guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

At 5/29/09 12:32 AM, fluffkomix wrote: guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

10hex - 12dec = 10(base 4)?

At 5/29/09 01:03 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 5/29/09 12:32 AM, fluffkomix wrote: guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

10hex - 12dec = 10(base 4)?

....you're overthinking this.

i'm in grade 10 in regular math. think about something i would think up. it's extremely simple actually. i did something like this in grade 1 then never again.

At 5/29/09 01:24 AM, fluffkomix wrote: ....you're overthinking this.

10-12=10
...I dunno why, but when I looked that up on google, I got a list of Flu Shots.

At 5/28/09 10:31 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I stubbed my toe (the little pinky toe and that half of the foot) really badly a few hours ago, its still sore and it hurts to go up stairs (barefoot) but i dont think its broken

Thats it? Pfff

This is my night tonight.

1. Bashed knee into large metal spike, limping for 5 hours now
2. Toe rolled over by a 130 lb object (same leg LOL)
3. Finger's pinched by machinery like at least 20 times, they are all owies
4. Cut my hand open on a loose piece of metal from a spinning platter (at movie theater, the thing the film sits on and spins)
and lastly, 5: Was stabbed with a pencil, just for good measure >__<

FEEL SORRY FOR MEEEE! :'(

:P

or not, its all good XD

At 5/29/09 12:32 AM, fluffkomix wrote: guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

uhh 10pm - 12hours = 10am ?

At 5/29/09 01:57 AM, Zuggz wrote:

ten minus twelve equals ten.

uhh 10pm - 12hours = 10am ?

It's a very elliptical question if that's the case :/

Today's Distorted View daily was extra nasty. With the granny and shit, I actually had to stop typing. D:

Wow. Haven't been here for a while. And I haven't missed much.

Ba-dum da.

Anyways, I've been browsing all over trying to find that swanky intro where the NG logo fades into a cursor that passes over and reveals "Everything by Everyone", but I can't find it. I remember a while ago Tom made a post about it and gave it for download, but it's not on the official list of shit you can download.

Someboy got it that they could share with lil ol' me :3

At 5/29/09 09:48 AM, Radioactive24 wrote: Wow. Haven't been here for a while. And I haven't missed much.

Ba-dum da.

Anyways, I've been browsing all over trying to find that swanky intro where the NG logo fades into a cursor that passes over and reveals "Everything by Everyone", but I can't find it. I remember a while ago Tom made a post about it and gave it for download, but it's not on the official list of shit you can download.

I thought that that was just for sponsorships :/ I think I've got it somewhere; unfortunately internet troubles are preventing me from uploading anything right now though :'(

Fuck you guys, you jinxed me.
When I woke up this morning, I lifted my head up really fast but I happened to be laying under my window sill. So I smashed my head into the corner of the shelf.
Now I have a cut next to my eye.

At 5/29/09 09:50 AM, Paranoia wrote: I thought that that was just for sponsorships :/ I think I've got it somewhere; unfortunately internet troubles are preventing me from uploading anything right now though :'(

Oh really? Balls. I know it used to be that way, but I was almost certain that I remembered Tom making a post about it and offering a link.

Maybe I lied to myself about that. I mean, it's really the only way I can sleep at night sometimes.

At 5/29/09 01:57 AM, Zuggz wrote:

At 5/29/09 12:32 AM, fluffkomix wrote: guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

uhh 10pm - 12hours = 10am ?

CORRECT! everyone i've tried never gets it.

At 5/28/09 11:22 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: That's my perspective. If I'm still on a high horse, then everyone else must be riding ponies.

If you read the previous posts in that topic, you'd have seen that knugen had already suggested it was a scope issue and it didn't seem to be the case. Please keep trying to help people, but not if you're going to be so negative about it! :D

At 5/29/09 10:19 AM, fluffkomix wrote: CORRECT! everyone i've tried never gets it.

Because it's a stupid riddle to be fair. In fact it's not even a riddle. It uses numbers and mathematical operands yet ignores mathematical logic. You can't just use integers like that as hours in "pm" and "am" without specifying units and exceptions.

At 5/29/09 01:03 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 5/29/09 12:32 AM, fluffkomix wrote: guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

10hex - 12dec = 10(base 4)?

I like Glaiel's answer,
and all of you, please stop hurting yourselves. Now I'm probably gonna fall down the stairs or something.
:(

I bet you're just hurting yourselves just so you can post about it.
You bunch of self-harming attention whores.

At 5/29/09 11:00 AM, Toast wrote:

At 5/29/09 10:19 AM, fluffkomix wrote: CORRECT! everyone i've tried never gets it.

Because it's a stupid riddle to be fair. In fact it's not even a riddle. It uses numbers and mathematical operands yet ignores mathematical logic. You can't just use integers like that as hours in "pm" and "am" without specifying units and exceptions.

Yeah, from what I can tell, Glaiel's solution is at least as correct as the "actual answer". It was just a stupid little riddle though, just probably not one that you should put in a place like this (with scary programmers all over ;D).

