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[Rowanas]

How would someone who can read but not play DF know what we were jabbering about?

[Knirisk]

Because oftentimes the DF animals have the first letter of their name as their
picture. Thus, one would simply need to look at the first letter of "elephant" to see the E. It would really only be useful if you wanted to encrypt mathematical
equations.

[LordZorintrhox]

Meh, we have most of the Greek alphabet at our disposal, and those object associations are far less than straight forward, ratman imp weight hoary marmot sapling pathing

[Rowanas]

That last one got me. I can't make head nor tail of it. I assume it isn't a mathematical problem...

[Dragooble]

see, this is exactly the reason i need to switch to the traditional ascii the next fort i make. it'll make reading this forum so much easier.

[Rowanas]

You shunned ASCII? DIE, VILE GELF! (goblin elf)

[LordZorintrhox]

If Rowanas is referring to what I posted just there, then I was simply demonstrating using greek letters for effect: "r-i-gamma-h-tau-?"  Gamma makes a 'g' sounds and tau makes a 't' sound.  So, "right?"

[Danarca]

You've made this into a math game requiring... What's it called in English, photosensitive? Photosensitive memory.
I think it's called...

Anyways, this is awesome

Photographic Memory.

That's the one

Elk stockpile mandrill cat chunk

...really? 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The central equation of special relativity, of course.

Smallest amount of water weapon coffin stockpile boulder ?

Sort of. Writing it that way isn't exactly true:

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 like my calc teacher always said, infinity is a location, not a value.  Example: the set of integers has infinitely many elements, as does the set of rational numbers.  But with little thought you easily come to the conclusion that the set of rational numbers has far more elements than the set of integers, if only because the set of rational numbers is the set of all possible unique ratios of the integers.

  More correctly it would be: giant lion fire imp hoary marmot, naked mole dog is thirsty turned a quarter turn ccw coffin, smallest amount of water weapon naked mole dog stockpile boulder.

And the nerdiness quotient for this thread is...

OVER 9000!!!

[Rowanas]

If Rowanas is referring to what I posted just there, then I was simply demonstrating using greek letters for effect: "r-i-gamma-h-tau-?"  Gamma makes a 'g' sounds and tau makes a 't' sound.  So, "right?"

ah. that's what got me. I wasn't translating DF to Greek to English. Dear god, what was I thinking? Dummkopf!

[Qmarx]

If Rowanas is referring to what I posted just there, then I was simply demonstrating using greek letters for effect: "r-i-gamma-h-tau-?"  Gamma makes a 'g' sounds and tau makes a 't' sound.  So, "right?"

ah. that's what got me. I wasn't translating DF to Greek to English. Dear god, what was I thinking? Dummkopf!

Apparently German.

[Rowanas]

German is one of the best languages. Beautiful germanic maidens can sound so sweet and alluring, while also giving angry men the best language in the world to shout in. For all its diversity, English has no such versatility.

Also, since we're translating in DF can I list it as one of the languages I speak on my CV? I'm bilingual!

[Sizik]

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 like my calc teacher always said, infinity is a location, not a value.  Example: the set of integers has infinitely many elements, as does the set of rational numbers.  But with little thought you easily come to the conclusion that the set of rational numbers has far more elements than the set of integers, if only because the set of rational numbers is the set of all possible unique ratios of the integers.

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Actually, the set of rationals has the same "number of elements" (cardinality) as the integers, as they can be put into a one-to-one correspondence:

• 1/1
• 1/2
• 2/1
• 3/1
• 2/2
• 1/3
• 1/4
• 2/3
• 3/2
• 4/1
• etc.

[LordZorintrhox]

Elk stockpile mandrill cat chunk

...really? 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The central equation of special relativity, of course.

Smallest amount of water weapon coffin stockpile boulder ?

Sort of. Writing it that way isn't exactly true:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 like my calc teacher always said, infinity is a location, not a value.  Example: the set of integers has infinitely many elements, as does the set of rational numbers.  But with little thought you easily come to the conclusion that the set of rational numbers has far more elements than the set of integers, if only because the set of rational numbers is the set of all possible unique ratios of the integers.

  More correctly it would be: giant lion fire imp hoary marmot, naked mole dog is thirsty turned a quarter turn ccw coffin, smallest amount of water weapon naked mole dog stockpile boulder.

And the nerdiness quotient for this thread is...

OVER 9000!!!

Much better.