Word Up (No Matter Where You Say It)
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jheti
I can math on paper The Hard Way faster than you can in your head, jackhole.
YOU HAVE TO START ON THE LEFT.
I assure you, I do not.
To begin: force the end digits (rightmost) to equal zero.
Only the forward digits change, because you insist on left-right reading order.
There are only two laws in this most exalted shell game:
Two four six eight zero.
One three five seven nine one.
These never change. With them you can estimate absolutely anything, and arrive at a better answer faster than the definitive.
Speed always matters more than accuracy.
If you can murmur the incantation
Two three five seven eleven thirteen fifteen seventeen nineteen twenty-three twenty-nine, you are already beyond what you NEED for "life", per se.
And then there is the law of twos: twenty-two halves, and twenty-four halves, but twenty-nine (recall our previous enchantment!) does not.
Any number with a terminal digit of zero can be split at least in half.
Yes, presumably more, but when the whole business of numbers is literally nauseating to one, one starts where one must. Isn't it so.
The rest is buttons on a machine, which, again, can be memorized as a series of shapes, to spit out the answer with, if not alacrity, then an average amount of speed, while pressing the wool of Normal tight across all the eyes in the room. Which requires additional effort, understand.
Similarly, Newtonian physics are entirely sufficient to explain the world in which most of us live. The science of patterns is pretty, but not sufficiently absorbing to hold my attention when there's delicious history to examine.
I am by nature a cataloger of things, but only of interesting things.
For example: celerestory, lightwell, apse.
Basic, mafic, ultramafic. I'm still not clear on extrusive versus intrusive. The majority of very interesting pretty facets are silicate and acidic in origin. (They are such things as countertops are made on.)
...Don't touch your Google in public!
Unless it's to type in Cueva de los Cristales and DEMAND PICTURES.
YOU HAVE TO START ON THE LEFT.
I assure you, I do not.
To begin: force the end digits (rightmost) to equal zero.
Only the forward digits change, because you insist on left-right reading order.
There are only two laws in this most exalted shell game:
Two four six eight zero.
One three five seven nine one.
These never change. With them you can estimate absolutely anything, and arrive at a better answer faster than the definitive.
Speed always matters more than accuracy.
If you can murmur the incantation
Two three five seven eleven thirteen fifteen seventeen nineteen twenty-three twenty-nine, you are already beyond what you NEED for "life", per se.
And then there is the law of twos: twenty-two halves, and twenty-four halves, but twenty-nine (recall our previous enchantment!) does not.
Any number with a terminal digit of zero can be split at least in half.
Yes, presumably more, but when the whole business of numbers is literally nauseating to one, one starts where one must. Isn't it so.
The rest is buttons on a machine, which, again, can be memorized as a series of shapes, to spit out the answer with, if not alacrity, then an average amount of speed, while pressing the wool of Normal tight across all the eyes in the room. Which requires additional effort, understand.
Similarly, Newtonian physics are entirely sufficient to explain the world in which most of us live. The science of patterns is pretty, but not sufficiently absorbing to hold my attention when there's delicious history to examine.
I am by nature a cataloger of things, but only of interesting things.
For example: celerestory, lightwell, apse.
Basic, mafic, ultramafic. I'm still not clear on extrusive versus intrusive. The majority of very interesting pretty facets are silicate and acidic in origin. (They are such things as countertops are made on.)
...Don't touch your Google in public!
Unless it's to type in Cueva de los Cristales and DEMAND PICTURES.
