Bazza Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word 14401 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word 902 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word What's with the numbers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word Fattening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word That's a lot of calories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word As the lecturer said -- as long as energy in equals energy out, you're good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word 14407 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word Hmm, I should of noticed that before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word Hmm. I don't have my copy of a million random digits here. Otherwise I could join in the parade of five-digit numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . That was #14,409. This is #14,410. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word Hmph. Hey, I do have a set of 12-siders here at the office. (12)8523. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . I've never, ever used a D12. Don't seem to be included in the dice collections I've bought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word I have them here at the office because in one class I include a random-number exercise. I have the kids make 50 2d6 rolls, and 50 1d12 rolls (ignoring 1's), then try to lead them to the idea that even though the two have the same average the distributions are very different. Most of these kids not being gamers, this frequently comes as a shock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . What was their high school math like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word Too much variation among them to say. Probability distribution functions usually seem to be left out, though. It is my experience that gamers have a much better grasp of probability in general than non-gamers, even if they have to translate things into dice roll equivalents to do so. For instance, when my wife got pregnant (age 34, "advanced maternal age") and we were considering prenatal screening, I ended up restating one of the risk elements in terms of 3d6 rolls for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . "Roll 17 or 18 for Down"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word No, it was the hospital's track record for significant fetal injury (in 1994) in drawing for chorionic villi sampling. And yes, such injury was more common than rolling an 18, less common than a 17, on 3d6. We didn't go that route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word It's a great aid for the mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I roll far fewer 17's when I know the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Re: The Last Word "Sir, the chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field is 9,760 to one!" "Never tell me the odds!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Re: The Last Word The odds get better when you know your asteroid from a hole in the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Re: The Last Word Certainly. Lucas et al knows as much about astronomy as I do about the topography of them Marianas trench. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Re: The Last Word Well, I've never forgiven them for the parsecs-as-unit-of-time in the very first movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Re: The Last Word It's been ret-conned, but badly so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Re: The Last Word Yeah, the harder they retcon, the lamer it gets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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