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Yes, phones are killers on the road.
Right now, I manage 20 miles in about 1 hour and change; by the end of the month I hope to have a small apartment about four blocks away from my work.
I have seen four lane changers, thread the needlers (cross across all lanes of traffic from one side of the street to the other), stop light stalkers (they stop car lengths from the light, then creep up on it - I guess they hope to surprise it) and drivers with the reflexes of dead turtles.
I wish I was back in Alaska, where driving was fun and all you worried about was the occasional moose or rock slide....
An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: stop light stalkers
Yes, I've noticed those a lot too. So annoying. Also, have you noticed then that the cell phone zombies are indignant when you <beep beep> nicely?
They don't like to be broken out of their trance.
Crazy driver waving cell phone: Stop bothering me with driving laws (written and unwritten)!!!
stoneyowl2 wrote: drivers with the reflexes of dead turtles
Great summary of the situation.
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A repost of sorts also
2 guxinto 4 ... 2 times
3 guzinto 9 ... 3 times
and so til I run out a fingers and toes.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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..is a total of 10 guzinto 35. Do you want stamps with that?
Weird. Usually you want tree-fiddy
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If I start doing fractions I'll have to lose digits.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: and so til I run out a fingers and toes. an teef.
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Representing numbers without using numbers.
3 - tree
33 - Dirty Tree
33,3 - Dirty tree and a turd.
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Mike Hankey wrote: 2 guxinto 4 ... 2 times
3 guzinto 9 ... 3 times
Following that pattern, I think you just ran out of letters!
Marc
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TRUE MATH
Try to prove it...
1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... (and goes for the infinity) = 1/2
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Curious and grandi'ous at the same time
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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If I remember correctly, it has something to do with the way that sums/series work when dealing with infinities. I don't remember exactly how it reduces, but I remember my mind being moderately blown the first time it was explained to me.
Now, my attempt, as I think about right now, would be to reduce it to an infinite series of the sum of one minus one:
(1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ....
Which would of course reduce to 0 + 0 + 0 + ... = 0...
I know this is wrong (because I've not correctly applied whatever rule leads to the 1/2 answer,) but from a straightforward idiot's logic approach, it makes sense.
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Let S = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1... , then 1 - S = 1 - (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1...) . This simplifies to 1 - S = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1... . This means 1 - S = S which is simplified to 1 = 2S and finally S = 1/2 .
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Or
S = (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ... = 0
S = 1 - (1 - 1) - (1 - 1) - ... = 1
2S = 1
S = 1/2
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The traditional - and entirely wrong - approach is:
G = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + ...
1 - G = 1 - (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + ...)
= 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ...
= G
1 = 2G
1 / 2 = G
The correct answer is that the series doesn't have a sum in any meaningful sense.
Or, for the quantum-minded, the sum is both 0 and 1 at the same time.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: is not for sale Ya, thanks indeed!
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"This is not an actual product and is not for sale".
Whereas they're all over Amazon and you can actually buy them.
"Thanks" indeed.
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1+1=3 for larger values of 1.
I'd rather be phishing!
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What the math is going on around here?
It's not Pi Day, after all.
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You guy making Math great again.
Bryian Tan
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