Murkrow

"How on Earth are you meant to calculate something with three nested square roots without a calculator in less than 20 minutes? I'm having trouble with the practice exam and I have a calculator and wolfram alpha and the solution sheet helping me do that."

unless you need ludicrous precision you basically only take the outer root "properly" and for the inner roots you just only take it only as far as you need without affecting the final answer. if you misjudge you'll probably be a bit off in your last sig fig but like. like if you have something like sqrt(sqrt(sqrt(2)+sqrt(3))+sqrt(sqrt(5)+sqrt(7))), you basically get okay, so sqrt 2 + sqrt 3 ~= pi, sqrt 5 + sqrt 7 ~= 4.9, sqrt pi (~= 1.77) + sqrt 4.9 (= 7/sqrt 10 ~= 2.21) ~= 3.98, sqrt of that ~= 1.995. the actual value is closer to 1.996, but yeah.

... it took me like ten minutes just to do that though so it probably isn't practical under exam conditions anyway, though. ... are you sure there isn't an easier way to do it? or maybe you're not actually expected to get such a precise answer?

You can actually search for stuff if you don't have it seen! There's an option at the bottom of the letter index that says "Which Pokémon?" If you can type it correctly, you can search it!

And oh, I see. I've tried to do that before, but it's frustrating to do legally!

Yikes, monthly would be terrible! I wouldn't do it.

Yeah, and BW2 had the best Wi-Fi stuff, in my opinion. :c

Nope, but I can get some! I can borrow a Yveltal from my brother after he beats the game (he just got it for free yesterday), and I can get an Aromatisse over the GTS! Obviously you can't keep the Yveltal, but you can feel free to keep the Aromatisse, if I can find one.

:c That's really dumb. I'm just happy that, for once, they didn't overprice it-- for a yearly fee, I expected closer to fifteen or twenty dollars! So five or seven isn't too bad.

Yeah, it's pretty dumb. It's even worse because Gen VI didn't get a GTS Negotiations, so we'll have to go without that.

Well, it's only five USD (how much is that in £?). I can help you, if you'd like, I've got most of my National Dex in Black 2.

And thank you!

Nope! Not thanks to Bank. Thank you for asking, though!

How are things?

Recommendations... no, none at the moment, unfortunately.

And yes, you were (though the first four were obvious).

I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY WITNESSED THAT LIVE

The domain "'s Mask" may be up for sale by its owner!

But yep. Qvalador was getting a little stale.

Ah, that one! I remember that. It made me laugh.

til brock is also skippable

rby: you can basically do lt. surge, erika, sabrina, koga in whatever order you like, and blaine at any time after koga. and due to mild glitchery, you can totally just walk past the saffron guard if you try, avoiding the need for cut and misty; and the tower can be done without going through the game corner with a poké doll.

thus, suggestion: order brock, mt. moon, bill, pokémon tower, koga, safari zone, blaine, silph co., sabrina, erika, lt. surge, misty, giovanni at viridian + disband team rocket, giovanni at game corner (optional), then the league.

eh, I'm not very good at explaining to people who aren't you, either.

also I keep insisting that programming doesn't require very smart but nobody. believes me. I mean, being smart probably totally helps, but like, you it's not the smart that's the thing, it's. like.

giving directions.

to a thing which doesn't know about things.

not smart could probably even be helpful depending on what exactly that not smart was not smart was not smart for.

A reference to Iwata Asks in general actually. But yeah (What parody are you talking about? There's a few of them out there)

Oh, sure! I'm on Showdown now as Hausekatze! I'm also sitting in the CAP Project room if you want to be able to click on my name. Do you want to also try fighting my sister? (she's sonic29)

oh uh

... my explains of programming have basically always failed to actually help people but like. okay I won't do that.

"Then I decided I wanted to make you be able to play against the computer which I thought I could do, since I had played against my friend so much that we'd worked out a strategy do never lose. But I was at a loss as to how to program it."

after the "don't lose" heuristic there's only a few special cases, and even those are eliminated with a bit of lookahead I think?

That, and as I mentioned before, the uncanny personality matchups. Even in other similarly-themed animes (Azumanga Daioh/Lucky Star/etc.), there was never as close a match as these.

As an aside, in the Japanese MLP dub, there have been three more songs (and on the latter two, I think they even outdid the original).

By the way, all this is rather interesting for me, because I got into MLP:FiM for its resemblance to K-on, so it's come full circle for me. :)

It's the second.

Anyway, I foresee a flood of crossover art after EqG 2 gets released. :)

(Actually, it's kinda funny that they're pretty much going with a Westernized K-on as the concept, because the five lead characters from K-on [and Nodoka to make it an even 6] and the Mane 6 can be matched up pretty well. XD)

Seriously though, I might just watch it to see how it fares when compared against K-on, although I don't really like its chances...