[OOC] Myriad Reality

[whizzball1]

Yup. I thought about my question more and realised it was silly in retrospect. What I was trying to ask is what the equation of an ellipse would be if that ellipse was rotated so that the line between its vertices would be diagonal relative to the axes. Then I realised that you could always rotate it so it would have a "normal" orientation and position, and then you would get the equation of that exact ellipse--just rotated a bit.

I love thinking about these things. =D

[whizzball1]

My maths book just had the most hilarious bout of logic I've ever read. Context: A bunch of little kids in a bus accidentally poisoned the bus driver, and he's dead. Just as they realise that, the bus is hijacked by a fugitive colonel and sergeant. So the sergeant points his pistol at the driver and tells him to wake up, but the colonel tells the sergeant that it's illegal for bus drivers to sleep on the job. Thus, he must be dead. But the sergeant retorts that when they were at an ATM that only a driver could reach, there were instructions in braille. That would mean that they must let blind people drive, so they're probably letting sleeping guys drive as well.

My maths book is insane. And also hilarious.

[Legend]

My maths book just had the most hilarious bout of logic I've ever read. Context: A bunch of little kids in a bus accidentally poisoned the bus driver, and he's dead. Just as they realise that, the bus is hijacked by a fugitive colonel and sergeant. So the sergeant points his pistol at the driver and tells him to wake up, but the colonel tells the sergeant that it's illegal for bus drivers to sleep on the job. Thus, he must be dead. But the sergeant retorts that when they were at an ATM that only a driver could reach, there were instructions in braille. That would mean that they must let blind people drive, so they're probably letting sleeping guys drive as well.

My maths book is insane. And also hilarious.

@whizzball1

Math*

That's sad.

[whizzball1]

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Math*

That's sad.

@Legend

It is. But seriously, this author is so good at making stories so very absurd and yet totally possible.

[Legend]

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It is. But seriously, this author is so good at making stories so very absurd and yet totally possible.

@whizzball1

That's not possible sounding at all.

[whizzball1]

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That's not possible sounding at all.

@Legend

It's not improbable that a bus driver being bugged by a little girl to lick a iickable sticker would end up licking the sticker. It's not improbable that another little girl had previously sprayed the stickers with bug-spray because she thought they were bugs. I think you can guess the conclusion from there. And of course, it's not impossible for two fugitives to hijack a bus, especially if the only people on the bus are little kids, a mother, and an old bus driver, and if there's no one around for a good distance.

[Legend]

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It's not improbable that a bus driver being bugged by a little girl to lick a iickable sticker would end up licking the sticker. It's not improbable that another little girl had previously sprayed the stickers with bug-spray because she thought they were bugs. I think you can guess the conclusion from there. And of course, it's not impossible for two fugitives to hijack a bus, especially if the only people on the bus are little kids, a mother, and an old bus driver, and if there's no one around for a good distance.

@whizzball1

Well first of all, a stick of bug spray won't kill a guy. Second of all, all of that is improbable.

[Multifarious]

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Let me think about that.

...

No.

@Legend

Dorved.
Golikse Radr.
Ljund Berganz.

[Extra]

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Well first of all, a stick of bug spray won't kill a guy. Second of all, all of that is improbable.

@Legend

My maths book just had the most hilarious bout of logic I've ever read. Context: A bunch of little kids in a bus accidentally poisoned the bus driver, and he's dead. Just as they realise that, the bus is hijacked by a fugitive colonel and sergeant. So the sergeant points his pistol at the driver and tells him to wake up, but the colonel tells the sergeant that it's illegal for bus drivers to sleep on the job. Thus, he must be dead. But the sergeant retorts that when they were at an ATM that only a driver could reach, there were instructions in braille. That would mean that they must let blind people drive, so they're probably letting sleeping guys drive as well.

My maths book is insane. And also hilarious.

@whizzball1

What if the driver was already poisoned and he happened to die after he licked the bug spray sticker because the poison finally kicked in and killed him. Then the fugitives, who are actually mimes who are acting as fugitives, come in with finger pistol and are silently talking to each other and are talking about a story that someone else told who was actually blind and mute. Boom. World class detective right here.

[Legend]

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Dorved.
Golikse Radr.
Ljund Berganz.

@Multifarious

No redux.

[Extra]

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Dorved.
Golikse Radr.
Ljund Berganz.

@Multifarious

Sprt Blatz is best.

[Legend]

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Sprt Blatz is best.

@Extra

Spurt.

[whizzball1]

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Well first of all, a stick of bug spray won't kill a guy. Second of all, all of that is improbable.

@Legend

stahp ruinng my funy story u meenie

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What if the driver was already poisoned and he happened to die after he licked the bug spray sticker because the poison finally kicked in and killed him. Then the fugitives, who are actually mimes who are acting as fugitives, come in with finger pistol and are silently talking to each other and are talking about a story that someone else told who was actually blind and mute. Boom. World class detective right here.

@Extra

lelelel

[Extra]

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Spurt.

@Legend

Better...Didn't you guys call me that on Kik?

[Etcetera]

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stahp ruinng my funy story u meenie

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lelelel

@whizzball1

No.

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Better...Didn't you guys call me that on Kik?

@Extra

Probably as a joke.

[whizzball1]

So today I learned about the formulae for graphing ellipses and circles, was shown the proof for the latter, and had to work out the proof for the former with only a few pieces of starting information. Tomorrow I do parabolas! =D

[Etcetera]

So today I learned about the formulae for graphing ellipses and circles, was shown the proof for the latter, and had to work out the proof for the former with only a few pieces of starting information. Tomorrow I do parabolas! =D

@whizzball1

Proofs suck.

[Multifarious]

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No redux.

@Legend

Merg.

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Sprt Blatz is best.

@Extra

acully iz jurkab.

[whizzball1]

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Proofs suck.

@Etcetera

It was pretty fun, actually. And the book told me that I was in the top 1% of algebra students if I came up with the proof without looking at the answer, which is kind of silly so I laughed.

[Etcetera]

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It was pretty fun, actually. And the book told me that I was in the top 1% of algebra students if I came up with the proof without looking at the answer, which is kind of silly so I laughed.

@whizzball1

Because they would totally know. Regardless, nobody likes proof. They're just so much writing.