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Author Topic: Granite's Law (and others)  (Read 2106 times)

codezero

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Re: Granite's Law (and others)
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2008, 05:09:16 pm »
The more opinions a suggestion thread gets, the more I think Toady should just do it how he wants.
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Re: Granite's Law (and others)
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2008, 05:22:58 pm »
Quote from: G-Flex on November 19, 2008, 04:08:30 pm
To inject some pedantry into this, this is mathematically impossibility since the chance would eventually exceed 100%.
What if you approach it from the other direction? The chance of it NOT happening decreases exponentially, but never reaches zero.
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Quote from: rkyeun on August 17, 2008, 12:26:22 pm
My stray dogs often chase fire imps back into the magma pipe and then continue fighting while burning and drowning in the lava. Truly their loyalty knows no bounds, but perhaps it should.

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Re: Granite's Law (and others)
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2008, 09:02:22 pm »
Quote from: Random832 on November 19, 2008, 04:31:38 pm
Quote from: G-Flex on November 19, 2008, 04:08:30 pm
the chance would eventually exceed 100%.

Anything less just wouldn't be dwarfy. (technically a probability larger than 100% could be taken to mean that it is probable that a number of trivial problems _greater than 1_ will have been solved using magma)
First and foremost of which, the existence of Nobles.
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Quote from: Vlynndar on April 02, 2009, 03:36:26 pm
"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
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Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
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Othob Rithol

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Re: Granite's Law (and others)
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2008, 08:08:39 pm »
Quote from: Granite26 on November 18, 2008, 03:30:43 pm
Granite's Law : As the length of any suggestion thread grows longer, the probability of someone tying in one of the most common suggestions approaches 1.

Complete agreement (see how many common suggestions came up in UD...even ones already in the first post).

This thread demonstrates Otho's Law:
% chance of thread being hijacked or side tracked = (degree of opportunity for pointless self expression)^(number of members with posting rights)
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JohnieRWilkins

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Re: Granite's Law (and others)
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2008, 10:26:00 pm »
I refuse non-peer reviewed, unpublished studies, because this is how stuff like Murphy's law get popular. This is complete drivel.
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Quote from: Yanlin on July 28, 2009, 02:20:12 pm
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Granite26

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Re: Granite's Law (and others)
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2008, 11:12:40 pm »
:-p

As far as DF is concerned, this IS peer review and publishing...
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