Here I was all excited because I thought it was a writing contest to insult IE in 6 words. My mind was all ramped up for creativity. Now I have the mental equivalent of blue balls...
I don't know about anybody else, but when I see a suspended tile ceiling, I start thinking about running around underneath it, hitting a bouncing ball.
I knew I shouldn't have played Atari as much when I was little.
I've always thought it would be neat to have something like a programming "war" - design some game that they have to write the code to play, and then have them run against each other. This is made even easier (and useful?) now with object-oriented being the stressed paradigm - just have each person make a "GameStrategy" object tied to a common interface, and run them with a "GameField" or something. Almost like chess or checkers, only have a bunch more different and interesting games. And have it once every month or week or whatever the interest!
Any ideas on what sorts of games one could use, though?
Re:What is special about prime numbers?
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Fun with Prime Numbers
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Throughout history, mathematicians have been fascinated with prime numbers - the sheer concept of indivisibility is one aspect (I mean, here they have numbers of infinite possible size that cannot ever be taken down into smaller whole units), and at the same time, these primes are the building blocks of all other numbers. Many great mathematicians have talked of prime numbers and developed more theories on them. Euclid proved there was an infinite number of prime numbers (basically showing that given any number of prime numbers, he could create a bigger prime number, or a number who had as a factor a prime number not included in this n). Riemann had his famous zeta function about the distribution of primes. We've named a great piece of beef after them (ok, not really, but I couldn't help the corny joke).
Long story short, prime numbers seem fascinating (at least to me) because they are the building blocks, they are indivisible, and they seem to appear at random (that is, unless we can prove the Riemann Hypothesis):-) That said, I concede prime numbers hold very little interesting value to many of those who find math too blah (the distribution of prime numbers mystery is hardly the mystery of the fate of Atlantis!)
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Here I was all excited because I thought it was a writing contest to insult IE in 6 words. My mind was all ramped up for creativity. Now I have the mental equivalent of blue balls ...
I don't know about anybody else, but when I see a suspended tile ceiling, I start thinking about running around underneath it, hitting a bouncing ball. I knew I shouldn't have played Atari as much when I was little.
I've always thought it would be neat to have something like a programming "war" - design some game that they have to write the code to play, and then have them run against each other. This is made even easier (and useful?) now with object-oriented being the stressed paradigm - just have each person make a "GameStrategy" object tied to a common interface, and run them with a "GameField" or something. Almost like chess or checkers, only have a bunch more different and interesting games. And have it once every month or week or whatever the interest! Any ideas on what sorts of games one could use, though?
Throughout history, mathematicians have been fascinated with prime numbers - the sheer concept of indivisibility is one aspect (I mean, here they have numbers of infinite possible size that cannot ever be taken down into smaller whole units), and at the same time, these primes are the building blocks of all other numbers. Many great mathematicians have talked of prime numbers and developed more theories on them. Euclid proved there was an infinite number of prime numbers (basically showing that given any number of prime numbers, he could create a bigger prime number, or a number who had as a factor a prime number not included in this n). Riemann had his famous zeta function about the distribution of primes. We've named a great piece of beef after them (ok, not really, but I couldn't help the corny joke). Long story short, prime numbers seem fascinating (at least to me) because they are the building blocks, they are indivisible, and they seem to appear at random (that is, unless we can prove the Riemann Hypothesis) :-) That said, I concede prime numbers hold very little interesting value to many of those who find math too blah (the distribution of prime numbers mystery is hardly the mystery of the fate of Atlantis!)