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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #900 on: October 07, 2013, 04:10:16 pm »
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http://www.worldgarliceatingcompetition.co.uk/

World champion ate 49 cloves in 5 minutes.
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« Reply #901 on: October 07, 2013, 04:19:40 pm »
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Sometime I fancy myself capable of some of these feats. I can eat a lot of chocolate real fast. I have been known to put down a pound in 30 minutes.

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« Reply #902 on: October 07, 2013, 04:22:42 pm »
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My family gets garlic in a bunch of individual cloves anyway.  It's way easier that way.
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« Reply #903 on: October 07, 2013, 05:01:30 pm »
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I talked to a coworker the other day who had no idea you could peel bulbed garlic to get the same cloves you buy pre-peeled at the store.
My head swam for a while cogitating how removed we can be from our food.
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« Reply #904 on: October 07, 2013, 07:17:46 pm »
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Oh, going back to my formula, it sometimes gives a negative answer.  Getting the absolute value of the numerator/the whole answer at the end works, but I'm not sure what caused it...
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« Reply #905 on: October 07, 2013, 07:26:12 pm »
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« Reply #906 on: October 07, 2013, 09:56:06 pm »
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I talked to a coworker the other day who had no idea you could peel bulbed garlic to get the same cloves you buy pre-peeled at the store.
My head swam for a while cogitating how removed we can be from our food.

Where the hell does one get pre-peeled garlic?  I've seen pre-minced, but... wow.
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« Reply #907 on: October 07, 2013, 10:59:53 pm »
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I talked to a coworker the other day who had no idea you could peel bulbed garlic to get the same cloves you buy pre-peeled at the store.
My head swam for a while cogitating how removed we can be from our food.

Where the hell does one get pre-peeled garlic?  I've seen pre-minced, but... wow.
I've seen it in the supermarkets, but generally I've either been lazy enough to get the pre-minced or un-lazy enough to get the whole bulb, so I've never even thought of buying it.
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #908 on: October 07, 2013, 11:03:24 pm »
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Oh, going back to my formula, it sometimes gives a negative answer.  Getting the absolute value of the numerator/the whole answer at the end works, but I'm not sure what caused it...

Hmm... I'd need to look over the entire block of working, but most likely you performed a step without considering all possibilities - e.g. sqrt(x2) = x, instead of sqrt(x2) = ±x
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« Reply #909 on: October 08, 2013, 02:28:30 am »
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Oh, going back to my formula, it sometimes gives a negative answer.  Getting the absolute value of the numerator/the whole answer at the end works, but I'm not sure what caused it...

Now, let's simplify that a bit, taking the x part:
(ay + x - ab)/(a2 + 1) - x
ay + x - ab - a2x - x
(a2x + ay - ab)/(a2 + 1)

And the y part:
(a2y + ax + b)/(a2 + 1) - y
a2y + ax + b - a2y - y
(ax + b - y)/(a2 + 1)

In the top set of simplifications, you drop a (-), you should have:

(-a2x + ay - ab)/(a2 + 1)

But the main problem is you went through a ton of extra factoring steps... what I just wrote there is equal to:

= a(y - b - ax)/(a2 + 1)

Call that m (what you call the x part).  Then,

(ax + b - y)/(a2 + 1)

"The y part"; call this n.  Note that the bolded portions are additive opposites.

To simplify writing things, I'm going to call the distance (what we're looking for) d, and so

d2 = m2 + n2

OK, so let

k = ax + b - y
z = a2 + 1

Now, m = -ak/z, and n = k/z

m2 = a2k2/z2
n2 = k2/z2

d2 = m2 + n2 = a2k2/z2 + k2/z2

So

d2z2 = a2k2 + k2
d2z2 = (a2 + 1)k2
d2z2 = zk2
d2 = k2/z

d = abs(k/sqrt(z)) = abs((ax + b - y)/sqrt(a2 + 1))

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Dropping that negative sign gives the same answer via squaring, I suspect, but it takes a lot more work.
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #910 on: October 08, 2013, 10:59:40 am »
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Curtains!
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« Reply #911 on: October 08, 2013, 11:44:49 am »
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Curtains!

Whooosh!

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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #912 on: October 08, 2013, 07:41:35 pm »
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« Reply #913 on: October 08, 2013, 11:56:55 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #914 on: October 11, 2013, 08:59:47 pm »
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« Reply #915 on: October 13, 2013, 05:29:41 pm »
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« Reply #916 on: October 13, 2013, 05:34:22 pm »
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Seeing the square, I was wondering how to get a square wave, but realized you would have to use some non-euclidean geometry for that.
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« Reply #917 on: October 13, 2013, 05:37:16 pm »
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Seeing the square, I was wondering how to get a square wave, but realized you would have to use some non-euclidean geometry for that.

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« Reply #918 on: October 13, 2013, 05:50:30 pm »
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I've been wasting a bunch of time on this: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
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« Reply #919 on: October 13, 2013, 05:51:01 pm »
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Seeing the square, I was wondering how to get a square wave, but realized you would have to use some non-euclidean geometry for that.

You would want to replace the blue square with a pair of (infinitely long) parallel lines.
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« Reply #920 on: October 13, 2013, 05:52:31 pm »
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Seeing the square, I was wondering how to get a square wave, but realized you would have to use some non-euclidean geometry for that.

You would want to replace the blue square with a pair of (infinitely long) parallel lines.

I'm talking about making a normal polygon still.
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« Reply #921 on: October 13, 2013, 06:03:53 pm »
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I've been wasting a bunch of time on this: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

This game is awesome.
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« Reply #922 on: October 13, 2013, 08:19:15 pm »
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I've been wasting a bunch of time on this: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #923 on: October 14, 2013, 02:50:55 am »
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I've been wasting a bunch of time on this: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
I played it for three days, got bored when there were no new upgrades available. I don't think you can really call this a game, as there isn't a goal.
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« Reply #924 on: October 14, 2013, 03:30:30 am »
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I've been wasting a bunch of time on this: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
I played it for three days, got bored when there were no new upgrades available. I don't think you can really call this a game, as there isn't a goal.

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