Sonnet № 90780
Quest!
Upon this wand'ring quest,
For which I wear a vest,
Should those who show bare breast,
Be under house arrest.
I'll always do my best,
To proudly sport my crest,
To East or to the West,
With ne'er a falt'ring zest!
I'm always fully dressed,
It's nudeness I detest,
For if you had not guessed,
With clothing I am blessed!
My inner pain shall forever my burden be.
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"Qu'est nest breastvest"
Well crafted; a NINE shall you have.
and do this:
My inner pain shall
forever
my burden be.
Regrettable, the way you got stuck in Nethertime. Perhaps if youâd listened to sound advice and not set your flux capacitor to that ridiculous 3.1gw, youâd be dining with King Arthur right now instead of floating about like some poop-stuffed raven over the Fields of Doggerel.
As I was about say when you rudely went off on your ill-fated trip, 1.21 is 1.21 regardless of anybodyâs phrasing of it. And to show how wrong you were, I was leading up to the European reversal of comma and decimal point, 1,21, and the omitted and unnecessary zero, hence 1,210 gigawatts, which is far more than 200% in error. Itâs too late now, of course, and I do wish time were kinder, but perhaps next time youâll reconsider your insinuation that girls canât do math. And, really, âgigawattsâ does not become some new-fangled word just because somebody mispronounces it.
Really, DA, Iâm shocked. But if you ask nicely, Iâll try to rescue you by deriving an input algorithm for your misfluxed capacity.
Regards,
Dovina
You are doubtless familiar with binary or hexadecimal arithmetic, or at least the concept of using bases other than 10. Let's use base 35, where digits above 9 are written using letters A - Z. Then how is the following pronounced?
1.L
The answer is "One point L", or "One point twenty-one", since the value of L is 21. In base 10, this evalutes to 1 + (21 / 35) = 1.6.
Still in base 35, how is the following pronounced?
1.21
The answer is "One point two one". In base 10, this evaluates to 1 + (2 / 35) + (1 / 1225) ~= 1.058. Not at all the same as "One point twenty-one".
I bet you still don't get it. Then think about this. What is the value of "one point a million"? Is it the same as "one point ten" or "one point one"? No. And only a massive thicky could possibly think otherwise.
2. The unit is a Jigawatt. 1.21 gigawatts is a paltry amount, much less than the amount of power delivered by a lightning bolt.
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TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE MAHONEY.
They are Mike Mahoney's idea of A REAL GOOD TIME. Of course he's made the same mistake as Dovina has. They're both major thickos!!!!!1
I'm afraid, though, we're all horribly mistaken calling it base-35. A base "where digits above 9 are written using letters A - Z" is BASE-36, since zero counts as one of the digits, the way a base using the positive digits up to nine is base-10.
I blame -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.
35*35 + 22*35 + 9 = 2004.
In base 36 you're looking at year 1KO.
In particular, Z0 in base-35 = 25*35 = 875.
Given that your first error revolved around this exact phenomenon, this is inexcusable.
8th time the charm.
It's been five years since I studied Maths, meaning eight years since I last saw bases. Checking my transcipt, I find I made dismal grades in everything except Intro to Logic and Proof. Lately, I'm even embarrassed about that.
Let us use base 10, where letters A-F are used to represent numbers 10 through 15. Then DEAF = (13 * 1000) + (14 * 100) + (10 * 10) + (15 * 1). This doesn't magically make it hexademical, in which DEAF = (13 * 4096) + (14 * 256) + (10 * 16) + (15 * 1).
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