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[shraeye]

can't let others get ahead; 7456

[eHalcyon]

3116, will have to try again now that I know what's going on.

[mcmcsalot]

2720

[eHalcyon]

6292 I don't know what's happening again.

[Voltaire]

3424 - too much fun.

[Teproc]

Tried once, 512... apparently I suck at this.

[sudgy]

Tried once, 512... apparently I suck at this.

We're talking about our total score, not the biggest tile.

[Teproc]

Oh, I didn't even see the score thingy.

6480 then. I'm pretty good actually

*confidence in self restored*

[Kirian]

Nerd!  How about you get yourself a full-life, Kirian!

Is this a half-life pun?

I should certainly hope not; lambda is the decay constant, not the half-life.  Half-life is t_1/2.

[Kirian]

Apparently I suck at this game, my highest was 2724 in three or four plays.

[mcmcsalot]

I thought so too 2700 my first multiple tries just got 6420 b

[Dsell]

Welp, my roommate just got the 2048 block and won with a score of 20380.

[mcmcsalot]

Welp, my roommate just got the 2048 block and won with a score of 20380.

Wat

[mcmcsalot]

Got 3108 with up/left/down/right over and over lol

[Witherweaver]

Nerd!  How about you get yourself a full-life, Kirian!

Is this a half-life pun?

I should certainly hope not; lambda is the decay constant, not the half-life.  Half-life is t_1/2.

... touche

Though, I don't like using subscripts for my variables (unless I need to enumerate them), so if I was going to write the exponential decay in terms of the half-life, I might just use lambda for that. 

[SirPeebles]

Nerd!  How about you get yourself a full-life, Kirian!

Is this a half-life pun?

I should certainly hope not; lambda is the decay constant, not the half-life.  Half-life is t_1/2.

Sure was.  Decay constants and half-lives are pretty much the same thing.  You can get from one to the other.

[Ozle]

can't let others get ahead; 7456

7457 here

[mcmcsalot]

can't let others get ahead; 7456

7457 here

I was like woa...oh it's ozzle

[nkirbit]

Just got 7828.. so close to that 1028 block!  Had all the pieces, just couldn't quite get em together.

[Ozle]

can't let others get ahead; 7456

7457 here

I was like woa...oh it's ozzle

Where where??

[theory]

Oh, I didn't even see the score thingy.

6480 then. I'm pretty good actually

*confidence in self restored*

Seriously.  I got a 1024 block and was so sad to read about all these higher numbers (and was also vaguely discomfited by the fact that I didn't really think many of them were powers of 2 ...)

[Kuildeous]

Seriously.  I got a 1024 block and was so sad to read about all these higher numbers (and was also vaguely discomfited by the fact that I didn't really think many of them were powers of 2 ...)

You're playing the beginner version where everything is a power of 2. We're all playing the advanced version where everything is a power of 1.1873953

[Kirian]

Seriously.  I got a 1024 block and was so sad to read about all these higher numbers (and was also vaguely discomfited by the fact that I didn't really think many of them were powers of 2 ...)

You're playing the beginner version where everything is a power of 2. We're all playing the advanced version where everything is a power of 1.1873953

And with that, it's time to go create a version that multiplies instead of adds, and uses powers of 1.

[blueblimp]

I enjoyed the video but it skips over a couple things that do make pi special. One is that it's a transcendental number (unlike sqrt(2)). Sure, almost all real numbers are transcendental, but there aren't that many that actually get used day-to-day: that'd be pi and e, and that's about it. Another special thing about pi is that it sometimes shows up in places that you didn't initially expect to be related to circles or periodicity.

(I can't explain why pi gets so much more love than e, though. Maybe it's just that geometry is more intuitive than calculus.)

[sudgy]

(I can't explain why pi gets so much more love than e, though. Maybe it's just that geometry is more intuitive than calculus.)

I think part of it is that more people know about pi than e.  Pi is taught in elementary geometry, while e is taught in calculus.