Zhanga: September 29, 2005

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Thursday, September 29, 2005 (2 comments)

I need to go to sleep, but before I do so, I'd like to clear up some stuff for Yujing. It seems that he's a bit confused about a few things:

1. The search terms from the last post were from server logs, not from me actually trying out various obscene combinations of words in search engines. Someone else searched for those, not me.
2. Everytime We Touch is not ubergay. You are ubergay. It is catchy, though, and you are not. That doesn't even make sense.
3. If they give you that crap about uncleared foreign national again just pull the race card. If that fails, pull out the science bowl frisbee.
4. Generally, oil fields don't lie in the mantle of the earth. So don't dig for them there.
5. "Gutenberg" should elicit the following mental responses, in order: the printing press, the discontinuity, Project Gutenberg, and then the Bible. Why? Because the Bible is part of Project Gutenberg, and PG wouldn't exist if not for the printing press. (And the Bible would be quite rare.) The discontinuity is thrown in there for good measure just because it's cool.
6. Duke > Harvard.

This last bit goes to everyone: If you actually thought from the last post that three things I hate about myself are that I'm short, fat, and pale >.<, then you are an idiot and should probably shoot yourself right now. I was obviously making fun of a short, fat, and pale pal of mine. (O.o)

One last thing. Try to solve this:

Given a circle C, draw n (>2) congruent circles evenly spread around C, with the centers of all n circles lying on C. Furthermore, each of these circles must be tangent to its two neighbors. So, for example, if n = some large number like 100, then basically you have a large circle C with 100 little circles arranged in a ring on the circumference of C, with no gaps in the ring.

You know the center and radius of C. The job is to determine the center and radius of each of the small circles.

That was the computer science assignment that I was just doing. Now, get this. In the instructions, it said that we may find this formula useful. What formula? C = 2πr. And that was the only formula given. Thanks, what a helpful formula. In any case, I ended up with some sines and cosines and π's and n's. That useless formula didn't even show up anywhere.

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