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Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:14:58 UTC No. 16136364
Can anyone figure out what this is supposed to mean? For those who haven't read Ender's Shadow: Bean is a young genius in a space battle school. He's tired from constant battle practice in this scene.
The equation is easily solvable with algebra and doesn't have any significance in any field. I genuinely have no clue what Orson was going for here.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:18:39 UTC No. 16136366
>>16136364
Seems like he knew that the teachers all knew what was going on, and if they wanted to pretend that classwork still mattered, fine, let them, but *he* didn't have to play.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:26:48 UTC No. 16136377
>>16136364
It's meant to be meaningless nonsense, that's the point. Though why Card went to the effort to have the equation actually printed I have no idea. If I had to grasp for an answer, instead of writing 2 + 2 = 4 he wrote 2 + 2 = gibberish.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:33:36 UTC No. 16136380
>>16136364
n in this equation is an irrational number so it's "value" can't be known. Of course that is only if you aren't allowed to use pi in your notation. It may also be a smug jab at how gravity calculations also produce approximations and thus he can just round pi to 4 when doing them but pretty sure this is a children book so that's probably not it.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:43:49 UTC No. 16136394
>>16136380
N is easily solved you clown, n = (2+2)/pi^2-2 = -1.5947
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:48:49 UTC No. 16136399
>>16136394
You might want to check your math, but yes, your point still stands.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:49:36 UTC No. 16136400
>>16136394
That's not it's value
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:50:08 UTC No. 16136401
Where is N?
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:59:46 UTC No. 16136408
>>16136400
Value is subjective
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:35:06 UTC No. 16136470
>>16136366
Brilliant observation, Anon. Absolutely outstanding.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:36:24 UTC No. 16136474
>>16136470
Thanks :D
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:36:41 UTC No. 16136476
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:39:43 UTC No. 16136480
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:42:38 UTC No. 16136486
>>16136377
Something like this. I think he was going for 2 + 2 = (some really hard equation the teachers will struggle with) because it's not gibberish. Only problem is any highschooler could solve this kek.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:08:26 UTC No. 16136517
>>16136401
I guess Bean ain't finishing the test lmao
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 04:15:24 UTC No. 16136924
>>16136364
I already told you, OSC is just a mathlet.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:20:40 UTC No. 16137065
>>16136364
n is 16/pi^2-2
now finish the test, midget
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:41:24 UTC No. 16137223
>>16137065
Ok now tell me the value of N.