If you're referring to finding out the last digit, it certainly DOESN'T always work out that nicely.
For squares we've got 3 and 7 both ending in 9. 8 and 2 both ending in 4. 9 and 1 both ending in 1. 4 and 6 both ending in 6.
Similar shit streams on down the ass for any even-power situation.
Does this trick hold true for all odd powers? I've got a feeling that it does, and would do so for any base. Couldn't be arsed to try to prove it though.
No, I have not tried a multitude of Windows phones, because you can't exactly borrow them to take them for a test drive, can you?
So you admit you have limited experience, and then you claim you can't test drive them? Ask a friend, go to any fucking phone store, hell, BUY a phone. You get like 30 days to return it no questions asked, even when you're contracted out the ass. You're a moron and a bigot.
Seeing as it can read the question instantly, instead of having to wait for Trebeck to read it out (or read it as text at human speed), I think it's got a serious advantage.
I don't think the computational I/O speed is really going to be a limiting factor in this. The crux will be the dataset it has and whatever kind of strategy (being more or less gutsy with the buzzer, bidding more or less on the daily doubles / final round, etc. based on confidence of being right) it uses.
So you can always figure out the last digit of the cube root of a number VERY easily (no, you don't need to memorize that list).
Then you use the size of the number to get a range, and then estimate. If you're feeling ballsy, you can go for it. Spend the first few seconds (before people buzz in) and get your range down. Then buzz in and spend a couple seconds estimating, then answer (just say "what is..." right when you buzz in). If someone else buzzes in first, more time for you to think.
Well shit, I thought the 1st round was going to have knockouts (boxing) that occurred during the first round, and in the second round, the category would be about knockouts occurring in the second round.
The system is not designed to access the web? Horse shit. That huge fucking pile of data is getting in there from the web. It won't be accessing the web during the game, but it's still a fucking cache of random shit (mostly geography and world history) from the internet.
None of the phones I mentioned use T9, they are full qwerty keyboards, with very usably-sized buttons.
So your only complaints are speed and security. I take it you've had viruses and information leaks from your windows mobile phone? I take it you've used a wide variety of equally-priced phones and tested the speed? Smells like bullshit dude.
Price? What the fuck are you talking about. Look at phone prices. Compare some phones of similar hardware and differing OSs.
You can't focus (ha) and be extra disciplined and mitigate bad vision. You can with ADHD. You can with a host of other problems society has seen on the rise lately.
If we lived by your mantra, fat people would all be excused for having genetic predispositions, violent criminals would treated with kid gloves because they claim hormonal imbalances, and drunk drivers would be coddled because they have an addiction.
Shit's hard for you. Sorry. But that's the way it is. To pass drugs out like candy and give everyone an excuse is bullshit, especially when most people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD don't even fucking have it.
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The handshake protocol is easy, the peer finding is the tricky part.
It's like email and twitter and instant messaging and facebook all in one.
Disgusting.
Hai guys I'm on the internet. :D
Doesn't work for 2 or 5...
2^41 = 2199023255552; % 100 = 52. 2 % 100 = 2.
52 != 2.
5^41 = 45474735088646411895751953125; % 100 = 25. 5 % 100 = 5.
25 != 5.
Possible?
It is.
BUT LETS ALL RUN AROUND DOING STUPID SHIT OUT OF FEAR.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
THAT'S BECAUSE I'M YELLING.
Too bad the roads would be too bright to be visible during the day.
Every few years some genius gets this idea, and the media does a story on it.
It's dumb, has endless problems, and won't actually solve anything.
Which trick?
If you're referring to finding out the last digit, it certainly DOESN'T always work out that nicely.
For squares we've got 3 and 7 both ending in 9. 8 and 2 both ending in 4. 9 and 1 both ending in 1. 4 and 6 both ending in 6.
Similar shit streams on down the ass for any even-power situation.
Does this trick hold true for all odd powers? I've got a feeling that it does, and would do so for any base. Couldn't be arsed to try to prove it though.
No, you missed my point.
And you said so, yourself:
"So? Your point?"
Don't respond to my post, then put your own point in when you don't even get my point, then claim I don't get yours. Seriously, wtf?
