet said:What the hell happen to my thread? I left for a while..and come back to this.. hahah I see it's three pages long so I expected a long debate of three pages and come to find a three post response to the actual topic hahaha.
Division by zero is an operation for which you cannot find an answer, so it is disallowed.
Ivan Seeking said:How about illegal? immoral? despicable? contemptible?
This would've made someone happy !Moonbear said:That's it! Dividing 0 by 0 is immoral. :rofl:
SpaceTiger said:Fools, all of you.
0/0 = 42
Point, game, match...SpaceTiger.
Not so cliched that anyone knows what it means. Barely anyone even knows this is a Lewis Carroll reference, let alone what the question is (Douglas Addams gives a hint in his book, not the answer).franznietzsche said:*sigh*
Really, its almost clichéd by this point.
mattmns said:I knew dividing by zero was a sin, I bet it even says it in the bible.
Hurkyl said:Ugh. Talk about going off on a tangent...
kaos said:how does the 0 to the power of 0 will be 1. wouldn't it be 0?
i am a maths and science noob tho.
I hadn't a clue about Lewis Carroll. I only know from the books that although 42 was the correct answer, they had asked the wrong question. Please elucidate. (even on PM if you don't want to alter reality in the thread)BobG said:Barely anyone even knows this is a Lewis Carroll reference, let alone what the question is (Douglas Addams gives a hint in his book, not the answer).
No! Then I'd spend the rest of my life doing it! I have other plans!BobG said:And if we're voting on it, I say we make division by zero immoral.
There's a part where Alice starts doing weird arithmetic saying the '4 times tables' but seemingly getting it it all wrong. She also says something like "at this rate, I'll never reach 20".Danger said:I hadn't a clue about Lewis Carroll. I only know from the books that although 42 was the correct answer, they had asked the wrong question. Please elucidate.
Gokul43201 said:There's a part where Alice starts doing weird arithmetic saying the '4 times tables' but seemingly getting it it all wrong. She also says something like "at this rate, I'll never reach 20".
The reason the multiplication that Alice is doing is not wrong is because she is not working in base 10. Each line of her tables is in a different base (chosen from some nice sequence with differences of 3). Following the sequence, you get 4*10=17 (base 33), 4*11=18 (base 36), 4*12 = 19 (base 39) and so, you'd expect 4*13=20 (base 42). But alas ! The correct answer, base 42, will be 1A. So her tables will never see a 20 in the answer !
Lewis Carroll used the number 42 constantly in his books because he was addicted to Physics Forum and 42 is the answer to all of PF's important questions.Danger said:I hadn't a clue about Lewis Carroll. I only know from the books that although 42 was the correct answer, they had asked the wrong question. Please elucidate. (even on PM if you don't want to alter reality in the thread)
liz said:would anyone care to explain what indeterminate and undefined mean exactly and why the obviously very significant difference is?
I never knew that! Thanks Gokul.Gokul43201 said:There's a part where Alice starts doing weird arithmetic saying the '4 times tables' but seemingly getting it it all wrong. She also says something like "at this rate, I'll never reach 20".
The reason the multiplication that Alice is doing is not wrong is because she is not working in base 10. Each line of her tables is in a different base (chosen from some nice sequence with differences of 3). Following the sequence, you get 4*10=17 (base 33), 4*11=18 (base 36), 4*12 = 19 (base 39) and so, you'd expect 4*13=20 (base 42). But alas ! The correct answer, base 42, will be 1A. So her tables will never see a 20 in the answer !