It's all about the prepositions

[featherynscale]

Conversation from Sunday, about my birthday, which is Friday:

triadruid: You'll be 27, then?
Me: Yep. Fine druid number, that.
Triadruid: You're going to wake up a druid any day now. You'll likely wake up a druid on Saturday.
Me: Seems sort of unlikely.
Triadruid: *shrug* You could maybe wake up *with* a druid then. Three druids, possibly.
Me: Yeah, that sounds okay.
Triadruid: Nine druids, maybe. Do we know nine druids?
Me: I'm going to need a bigger bed.

Comments

turning 27

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

You realize that this is the last time you'll be an age where you can be nⁿ don't you? The next age would be 256 and that's a ways a way...

Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Errr, 4⁴⁴ = 64, n'est pas?

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not even close.
4⁴ = 4 x 4 = 16 x 4 = 64 x 4 = 256.

4⁴⁴ is much larger depending on how you group. the smallest would be 256⁴ or 2^{8 x 4} or 4.3 billion (american, not english). The other would be 4²⁵⁶ or 2⁵¹² or about 4 x 10¹⁵³.

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No, darlin'.
64=4^3.
(I can't be bothered with the tags at the moment, sorry)

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Ehh, sorry. I'm stuck on the 3's.

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sokay. I still love you, but I will be double-checking your tallies from now on :-P

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

When the GC budget starts to involve double-exponents, I will be glad to have your help, honey. :)

There is just no need for that at all.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

When the GC Budget starts to involve double exponents, I will pry it from your weird manic grasp and re-write the sumbitch.

(By the way, scroll down, you could have a convert...)

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[lysana.livejournal.com]

One too many superscripts there, I think.

Re: turning 27

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'm very excited about that, actually. Unlike some people, I *do* like a math geek, and would likely be one, had I but the brainpower to manage it.

Re: turning 27

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

So, uhm, what would I have to do to qualify as a druid by, say, this Friday?

I dunno:

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Is your age (or any other appropriate measurement) factorable by 3?
Can you 'sing' in a tempo which makes tortoises itch?
Do you have an affinity for creatures of nature? nevermind, Volfie...
Can you try to get along with dualistic Wiccans?
Do you own either a long white robe, or a long white beard?
Have you ever built a henge out of sticks/river rocks/Sculpey/dinner?

Please submit in triplicate (naturally).

Re: I dunno:

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

That earns the ::pfft:: award for the day. Well done, beardy man.

Re: I dunno:

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Well then. I should have posted my version, then... it involved cows.

Re: I dunno:

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Have you ever built a henge out of sticks/river rocks/Sculpey/dinner?

Rolling on the floor here... there was a conversation at dinner last Friday about building a henge out of ...er... feminine hygeine products. The aim of said structure would be to keep the misogynistic supervisors away. Yes, my weird sense of humor strikes again. However, the original suggestion was not mine, but was instead made by cameellie....

Re: I dunno:

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Someone's beat you to it. (http://www.tamponhenge.co.uk/)

Though I have no idea if their structure wards away bosses or not.

Re: I dunno:

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll have to pass that link along....