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[DuckofTindalos]

Bada-Bump!

[niceguy2005]

Finalnd, Denmark, Sweden and Norway seem like they would be nice places to live if they weren't so cold.

[Mynok]

They are nice places to live because they are cold.

Mosquitos only one month a year.
Long summer days.
Long winter nights. [:D]
Snow.
Did I mention long winter nights?

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway seem like they would be nice places to live if they weren't so cold.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! That's very funny... We have the beginnings of a bitch-ass heatwave in this country right now. At this very moment (0015 hours CET) it is 29 degrees Centigrade (84.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in my living room. There's a little bit of a breeze, but unfortunately it's hot air.

[rtrapasso]

OK - Simpson's Fanatics:

In one of the Halloween episodes, Homer goes into the mystical third dimension. Shortly after he first enters, there is a blackboard on which is written an equation: 1782(raised to the twelth power) + 1841 (raised to the twelth power) = 1922 (raised to the twelth power). i can't write it well here since we don't have exponents...

What is the significance of the equation?? [&:] [&:]

[DuckofTindalos]

None, I suspect, but it's 2,541e+39...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

None, I suspect, but it's 2,541e+39...

Actually, IF the equation had been true (it is not), it would disprove probably the most famous (only just recently proved) theorem in mathematics: Fermat's Last Theorem, that for any exponent greater than 2, there are no nonzero whole numbers a, b, and c where a^n + b^n = c^n (the "^n" means raised to the nth power).

The equation was still unproved when the show came out... and if you plug it into your calculator, the equation will in fact balance. However, it is a trick that takes place due to rounding errors in your computer/calculator.

Turns out many of the writers on the Simpsons are mathematicians, scientists and computer scientists and apparently hide little mathematical puzzles and jokes in the show.

[rtrapasso]

At this very moment (0015 hours CET) it is 29 degrees Centigrade (84.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in my living room.

Ah, so it IS "cold"* there! [:D] It's been running around 40 degrees C here - of course we do have AC and *generally* don't have it at 84 indoors...


* cold being a relative term...

[DuckofTindalos]

Plus, 84 degrees Fahrenheit IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING NIGHT??? No thank you very much...

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Actually, IF the equation had been true (it is not), it would disprove probably the most famous (only just recently proved) theorem in mathematics: Fermat's Last Theorem, that for any exponent greater than 2, there are no nonzero whole numbers a, b, and c where a^n + b^n = c^n (the "^n" means raised to the nth power).

The equation was still unproved when the show came out... and if you plug it into your calculator, the equation will in fact balance. However, it is a trick that takes place due to rounding errors in your computer/calculator.

Turns out many of the writers on the Simpsons are mathematicians, scientists and computer scientists and apparently hide little mathematical puzzles and jokes in the show.

Well, whoopie... I'm an economist, not a mathmagician... (catch that one?)[:'(]

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Plus, 84 degrees Fahrenheit IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING NIGHT??? No thank you very much...

Before climate change began to kick in, Denmark saw a really cold winter once every two decades, and a really hot summer at about the same frequency. And no, we don't have polar bears wandering the streets either...[:'(]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Plus, 84 degrees Fahrenheit IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING NIGHT??? No thank you very much...

Is it that temp outside, or is this just an indoor thing? 84 degrees In the middle of the night has got us beat!![&o] [&o]

[DuckofTindalos]

Well, it's indoors, the result of my block absorbing lots of heat radiation throughout the day. I guesstimate that it's about 20-22 degrees Centigrade outside, which is unpleasant enough...

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

By the way - the snake showed back up again: wife just sent me this...




Just kidding, guys!! [:'(]

I bet that one hurt coming out!

[rtrapasso]

Oh Great and Glorious Thread, we beseach thee to show the others the errors of their ways and devote their energies to the one True Thread!!

[DuckofTindalos]

I'm afraid that's probably too late... Now where'd I put my Guilty-Until-Proven-Flammable kit?

[DuckofTindalos]

A most righteous bump...

[rtrapasso]

Morning-at-work-tithe...

[rtrapasso]

Well, folks on the anti-Thread are inviting us to join them as their hell is much worse than our hell... somehow, i don't think that is a real recommendation...

[Mynok]

Yeah.....sounds kinda like the IRS inviting you to bring your records in for a tax review.