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I loved Square One! (The pieces that stick out the most in my mind are Mathman [with the evil Mr. Glitch!] and Mathnet. It was years before I figured out the pun behind the names of Kate Monday and Pat Tuesday [Sergeant Joe Friday, anyone?] or the probable reason behind the actor switch [one of {illness, death, or other life-altering event} or {contract negotiation failure}.]. But I loved mysteries solvable by math...and math-based video games.)Nyamaza wrote:Well, I didn't evern try to sell back any of my comp sci books. Every one of those has SOMETHING that it covers better then any of the others, that helps me to remember different things better then the other.
First rule of a CS major... never sell your CS book.
And to answer the second question running through this thread, while I didn't ever study further in text books (terribly boring things, most of the time), by the time I was 7 I had the entire Cosmos series memorized, had a couple PBS tv shows I watched avidly (Square One and The Secret City (art show that helped to teach perspective and 3D art, won me two different art awards)), and typically was given more difficult problems by my math teachers then the rest of the class (my good teachers at least).
Nyamaza wrote:To this day I've never done an addition or subtraction word problem. That day in class the teacher went ahead and gave me multiplication and division ones.
And to try to win the title of uptimate childhood geekiness... during summer vacations I would do long division, by hand, for fun!
I ALMOST got there. I started on my family's encyclopedia, but got distracted and went back to gaming halfway through the A volume.DetailBear wrote:I'm not sure if this is playing in the US.
http://www.swaystudio.com/honda_movie.html
In the geekiness contest, I used to read dictionaries for fun.
Yay!!! Got it in one!!!The_Fox wrote:Recognizer...something in the back of my mind has an image of the big flyin robot thing from Tron...is that it, Alfy?
The Fox - Must destroy MCP...
YOURS TOO?!?!?!Nyamaza wrote:0_0
That was my FAVORITE!!!
I love the tile puzzle at the end!
hmm, can't say I know where that's from, but I'm guessing the sequence is x(n) = ((fib(n) - 1) % 5) + 1?Alfador wrote:YOURS TOO?!?!?!
"1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 5, 2, 2, 4, 1...but there are TWO!!!"
if that were the formula, you'd have 0's in the result. there are no 0's. ((F(n)-1)%5)+1 seems to give much nicer results...Nyamaza wrote:nope nope.
F(0) = 1
F(1) = 1
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)
in the case of that puzzle
f(n) = F(n)%5
so, let's say you put 1 slice of pepperoni on the first slice of the pizza. You then put another 1 slice of pepperoni on the second slice of the pizza. You then decide each slice of pizza should have a number of slices of pepperoni on it equal to the sum of the number of slices of pepperoni on the previous two slices of pizza. So the first slice has 1 on it. the second also 1. the third 2. the fourth 3. the fifth 5. the sixth... unfortunatly, you can't fit 8 slices of pepperoni on a slice of pizza, so you decide every time you have more than 5 slices to put on, you'll put on 5 less. so you put 3 pieces on the sixth slice. you then go to put 8 on, but again 8 doesn't fit, so you subtract 5, and put 3 on again. you then go to put on 6, but 6 again doesn't fit, so you subtract 5 and put on 1. you then put on 4 slices. then 5 slices. and so on, until you run out of pizza and/or pepperoni.WolfFur wrote:I really like pizza.
Whoa....I so totally understand that now. Makes me wish I'd seen this as a kid, coulda given me a better grounding in mathematics than I currently have.randyg wrote:so, let's say you put 1 slice of pepperoni on the first slice of the pizza. You then put another 1 slice of pepperoni on the second slice of the pizza. You then decide each slice of pizza should have a number of slices of pepperoni on it equal to the sum of the number of slices of pepperoni on the previous two slices of pizza. So the first slice has 1 on it. the second also 1. the third 2. the fourth 3. the fifth 5. the sixth... unfortunatly, you can't fit 8 slices of pepperoni on a slice of pizza, so you decide every time you have more than 5 slices to put on, you'll put on 5 less. so you put 3 pieces on the sixth slice. you then go to put 8 on, but again 8 doesn't fit, so you subtract 5, and put 3 on again. you then go to put on 6, but 6 again doesn't fit, so you subtract 5 and put on 1. you then put on 4 slices. then 5 slices. and so on, until you run out of pizza and/or pepperoni.WolfFur wrote:I really like pizza.
--Randy