At 5/29/09 10:19 AM, fluffkomix wrote:

At 5/29/09 01:57 AM, Zuggz wrote:

At 5/29/09 12:32 AM, fluffkomix wrote: guys, figure out this simple math riddle. i just randomly thought it up and realized it's actually not that easy to figure out.

for some people at least. ANYWAYS

ten minus twelve equals ten.

uhh 10pm - 12hours = 10am ?

CORRECT! everyone i've tried never gets it.

Oh no that bloody isn't the answer. Your statement was that 10 - 12 = 10. His was that 10pm - 12h = 10am. They're two completely different statements in completely different units.

You may as well say that 5km + 3mol = 8seconds. It doesn't! You can't mix your units like that! That's basic!

At 5/29/09 11:32 AM, Paranoia wrote: You may as well say that 5km + 3mol = 8seconds. It doesn't! You can't mix your units like that! That's basic!

Liar, it does. 10 apples - 8 Luis's = 2 fulpbabies.

At 5/29/09 11:14 AM, knugen wrote: just probably not one that you should put in a place like this (with scary programmers all over ;D).

Damn right.
Find all bases XYZ for 10rX - 12rY = 10rZ.

The clock thing doesn't ignore mathematical logic, it only fails to mention that the numbers are not integers.

Maths

I'm looking forward to A Level Maths, i might be able to keep up with you people on the high level stuff. Should open some more doors for programming too. Has anyone who's done it found it useful?

Stalker

Finally bought it, awesome atmosphere, pretty buggy, but a great game nonetheless.

It's like a hardcore fallout 3.

At 5/29/09 11:50 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Find all bases XYZ for 10rX - 12rY = 10rZ.

now THIS is a more interesting riddle

could be written as

X - 12rY = Z

X - (Y+2) = Z

X-Y-2 = Z

X-Y-Z = 2
^^^^
all X, Y, Z which satisfy this

A level maths isn't all that. I'm halfway through my exams for it. I didn't really learn anything that helped me with programming that I didn't learn in GCSE maths. I cant say that for sure though, who knows when things will come up in the future, but there hasnt been anything too helpful.

I guess learning my trig a bit better might of helped here and there, but only because I was so bad at it at GCSE level.

Further maths for me next year, lets hope that its as fun as it sounds :P

TRIG: An intermediate step in learning maths, before you can learn vectors

seriously trig seems useful but vectors are faster/easier to comprehend

At 5/29/09 12:20 PM, CaiWengi wrote: A level maths isn't all that. I'm halfway through my exams for it. I didn't really learn anything that helped me with programming that I didn't learn in GCSE maths. I cant say that for sure though, who knows when things will come up in the future, but there hasnt been anything too helpful.

Seriously, A level maths was probably my favourite :P All of that differentiation and integration - it's really useful, and it carries over to degree level very naturally.

Further maths is OK, but at AS level you don't really learn anything you couldn't teach yourself with a little background reading. True, a lot of complex number stuff doesn't make that much sense at first, but most of the people I've been taught by didn't seem that good at teaching it anyway. If you actually come to it having done background reading on i, arguments and moduli, matrices et c, the stuff you cover is ridiculously easy.

At 5/29/09 12:25 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: TRIG: An intermediate step in learning maths, before you can learn vectors

seriously trig seems useful but vectors are faster/easier to comprehend

It depends what you mean by trig. I can't really overstate how useful sines and cosines and junk are, and there's not a whole lot you can do without them.

Hey guys I'm doing an experiment in procedural level generation and I need a bunch of level files to scan in

files should look like this
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/290509/4 6826_level.txt

. = space
X = block

must be 15 lines (for test purposes)

um as a guideline, character can jump over towers of 2 block height, and across chasms of 3 space width, even though I'm not actually having a character

bigger levels are better but I need a ton of data to make this work

so just email me some text files like the one above (glaielgamesmail [fucking at sign yo] comcast [fucking period yo] net)

2000 posts :D

At 5/29/09 12:25 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: TRIG: An intermediate step in learning maths, before you can learn vectors

seriously trig seems useful but vectors are faster/easier to comprehend

Yeah I used trigonometry for ages but about 7-8 months ago I fully got into vectors. I always used normals and length and bouncing vectors off one another but didn't think much about it. Then someone showed me this and I nerdgasmed. I didn't realised before how useful and flexible the concept of vectors was and it just made me happy :D

lol i feel like I'm on a daytime tv advert:
'Vectors changed my life' lol

Exams

In the next fortnight i'm getting raped full of exams (as everyone else is as well). Got GCSE maths on monday and Core 1 AS maths on friday and a bunch of boring exams in between, and so my parents have banned me from having a social life ¬¬ horray for TF2 while pretending to revise :D

Horray for the lack of 'some account thing goes here' :D

At 5/29/09 02:48 PM, trig1 wrote: Horray for the lack of 'some account thing goes here' :D

Aw man.. it's not there when your not logged in and now I feel foolish.

At 5/29/09 02:48 PM, trig1 wrote: Exams

GCSE's lol, what a waste of time, i have the rest of my A2 exams coming up, exams that ARE important :P