Quote:Originally Posted by EFV Oh you 'mericuhns and your horrible contributions to popular music (not saying us swedes have been much better the last few years).
Quote:Originally Posted by tagutcow I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If it's that the binary expansion of pi contains- non-contiguously- all the 1s and 0s necessary to construct every other number, then yes, it's a...
Quote:Originally Posted by tagutcow It says that the decimal expansion of pi necessarily includes every possible digit combination by virtue of the fact it is an infinite, non-repeating series of digits. This is wrong, and trivially...
Quote:Originally Posted by tagutcow As a change of pace, here's a math fail:
I don't get it. This is silly and everything it says stems from something rather trivial, but why is it a 'math fail'?
Quote:Originally Posted by Gibonius Also diamonds do absolutely reflect. The only reason they cause dispersion is because a well-cut diamond enables many reflections about the interior faces of the stone and thus a path length long...
Quote:Originally Posted by lawyerdad The word, or throwing people out of windows?
Well, the joke is that the word is French so it implies that the action is more common.
Quote:Originally Posted by HRoi i dont get the word "defenestration". does getting thrown out of a window happen so much in English-speaking countries that we have to have a word for it?
and even if so, why would we create a word...
Quote:Originally Posted by imatlas No one in Europe eats anything disgusting. Ever.
I said it sounds decent -- as in, not bad. You seem to be going out of your way to try and insult me and it's pretty juvenile and seems like it'd...
