Aix Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 There was an experiment done where an engineer and a mathematician were both given the chance to be in a room with a beautiful naked woman sitting on a bed. Each minute, they would be allowed to close in two thirds of the distance between them and the woman. The mathematician gives up immediately, but the engineer goes on ahead. The mathematician says, "Why bother, you'll never actually reach her." The engineer said, "True, but I'll be close enough for all practical purposes." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 999,999. We keep decreasing by 1 every time, we'll never reach 0 in a reasonable amount of time. (Dividing by 3s makes things go quicker) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddamnit names are a pain Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 999,999. We keep decreasing by 1 every time, we'll never reach 0 in a reasonable amount of time. (Dividing by 3s makes things go quicker) If we divide by three starting here -1 = 0 Since we can only -1 or divide by 3 333,333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 111,111. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
宇佐見 蓮子@C94 Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 37,037 We're getting somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 12345.67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddamnit names are a pain Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 4115.223333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 1371.741 (Why are you an imperfect palindrome...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltimateIRS Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 1370.74074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074074... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 You were supposed to divide by 3. 456.913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltimateIRS Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 152.3045267489711934156378600823 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(GigaDrillBreaker) Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 Meh... ~50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 16.923 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
宇佐見 蓮子@C94 Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 I'm gonna divide by four because 3 is just kinda meh. 4,23075 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 1.06 Because I'm too lazy to write the whole answer out. Now you guys can minus one and just finish up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aix Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 Just in the nick of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 1,000,000. Sigh, here we go again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urayne Posted March 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 998,000 lets try minusing by 1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 997,000 OK, this is somewhat faster than counting down by 1s but slower than the older method we've went through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltimateIRS Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 996999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urayne Posted March 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 995000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 994000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urayne Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 993000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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