Ha freakin' ha

(22:48:55) Grenadier 32: You'll probably be surprised by the disparity, but if you can confidently do Standard on a keyboard you can probably at least do Light on a pad

Put the "Certainly!" away message back up today. Got one:

(21:08:59) dvorak729: is the riemann hypothesis true?
(21:08:59) Sniffnoy <AUTO-REPLY>: Certainly!
(21:09:03) dvorak729: cool...
(21:09:21) dvorak729: got a proof i can buy?

Your periodic Nomicron update

pitboss recently put up for RFC an old rule from Round 2, the Whip Count. It allows a player to spend several points to find out how people are currently voting on one of his proposals. JediSquid's comment: "We should be able to use the Whip on other players."

Good old math team

"Hitler married his cousin, but then he killed her... so that kind of negates the incest." -Fan

"That should be an internet quiz: Which Russian premier are you?" -Vlad

Chris: The problem with this problem is that the stupid guess is right.
Tom: ...OK, I have no idea what the stupid guess is.
Chris: Well, x³+y³ is 10, x²+y² is 7, so, arithmetic progression, x+y is going to be 4.
Tom: That's not even a stupid guess. That's a numerological guess.

Mr. Holbrook gave us a stupid calculus competition today. It's exactly like those things we did in Dr. Vijaya's class. One of the questions had the following choices:

A) 2a
B) -2a
C) 2 ³√a
D) ³√(6a)
E) nota

"What the hell is nota?" Tom finally asked. "Not a?" I suggested. Chris suggested it was miscoded, and maybe it was supposed to be a'... which is meaningless here. I was thinking the same thing, I said, only I was thinking of it as a-bar (can't really do that in HTML without using Unicode, TTBOMK), as in complex conjugate... which here would just be a, as it's a real problem. Finally Tom realized that it stood for "None of the above". How awful.

(I may have some of the people wrong there.)

-Sniffnoy

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