8th January 2007, 6:53 PM
And now for something completely different.
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/what_xkcd_means.png">
I'd like to say that the bottom one especially applies to me. My insane tiled floor rules involve legal moves a knight can make in chess, and for an especially fun time, try figuring out not just technically legal but if it is possible, based on where a knight might be placed at a "starting location" and your current location to determine how to move from there.
The graham's number thing terrifies me... Let me put it this way. Those of you thinking about how big a "googol" is and how the universe may actually DIE OUT before we ever reach a googolPLEX (counting a number per second) are thinking PATHETICALLY TOO SMALL.
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/what_xkcd_means.png">
I'd like to say that the bottom one especially applies to me. My insane tiled floor rules involve legal moves a knight can make in chess, and for an especially fun time, try figuring out not just technically legal but if it is possible, based on where a knight might be placed at a "starting location" and your current location to determine how to move from there.
The graham's number thing terrifies me... Let me put it this way. Those of you thinking about how big a "googol" is and how the universe may actually DIE OUT before we ever reach a googolPLEX (counting a number per second) are thinking PATHETICALLY TOO SMALL.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)