No, I have not tried a multitude of Windows phones, because you can't exactly borrow them to take them for a test drive, can you?
So you admit you have limited experience, and then you claim you can't test drive them?
Ask a friend, go to any fucking phone store, hell, BUY a phone. You get like 30 days to return it no questions asked, even when you're contracted out the ass.
You're a moron and a bigot.
Then I'll dab your eye with wet cement and then dab your other eye with molten asphalt and you tell me which is REALLY easier ON your eyes.
If only your user name was 0x0CD7FD.
Game Set and Match.
Uh, no.
A few interns were told to trawl wikipedia to grab data and form it into statements (probably prolog style).
I guaranfuckingtee it.
The game IS being rigged for the machine - the answers will be given to it in text. It won't have to press a physical button on a buzzer. Etc.
You claim you can fix bad vision with focus, and say you can't do the same for ADHD?
Sir, can I go home? Damn mine took my leg off.
NO SOLDIER, just stick with and focus hard.
But Johnny got to go home and he just forgot to make his bed and lace his boots!
No amount of training or determination will help that poor boy. He's a HERO, you hear?!
Seeing as it can read the question instantly, instead of having to wait for Trebeck to read it out (or read it as text at human speed), I think it's got a serious advantage.
I don't think the computational I/O speed is really going to be a limiting factor in this. The crux will be the dataset it has and whatever kind of strategy (being more or less gutsy with the buzzer, bidding more or less on the daily doubles / final round, etc. based on confidence of being right) it uses.
It's not like playing chess against the Russians.
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Assume it's a perfect cube.
x^3 is 6 digits, so we're looking at numbers from about 50 to 100.
x^3 = 4XX
6^3 = 216
7^3 = 343
8^3 = 512
70 < x < 80
x^3 ends in an 2, so the cube root must end in an 8.
78.
Seriously though, square roots are easy peasy.
Cube roots let you use the awesome property that:
0 - 0
1 - 1
2 - 8
3 - 7
4 - 4
5 - 5
6 - 6
7 - 3
8 - 2
So you can always figure out the last digit of the cube root of a number VERY easily (no, you don't need to memorize that list).
Then you use the size of the number to get a range, and then estimate. If you're feeling ballsy, you can go for it. Spend the first few seconds (before people buzz in) and get your range down. Then buzz in and spend a couple seconds estimating, then answer (just say "what is..." right when you buzz in). If someone else buzzes in first, more time for you to think.
4th powers are just doing the square root twice.
The list for 5th power roots is neat, too.
0 - 0
1 - 1
2 - 2
3 - 3
4 - 4
5 - 5
6 - 6
7 - 7
8 - 8
9 - 9
0 - 0
Speech recognition?
The machine will be receiving a text file of the question.
Hell, I bet the thing is always the first to the buzzer too.
Well shit, I thought the 1st round was going to have knockouts (boxing) that occurred during the first round, and in the second round, the category would be about knockouts occurring in the second round.
The system is not designed to access the web?
Horse shit.
That huge fucking pile of data is getting in there from the web. It won't be accessing the web during the game, but it's still a fucking cache of random shit (mostly geography and world history) from the internet.
None of the phones I mentioned use T9, they are full qwerty keyboards, with very usably-sized buttons.
So your only complaints are speed and security.
I take it you've had viruses and information leaks from your windows mobile phone? I take it you've used a wide variety of equally-priced phones and tested the speed? Smells like bullshit dude.
Price? What the fuck are you talking about. Look at phone prices. Compare some phones of similar hardware and differing OSs.
You can't focus (ha) and be extra disciplined and mitigate bad vision.
You can with ADHD. You can with a host of other problems society has seen on the rise lately.
If we lived by your mantra, fat people would all be excused for having genetic predispositions, violent criminals would treated with kid gloves because they claim hormonal imbalances, and drunk drivers would be coddled because they have an addiction.
Shit's hard for you. Sorry. But that's the way it is.
To pass drugs out like candy and give everyone an excuse is bullshit, especially when most people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD don't even fucking have it.
"We're not all born equal, certainly nobody better, but certainly many worse off."
Yeah...
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