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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corsair on November 13, 2005, 04:32:13 pm

Title: Powers of 2
Post by: Corsair on November 13, 2005, 04:32:13 pm
Pretty neat little thing going on there with the postcount. Random to the extreme but sorta cool anyway just because... I dunno, because it's new? Yeah, just thought I'd say that I really like it.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Kosh on November 13, 2005, 04:35:52 pm
To think: I never got past Ursa before they changed it. :(


;)
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Dark RevenantX on November 13, 2005, 04:45:57 pm
Cool
Nice feature!
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: redsniper on November 13, 2005, 04:48:03 pm
They were Shivan ship classes a few days ago...
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 13, 2005, 05:20:29 pm
I would like powers of e better. :D
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Corsair on November 13, 2005, 05:40:45 pm
And here I thought you'd be the one most excited about it...
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 13, 2005, 05:49:44 pm
It is cool, just that it could be better. :D

Although the ~ should be replaced by < or something. ~ means the limit of the quotient goes to 1 and makes little sense there. :p
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: kode on November 13, 2005, 06:08:12 pm
[postcount] << Inf
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 13, 2005, 07:25:12 pm
It is cool, just that it could be better. :D

Although the ~ should be replaced by < or something. ~ means the limit of the quotient goes to 1 and makes little sense there. :p
I believe they were going for the symbol for approximately equal.  Also, it should be >, not <, as it's the power of 2 below your postcount.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 13, 2005, 07:29:45 pm
I would like powers of e better. :D

You are such a math nerd. :p :D

Yes, I know his math background. Hence, this was teh funneh.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Corsair on November 13, 2005, 08:36:27 pm
test:

Spoiler:
we need spoiler tags

hurrah!
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Galemp on November 13, 2005, 11:55:41 pm
The trouble with this is that it really tapers off. There's thousands of posts between 210 and 212 so there's no real progression there for the long term members.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 12:18:21 am
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I believe they were going for the symbol for approximately equal.  Also, it should be >, not <, as it's the power of 2 below your postcount.

You're right, I just noticed. ≈ is the approximately equals sign, but > would be better since you could have 8191 posts and it would still say 8191 ≈ 212 even though 213 is 8192.

You are such a math nerd. :p :D
Yes, I know his math background. Hence, this was teh funneh.

I suppose you have come to expect that by now. :D

test:

Spoiler:
we need spoiler tags

hurrah!

We also need the lvlshot tags fixed, for that matter. The celebration thread is looking kind of messed up at the moment, especially with my oversized screenshots.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Bobboau on November 14, 2005, 03:20:04 am
cooool! :D
for us comp sci guys that is great. :yes:
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Fragrag on November 14, 2005, 12:23:31 pm
Cool, nice and nifty (Just posting to see mine :D)
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: vyper on November 14, 2005, 12:35:56 pm
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We also need the lvlshot tags fixed, for that matter. The celebration thread is looking kind of messed up at the moment, especially with my oversized screenshots.

/me grins like a cheschire cat and looks at Sandy :p
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 02:45:40 pm
cooool! :D
for us comp sci guys that is great. :yes:

I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Sandwich on November 14, 2005, 05:00:17 pm
We also need the lvlshot tags fixed, for that matter. The celebration thread is looking kind of messed up at the moment, especially with my oversized screenshots.

What's broke about them??
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 14, 2005, 05:08:48 pm
They don't actually resize the image at all. It just gets shown in the normal size but is cropped on the right. Here is an example: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35883.50.html

[edit] oh wait, they do resize it, just not the whole way. Something's off in any case. :)
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Bobboau on November 14, 2005, 05:42:09 pm
wow this is like a whole new ranking system,

I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D

silence ye lowly 12'th power, do not defy my 13'th might!

but realy it tells you in a glance just were you are on the posting food chain, I'm 2^13 you are 2^12 so you know right away I have made twice as many posts as you.

...:p
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Corsair on November 14, 2005, 07:14:21 pm
The perfect thing for a collection of sci-fi/math/science/odds&ends/random people!
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 14, 2005, 07:51:04 pm
I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D
Engineers are superior. :p
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Setekh on November 15, 2005, 06:37:08 am
wow this is like a whole new ranking system,

I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D

silence ye lowly 12'th power, do not defy my 13'th might!

but realy it tells you in a glance just were you are on the posting food chain, I'm 2^13 you are 2^12 so you know right away I have made twice as many posts as you.

...:p

:lol:

You make me laugh, Bob. :p Anyway, glad you guys like the new system.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Col. Fishguts on November 15, 2005, 06:49:06 am
I guess 2 and e is the difference between a CS guy and a math guy. :D
Engineers are superior. :p

Quoted for truth ;)
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 15, 2005, 09:27:03 am
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Engineers are superior.

Engineers mostly use e as well, so it's a moot point. :p

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but realy it tells you in a glance just were you are on the posting food chain, I'm 2^13 you are 2^12 so you know right away I have made twice as many posts as you.

...:p

It just happens to be that way in this case. As I said before, if I had 8191 and you had 8192, it would still show the same thing. :p
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 15, 2005, 11:54:15 am
Engineers use what works :p

If it happens to be e, so be it.  And as for us using e, I haven't used it yet.  The formulas I've seen within my major had things like:

N = Ns * erfc(x / sqrt(dt))
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: CP5670 on November 15, 2005, 12:03:37 pm
Which is typically e, since linear DEs frequently have solutions containing those (and constant coefficient ones always do). erfc is really just an integral of e-x² with some normalizing factor added in.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 15, 2005, 12:12:40 pm
Poor example. Didn't know about the e in there as I'm a freshmen still, so we used a graphical solution. In that case, that's the only one involving e, then.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to know what that formula is, it's for calculating diffusion in silicon.
Title: Re: Powers of 2
Post by: Sandwich on November 15, 2005, 04:24:18 pm
They don't actually resize the image at all. It just gets shown in the normal size but is cropped on the right. Here is an example: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35883.50.html

[edit] oh wait, they do resize it, just not the whole way. Something's off in any case. :)

Get a screenshot for me, please. It looks fine in Firefox...