I'm cool with the fact that it exists, but I'd rather not discuss it in here. The nature of the thing just seems a bit too explicit.

So, for toy-only ponies that we've started developed personalities for: I think we have Tealove (of course), Snowcatcher, The Irreverent, Honeybuzz, Bumblesweet, and Daisy Dreams. Anypony else?

I'd prefer if we didn't discuss it here either.

edited 10th Apr '12 12:34:25 PM by storyyeller

I'm okay with not discussing it here as well, it's just that even if it's a perfectly-worksafe picture (and I do make sure of that before I post), the reaction invariably tends to be "eeew" or variants thereof.

Now, on another note, anyone know what episode's going to be on this weekend since A Canterlot Wedding won't air until next weekend?

I probably wouldn't have even realized that it was Futashy picture if you hadn't pointed it out.

Hello everyone, talking about... a subject that doesn't seem to be very popular here. And I actually don't mind... that thing either. It's just not my cup of tea.

So how are things?

Hello, ilsemmr.

I'm doing ok.

Bye the way Ilsemmr, what was the definition you used in class?

edited 10th Apr '12 12:53:02 PM by storyyeller

That's good. But I wonder if we'll get anything on Saturday. I remember the weekend before "Putting Your Hoof Down" aired, there was nothing on the "empty" weekend. But I wonder what the little wedding special thing with the hostess will be about. Will it air before, after, or during the episode?

Well, it's more like I have a different way to think of congruence and modular things. But here's the definition from class:

"Two integers, a and b, are congruent mod n if (a-b) is divisible by n."

It's just that I think more in terms of remainders when I have to do exercises on them.

edited 10th Apr '12 12:56:25 PM by ilsemmr

Well that's basically the same thing. I was just trying to find a way that would be simpler for a non math person to understand.

edited 10th Apr '12 12:59:49 PM by storyyeller

I was never taught modular arithmetic in high school. I had to learn it because of the mod operator in programming languages, and it was pretty instrumental to programming a basic Tic-Tac-Toe AI as my first real programming project.

Not to mention that almost all computer math is done mod a power of two anyway.

Hello, everypony.

Hello, Cherilee. Do you know why you always have that planet and PDE on the blackboard?

Hi Cherilee.

evening Cheerilee.

@story Wait. How do PD Es differ from OD Es?

And hello, Cheerilee

edited 10th Apr '12 1:15:54 PM by crowlover

Hello Cheerilee. And yeah, I'm not doing anything that does with computers and stuff, so to me the whole thing is kind of... frustrating

@story Oh, that. Those were the last things the teacher before me put on the board before I took the job. I can't use chalk without getting a weird taste in my mouth and just never felt the need to erase it.

I think PD Es are ones that involve partial derivatives.

^ If you haven't erased it, why isn't it there all the time?

edited 10th Apr '12 1:20:51 PM by storyyeller

Thanks. Only solved OD Es up to this point.

In other news, can anyone think of a way to prove that 2^(-x) + 2^(-1/x) <= 1 for all positive real x?

I tried AM-GM Ineq. but it didn't seem to help.

edited 10th Apr '12 1:24:13 PM by storyyeller

Oh gods, it's a math more advanced than Algebra 2! Burn it!

How is that advanced? You know what exponents are, right?

edited 10th Apr '12 1:27:06 PM by storyyeller

@story Hmm... Are you sure about that?