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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: August 08, 2014, 08:08:05 PM »
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?
« on: August 08, 2014, 11:45:15 AM »
Meanwhile, I might not be so absent as expected - a couple of experiments have shown that I can read and post here using the browser on my phone. Yay for technology!
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Guess Who Will Post Next... II!
« on: August 07, 2014, 09:58:45 PM »
*rouses from sleep on a bed of gold and jewels, looks around for the source of that annoying noise*
Othko97.
Othko97.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Guess Who Will Post Next... II!
« on: August 07, 2014, 07:41:12 PM »
To name a thing is to call a thing 
Jubal.
Jubal.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?
« on: August 07, 2014, 07:35:05 PM »You might be surprised.This sounds like the voice of experience. Tell us more, please
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: August 07, 2014, 05:42:20 PM »
Circle.
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Rosetta space probe, Philae lander, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
« on: August 06, 2014, 11:29:06 PM »
As you might have heard, the Rosetta space probe arrived at its target (comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) today, after a ten-year journey to get it into the right orbit - see this BBC news article. I'm looking forward to the science reports, and also to finding out what the surface of a comet actually looks like.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?
« on: August 06, 2014, 09:32:21 PM »
Fortunately not: Germany has good beer, schnitzel and strudel, and I doubt I'd find any of these in Mordor.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?
« on: August 06, 2014, 08:03:38 PM »Geez, Glaury, you sure do get around.One tries. Angband, Anfauglith, Tumhalad, Nargothrond, Brethil - and now Germany.
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Which part of science interests you the most?
« on: August 06, 2014, 06:48:23 PM »You people sicken me.Do I sense there may be another, unwritten, law of Wibulnubniblia: "no maths allowed"?
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?
« on: August 06, 2014, 06:36:39 PM »
Merely a tactical withdrawal, I assure you. I will return soon with my hypnotic stare and my army of city-sacking orcs. Mwahahaha! 
Yes, thank you. I'm looking forward to my holiday, and to coming back.
Yes, thank you. I'm looking forward to my holiday, and to coming back.
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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Greetings, Exilioi!
« on: August 06, 2014, 08:00:30 AM »Child!Hello, mum
Welcome to ExilianMany thanks, and thank you also to Othko97. I'm enjoying being here.
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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: ExiliCon - The Aftermath
« on: August 06, 2014, 07:49:32 AM »
I would suggest that the date of a winter ExiliCon in Manchester should be chosen with some care.
First, it probably should be after the middle of February, to try to avoid problems with the weather (snow, storms, etc.).
Second, if (and it's quite a big if) you want the convention to be a "shop window" for Exilian, I think it needs to be before the end of university term time. Manchester has many thousands of students, which probably translates to at least some hundreds interested in the things Exilian does. There are probably RPG and other games societies that would be willing to advertise a convention to their members.
First, it probably should be after the middle of February, to try to avoid problems with the weather (snow, storms, etc.).
Second, if (and it's quite a big if) you want the convention to be a "shop window" for Exilian, I think it needs to be before the end of university term time. Manchester has many thousands of students, which probably translates to at least some hundreds interested in the things Exilian does. There are probably RPG and other games societies that would be willing to advertise a convention to their members.
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Partitions of Numbers
« on: August 05, 2014, 07:23:30 PM »
Interesting - thanks for posting this. I played with this briefly, and then decided to read about it instead. Hopefully the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(number_theory)) is all true.
Two particular points that surprised me:
Two particular points that surprised me:
- There's no recurrence formula for getting a partition number simply from the previous one or previous several.
- This area is related to pentagonal numbers (1, 5, 12, ...)
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Going to be Away?
« on: August 05, 2014, 07:59:20 AM »
It seems a bit strange that to say that I will be away for a while so soon after joining; nevertheless, that's what's happening. I will be on holiday from Saturday 9th to Monday 18th inclusive, meandering around Germany and neighbouring countries by train. For some engineering quirkiness, there is a good chance that this will involve at least one, possibly two, train ferry crossings.
Also, I still need to do quite a lot of organising (route planning and hotel booking, mainly), so I probably won't be terribly active here for the next few days either.
Also, I still need to do quite a lot of organising (route planning and hotel booking, mainly), so I probably won't be terribly active here for the next few days either.