by liberal japonicus
For reasons unknown, the video below the fold popped up in my Youtube feed and since we have a few metal fans here as well as Russell, I thought I'd put it up.
I really like the analytical way he breaks it down in order to remember it and seeing a kind of intelligence that must have tons and tons of experience behind it. So if you need a theme, tell us about times when you have been blown away by someone doing something in a similar way.
One less than a Trinity, of course.
--TP
Posted by: Tony P. | March 15, 2021 at 05:59 PM
define "two"
Binary: 10
Posted by: wj | March 15, 2021 at 06:01 PM
Okay, so here is one for the Douglas Adams fans: nine times six IS forty-two if you are working in base thirteen...
Posted by: nous | March 15, 2021 at 06:10 PM
define "two"
It's equal to "one", for large values of "one".
Posted by: Snarki, child of Loki | March 15, 2021 at 08:31 PM
...for large values of "one".
Just to cover my bases, I always say "for sufficiently large values of 'one.'" Also 2+2=5, for sufficiently large values of two. Let "sufficiently" do the heavy lifting. I do admit a fondness for the accountant's answer to the question of how much is 2+2; how much do you want it to be?
Posted by: Michael Cain | March 15, 2021 at 08:47 PM
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--TP
Posted by: Tony P. | March 15, 2021 at 09:02 PM
Looks like the ???? term is the last in the series.
Posted by: Pro Bono | March 15, 2021 at 10:06 PM
For those who prefer to cheat, the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
Posted by: Michael Cain | March 16, 2021 at 11:28 AM
I cheated. I was sort of on the right track, looking at binary and moduli, but I don't know if I would ever have gotten there.
Posted by: hairshirthedonist | March 16, 2021 at 12:00 PM
"Science is Back" -- great to hear from the new EPA Administrator. But how disgusting that we're in a place where it needs to be said.
Posted by: wj | March 16, 2021 at 12:45 PM
I cheated. I was sort of on the right track, looking at binary and moduli, but I don't know if I would ever have gotten there.
I also cheated. I will say that I would have deducted points from this if a student had provided it. The standard notation is to include the base when mixed bases are involved.
Posted by: Michael Cain | March 16, 2021 at 01:17 PM
The Universe works a whole lot nicer in
4-epsilon dimensions. Someone should adjust pi to make that happen.
Posted by: Snarki, child of Loki | March 16, 2021 at 06:35 PM
Still an open thread? My wife got her first Covid vaccination yesterday. No side effects today other than a mildly sore arm. Next set of eligibles will be added on Friday here, and includes front line food service workers. With any luck, we're within six weeks or so of the struggling local restaurants being able to have at least a couple of evenings a week where they can be mask-free and at full capacity if they make people show the vaccine card the state's been handing out with each injection.
Posted by: Michael Cain | March 17, 2021 at 03:38 PM
NC opened up "group 4" today, and i got myself an appointment for Monday.
so hopefully, in five weeks, after i've had the second dose, Mrs and I will be able to go out to eat!
so excited.
Posted by: cleek | March 17, 2021 at 03:42 PM
Went searching for something *different* for St. Paddy's music and ended up on Prog Archive looking for bands from Ireland with the Prog Folk tag. This was, by far, the oddest of the bunch, a strange mashup of psychedelic garage, prog, and folk:
Mushroom - The Liathdan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ory5i9s8r9I
Posted by: nous | March 17, 2021 at 04:00 PM
Vote Fraud! In Texas!
go ahead, guess the party.
Posted by: cleek | March 20, 2021 at 10:32 AM