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Topic: When you are not ARG'ing or playing Halo 2...
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thebruce
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ok, last one, then if it still goes on, I'll take it to private PM... don't want this to unnecessarily escalate...
Phaedra, I love you  the post is (holy cow!) long, and it'll be the last long one...
 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:30 pm
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Topic: [PUZZLE?] E Numbers
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thebruce
Replies: 224
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| Chris K wrote: |
| Therefore you can't write SQRT( 2 ) as a fraction, because if you could, you would be able to simplify it infinately. |
I was using a fraction as an example of a mathematical...
 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:22 pm
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Topic: [Halo 2] ILB players get together on LIVE
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thebruce
Replies: 4915
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so long was everyone playing for? I went for a break and never came back  sorry. On my break my ride came and that was my night... back at 2:30am, I had to sleep so I could work today. I know, wo...
 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:05 pm
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Topic: [Halo 2] "Conversations from the Universe": Cassan
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thebruce
Replies: 15
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well hopefully Halo 2.5 will finish off the story and tell us who some of these unknown characters are...
[/obvious post]
 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:02 pm
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Topic: When you are not ARG'ing or playing Halo 2...
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thebruce
Replies: 105
Views: 11965
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hmm... I could do a point by point reply, but I won't  I've tortured enough people with enormously long posts on controversial topics, and I don't want to raise another red flag in this thread... s...
 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:58 am
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Topic: [PUZZLE?] E Numbers
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thebruce
Replies: 224
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[quote="SilentAvenger"]Nobody went and checked that for every value, 1 = sin(X)^2 + cos(X)^2, but it has been proven to be true. Furthermore, nobody went and checked that there are an infinite number ...
 Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:05 am
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Topic: [PUZZLE?] E Numbers
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thebruce
Replies: 224
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edit: sorry, this is long... I just rambled on and on... I promise I won't keep going on about this, I don't want this to turn into a heated debate, which tends to happen when discussionary threads li...
 Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:41 am
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Topic: The plot thickens: A new email
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thebruce
Replies: 27
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| seanlpuzzle wrote: |
| Just posted this over at IU. As per Zeke's instructions, I'm going to start using that as the main board... but during this transition I will try to post at both. |
Just...
 Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:49 pm
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Topic: [PUZZLE?] E Numbers
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thebruce
Replies: 224
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[quote="neon snake"]  bugger.
Let me rephrase something I said earlier...
'The chances of any finite number (including E numbers for food) appearing in the infinite string 'e' is pretty hi...
 Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:43 pm
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Topic: [Halo 2] ILB players get together on LIVE
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thebruce
Replies: 4915
Views: 400654
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noooooooooo! I missed her again! argh! This has got to be the worst Christmas evur!
j/k... maybe I should just ask her when she'll be on again  maybe that would help.
I won't be on ver...
 Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:31 am
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Topic: [HUMOUR] You know... I really do love Haiku...
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thebruce
Replies: 235
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[quote="hmrpita"]I only know of one word that is 29 letters long. It is considered the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary. That word (floccinaucinihilipilification, which ...
 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:05 pm
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Topic: [Halo 2] ILB players get together on LIVE
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thebruce
Replies: 4915
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| angelo wrote: |
| The first is most definitely true, but we were playing a game type (bumper cars) in which there are no grenades.... |
eeeennhh! there are grenades... I blew...
 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:55 pm
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Topic: [PUZZLE?] E Numbers
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thebruce
Replies: 224
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| LordKinbote wrote: |
As we know, a fraction multiplied an infinite number of times is going to go to 0.
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but it's not 0, it approaches 0... 1/10^N where N=inf, is not 0, it...
 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:39 pm
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Topic: The plot thickens: A new email
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thebruce
Replies: 27
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ya I think the fact we all seemed to have received this email is a good hint that it might be IG... strange connection though... and ya, I considered it spam too... it's been resurrected and is now si...
 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:26 pm
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Topic: [CHAT] Encryption Team Meeting 12/22
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thebruce
Replies: 5
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cool, yeah sorry I couldn't be there... my vote wouldn't be as informed anyway, since I don't really know anyone  but I'm happy with the results... I'm assuming then that we have people who will b...
 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:00 pm
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