Gwydion Stone Report post Posted September 26, 2008 (that's MATH, not meth) If you're a bona fide, horn-rimmed-glasses-wearin', slide-rule-totin', function-fetishist, I need to hear from you asap. Also, ordinary mortals who are just really, really good at math may apply. Please PM me. I have an idiotic question. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elfnmagik Report post Posted September 26, 2008 After the chaff settles, do tell? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted September 26, 2008 I have an idiotic question. 42. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Legate Report post Posted September 26, 2008 Math Geek? I'm half way there. You sure know how to arouse interest. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scuto Report post Posted September 26, 2008 42. +1 No, wait... Ditto! Though Wm. S. Burroughs might say 23. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dakini_painter Report post Posted September 26, 2008 Probably something like this: Johnny has 42 pounds of wormwood he wants to sell. Jimmy wants to buy 3/5's, Debbie wants 1/3, and Teresa wants 14%. Debbie doesn't want to pay any more than Teresa, but she doesn't want to pay for any stems larger than 7 mm in diameter. Jimmy doesn't want to pay any more than $23/pound. How much does each person get, and what do they pay? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted September 26, 2008 Makes me happy I majored in poli-sci. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Misanthrope Report post Posted September 26, 2008 42. You have to figure out the question. Come back in 5 million years and I'll give you the answer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gwydion Stone Report post Posted September 26, 2008 Our crack team of accountants and financial consultants are now busily hammering away at the thorny problem of making the offline, printable score sheet work just like the online version, so folks don't have to log in and post a review in order to get a score. Thanks for playing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pan Buh Report post Posted September 27, 2008 Our crack team May explain a few things. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butch Onufrak Report post Posted September 27, 2008 The Meth team already solved the issue.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
biznacho Report post Posted September 27, 2008 The marijuana team forgot the question. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gwydion Stone Report post Posted September 28, 2008 What question? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OMG_Bill Report post Posted September 28, 2008 That's what I thought. A conspiracy! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Legate Report post Posted September 28, 2008 Hide Hiram's Makita. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cwlovell13 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 2 + 2 = 5 For extremely large values of 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rambus Report post Posted December 11, 2008 Well I see it's a little late but.. I'm a Computer Scientist if that helps pm if you still need help with your problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dakini_painter Report post Posted December 11, 2008 I went looking for my copy of "Introduction to Fuzzy Arithmetic" by I couldn't find it. But it's true that you can get 2+2=5, well a probability distribution where it is possible given fuzzy enough values for 2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rambus Report post Posted December 11, 2008 @Dakini_painter: Just last year I attended a talk by Lotfi Asker Zadeh. Never did take a class on fuzzy math though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dakini_painter Report post Posted December 12, 2008 That must have been pretty cool. I admit I never got to take a class on it, but I spent a lot of the money I earned at Computer Literacy. I got to hang out/work with some Lisp hackers doing cool AI software. I was the lowly C/Modula/Pascal programmer assigned to all the low level multi-machine .com software that they didn't want to do. I was always interested in just things but never got to write the code. I don't regret that life, but I prefer my artistic endeavors now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rambus Report post Posted December 12, 2008 Haha don't get me started on Lisp! I find it easier to program assembly then to do something complex in Lisp. I'll stick to my procedural OO languages thank you very much. I have the opposite story from you: I always grew up wanting to be an artist, and some how ended up in Computer Science. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smug simian Report post Posted December 16, 2008 (edited) (that's MATH, not meth) If you're a bona fide, horn-rimmed-glasses-wearin', slide-rule-totin', function-fetishist, I need to hear from you asap. Also, ordinary mortals who are just really, really good at math may apply. Please PM me. I have an idiotic question. I'm dying to hear the actual problem itself.......not really the specific coding problem (if you are trying to make a web form (???) that executes a function.......I just mean the math problem itself. You should post it........ Edited December 16, 2008 by smug simian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Le Gimp Report post Posted December 16, 2008 That must have been pretty cool. I admit I never got to take a class on it, but I spent a lot of the money I earned at Computer Literacy. I got to hang out/work with some Lisp hackers doing cool AI software. I was the lowly C/Modula/Pascal programmer assigned to all the low level multi-machine .com software that they didn't want to do. I was always interested in just things but never got to write the code. I don't regret that life, but I prefer my artistic endeavors now. Only if you consider a shag rug to be fuzzy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Hallenius Report post Posted December 16, 2008 I had a LISP once... and the woman I was dating at the time never seemed to mind... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted December 16, 2008 You breathed through your ears, too, I'll bet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Hallenius Report post Posted December 18, 2008 I'll never tell, but I will admit that occasionally I had to say, "Let go of my ears, I know what I'm doing!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bluewolf Pete Report post Posted December 18, 2008 You forgot to add the manly grunts! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smug simian Report post Posted December 26, 2008 Ok --- here is a fun one (stop me if I've posted this one before): You have 100 quarters scattered on the floor. 90 are tails, and 10 are heads. Devise a method to separate the quarters into piles with the same number of heads. You cannot see the quarters, only flip them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gwydion Stone Report post Posted December 26, 2008 Separate 10 quarters and flip them over. Yes, I cheated and used real quarters. (that's MATH, not meth) If you're a bona fide, horn-rimmed-glasses-wearin', slide-rule-totin', function-fetishist, I need to hear from you asap. Also, ordinary mortals who are just really, really good at math may apply. Please PM me. I have an idiotic question. I'm dying to hear the actual problem itself.......not really the specific coding problem (if you are trying to make a web form (???) that executes a function.......I just mean the math problem itself. You should post it........ Our crack team of accountants and financial consultants are now busily hammering away at the thorny problem of making the offline, printable score sheet work just like the online version, so folks don't have to log in and post a review in order to get a score. The opposite of creating a web form: creating a paper sheet that would perform the same function simply. The evaluation sheet used to be just a simple five-star system, but it didn't take into account the % weights written into the code of online feature. This made it awkward for offline evaluation because the scores would be slightly different. Turns out I solved it myself, but also got a couple other elegant solutions. As I mentioned, it was an idiotic question and the answer was staring me in the face, but not being math-oriented I couldn't get my head to where I could even figure out how to approach the problem. Then I did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fingerpickinblue Report post Posted December 27, 2008 So this is like that Emily Litella "Never Mind!", right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
