Miscellaneous stuff from today
Jul. 19th, 2005 06:37 pmCorrection: The guy who gave yesterday's awful lecture was named Curt Monash, not Carl.
Random stuff from a while ago I forgot about:
It happened a while ago that we happened to see a truck on Comm Ave for a company called "Assured Collision". Matt took a picture of it on his phone.
So a few classes ago in Zeta Function, Anton (I think it was Anton) drew on the board before class "The zeta pirate". It was the letter ζ, but made to look like a pirate, with a pirate hat and going "Yar!". It was equal to the product over all p∈pirates of (1-1/p)-1. There was a thing below it, noting s=1⇒ - and what it implied was a picture of the zeta pirate exploding, with the sound effect "Splurt!" below it. I think someone thought to take a picture of that one too.
So today Rohrlich introduced the p-adic integers! He didn't introduce the fun notation for p-adic expansions, though...
Also, today Steve is here!
I think we finally have an idea of what we're going to do for the talent show. Very few people have signed up so far... we may have to stick a lot of them in the Default Act, which is supposed to be really horrid this year...
Fergie insisted on talking about various disgusting things appearing in Elfen Lied today at lunch, and Rebecca finally declared that his right to speak was revoked.
Josh: You're allowed to talk about math, but that's it.
Fergie: So let's discuss combinatorics in terms of little boys and little girls.
Apparently Lucas had some dream last night about ITRPers hunting him with Dirichlet functions.
Glenn: Different people's eyeballs will work differently.
[Meaning that different people will find different things obvious, IIRC.]
More uselessness from ∞-boy:
Glenn asks how we proved something. Infinity-boy raises his hand and answers, "We did a problem like that."
Today in lecture Glenn asked who could find a primitive root of U191, and Phil suggested 173. Someone else (I'm not sure who) responded, "A normal person would just say -18."
( Lab annoyance )
-Sniffnoy
Random stuff from a while ago I forgot about:
It happened a while ago that we happened to see a truck on Comm Ave for a company called "Assured Collision". Matt took a picture of it on his phone.
So a few classes ago in Zeta Function, Anton (I think it was Anton) drew on the board before class "The zeta pirate". It was the letter ζ, but made to look like a pirate, with a pirate hat and going "Yar!". It was equal to the product over all p∈pirates of (1-1/p)-1. There was a thing below it, noting s=1⇒ - and what it implied was a picture of the zeta pirate exploding, with the sound effect "Splurt!" below it. I think someone thought to take a picture of that one too.
So today Rohrlich introduced the p-adic integers! He didn't introduce the fun notation for p-adic expansions, though...
Also, today Steve is here!
I think we finally have an idea of what we're going to do for the talent show. Very few people have signed up so far... we may have to stick a lot of them in the Default Act, which is supposed to be really horrid this year...
Fergie insisted on talking about various disgusting things appearing in Elfen Lied today at lunch, and Rebecca finally declared that his right to speak was revoked.
Josh: You're allowed to talk about math, but that's it.
Fergie: So let's discuss combinatorics in terms of little boys and little girls.
Apparently Lucas had some dream last night about ITRPers hunting him with Dirichlet functions.
Glenn: Different people's eyeballs will work differently.
[Meaning that different people will find different things obvious, IIRC.]
More uselessness from ∞-boy:
Glenn asks how we proved something. Infinity-boy raises his hand and answers, "We did a problem like that."
Today in lecture Glenn asked who could find a primitive root of U191, and Phil suggested 173. Someone else (I'm not sure who) responded, "A normal person would just say -18."
( Lab annoyance )-Sniffnoy
