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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2004 10:11:06 GMT -5
It had to be one of us. On account of we're the only two posting in this thread.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 6, 2004 12:04:42 GMT -5
It had to be one of us. On account of we're the only two posting in this thread. Yeah, but if I were to do the probabilty, I'd have to add some other stuff in.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2004 12:12:54 GMT -5
To make it sound suitably complicated.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 6, 2004 12:24:55 GMT -5
Yeah, basically. Probabilty can get interesting.
Example: You'd think that the probability of toast landing on the carpet is 50%. As it turns out, there's tons of other stuff you have to add in. It's crazy.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2004 12:27:09 GMT -5
Yeah, and if you flip a coin ten times, you're more likely to get six of one face and four of the other rather than both fives, for some crazy reason.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 6, 2004 12:36:51 GMT -5
It's probability, what can I say. It's all kinda odd.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2004 12:39:04 GMT -5
Yeah. Which is why I like it. I like to think that nothing is impossible, but some things are extremely improbable, a view which I think I got from Douglas Adams, although it's been so long since I read the "trilogy" that I've forgotten...
I think that there's something in Quantum Mechanics that backs that up, though.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 6, 2004 12:47:53 GMT -5
Oh, probably.
Note on Douglas Adams...well, the trilogy: My earlier number, "2276,709 to one against", is directly from Hitchhiker's Guide.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2004 13:35:01 GMT -5
For a guy who came up with the name of his book while lying drunk in a field, Douglas Adams is pretty inventive.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 6, 2004 16:19:17 GMT -5
True, true. Doesn't he also have a math degree?
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Post by Dante on Sept 7, 2004 3:37:26 GMT -5
I don't have the faintest idea. All I know is that he also wrote two Dirk Gently novels, and died while writing the third. I remember those two books being very, very confusing... And clever, of course.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 7, 2004 17:32:13 GMT -5
I don't have the faintest idea. All I know is that he also wrote two Dirk Gently novels, and died while writing the third. I remember those two books being very, very confusing... And clever, of course. I read one, but I wasn't aware of the book, so I need toe re-read it. I'm pretty sure he had a math degree. It has to do with the fact that mulitplying six by nine does get you 42, if you're working in base thirteen.
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Post by Dante on Sept 8, 2004 11:02:23 GMT -5
I read one, but I wasn't aware of the book, so I need toe re-read it. I'm pretty sure he had a math degree. It has to do with the fact that mulitplying six by nine does get you 42, if you're working in base thirteen. Heh. Crazy bases. And the Dirk Gently ones are clever. They're also way more confusing than the Hitch-Hiker trilogy (as I call it).
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Sept 8, 2004 18:29:40 GMT -5
Yeah, but my brain is so randomly connected that confusing and random make a lot of sense.
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Post by Dante on Sept 9, 2004 12:50:25 GMT -5
I must admit that it has been several years since I read them, and reading something like Dirk Gently when you're 11, 12 would probably be very confusing. I should reread them. They'll probably make more sense the second time round - just like the Unauthorised Autobiography.
Hey, September 8th was yesterday. Has the poll closed now?
Edit: New page! Hey, my statment about the date the poll closes that mentions the date specifically comes exactly two pages after yours. Freaky.
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