Shameful Admissions
- I never understood why n0 = 1; this has always felt like a fundamental character flaw.
- I empathize with “otherkin,” and am very fortunate not to have heard of the phenomenon when I was a sad, lonely 14-year-old.
- My comfort movies include Anne of Green Gables, Love Actually, and Newsies. Edit: Also Studio Ghibli’s “Whispers of the Heart,” which I can’t believe I forgot to list first.
- I watched the first two episodes of Fooly Cooly and failed to see genius where so many others seem to.
- One of my greatest joys in life is a good role-playing game session.
- I don’t know enough about any given medium to be a really effective snob about it.
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February 24th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Axioms:
1. na * nb = n(a+b)
2. n-1 = 1/n
3. n1 = n
Derivation:
4. n0= n(-1 + 1)
5. n(-1 + 1) = n-1 * n1 [1]
6. n-1 * n1 = 1/n * n [2,3]
Therefore, n^0 = n/n = 1 (if n != 0) [4, 6]
February 24th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Wow, you have some weird formatting module which tries to deal with exponentiation but doesn’t do it right.
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February 24th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Yeah, everything gets formatted in textile, including comments. Never thought to mention it. I edited your comment to work properly (I think) but the upshot is if you use a carat to start an exponent, you have to delimit it with a trailing carat.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I believe even 0**0 = 1 (I think that’s the FORTRAN exponentiation operator). Thats zero to the zeroth power equals one. Never proved it, but I think it can be done using factorials.
March 13th, 2007 at 2:30 am
er, did you watch Furi Kuri dubbed or subbed? judging by “Fooly Cooly” i would think dubbed… which might explain the not-seeing of genius.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Subbed. That was the “official” English title, so I assumed that’s what it was called here.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:43 am
sad. well, i guess it’s not for everyone. you tried. :]
March 13th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I may try again, but it just seemed like random self-indulgent wackiness to me. What did you like about it?
March 14th, 2007 at 11:45 am
it somewhat shames me to say this, but i haven’t rewatched it in at least two years. from what i recall, i liked the art a lot, and how the dialogue and action gave the characters a lot of depth (for me) while remaining fairly simple. might be time for me to watch it again!