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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
I think I've had enough now. I'll just spectate

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No, no, no. Now's the time to take your little wad of cash and start organizing behind-the-scenes cabals to identify someone who really wants a particular number and drive up the last day or two of bidding.

All in Christian Love™ , of course, for the benefit of the Organ Fund and the glory of the Ship.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Well, that's pretty imperssive, to me at least.

(regarding no.66)Geo, you must be a lot older than you look. I was born two years after you graduated!

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Originally posted by Papio.:
yeah, but 4+2+0+1 is 7.

And seven is a Biblically Significant number.

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$2^8. Now tell me that ain't cosmic.

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Originally posted by Auctioneer:
Pânts has wondered about what her dollar bids come out to in pounds, and perhaps other non-US bidders would like to make reference to a handy-dandy currency conversion website.

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
On the web, I found nothing interesting on 3216!

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
On the web, I found nothing interesting on 3216!

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Originally posted by Kepler's Puppet:
So does anyone have a nice curve fitting program (as in, better than Excel) so that we can track the total money raised? Some of us find that sort of thing highly amusing It looks logarithmic just now.

(I probably need to get out more)

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I've got GraphPad Prism. Might have a bash at it this afternoon... seeing as it's pouring hard

Hen
(sitting firmly on hands to prevent wayward bidding which cannot afford)

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Originally posted by The Coot:
What do ya mean Gorty? There is still a long time to go. Have I missed an announcement?!...

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Umm..youknow...like..err..those who have withdrawn 'cause bidding went too high?

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Originally posted by IngoB:
<smart ass>

Very galactic indeed! . But it would have been cosmic if she had written the same bid as:

$2^2^2^2



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Not the same thing at all. You've got one too many exponents there. (A bid of $65,536 would make the auction a success, though, wouldn't it?)

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Originally posted by Hennah:

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Originally posted by Kepler's Puppet:
So does anyone have a nice curve fitting program (as in, better than Excel)? It looks logarithmic just now.

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I've got GraphPad Prism. Might have a bash at it this afternoon...

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Originally posted by Pânts:

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Originally posted by Auctioneer:
Pânts has wondered about what her dollar bids come out to in pounds, and perhaps other non-US bidders would like to make reference to a handy-dandy currency conversion website.

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Bad move. Now I know how much I'm bidding! It was just a fairly random number before!

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Isn't it a good idea to know how much you are bidding, so that you don't get a much higher bill then you were expecting?

Hence the fact that I tend to type "currency converter" into Google before bidding or buying in foriegn money.

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Originally posted by Papio.:

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Originally posted by Pânts:

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Originally posted by Auctioneer:
Pânts has wondered about what her dollar bids come out to in pounds, and perhaps other non-US bidders would like to make reference to a handy-dandy currency conversion website.

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Bad move. Now I know how much I'm bidding! It was just a fairly random number before!

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Isn't it a good idea to know how much you are bidding, so that you don't get a much higher bill then you were expecting?

Hence the fact that I tend to type "currency converter" into Google before bidding or buying in foriegn money.

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Originally posted by basso:

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Originally posted by IngoB:

$2^2^2^2

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Not the same thing at all. You've got one too many exponents there. (A bid of $65,536 would make the auction a success, though, wouldn't it?)

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Originally posted by The Coot:
Nar. What he's written works. For operators all of the same precedence it's a straight left to right application in turn:
((2^2)^2)^2
as opposed to:
2^(2^(2^2))

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Originally posted by basso:
Multiple exponents are evaluated right-to-left.

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The exponentiation operator is non-associative. If you wish to do more than one exponentiation in an expression, you must use parentheses to tell Maple whether you want

> (2^3)^4;

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> 2^(3^4);

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Originally posted by Zappa:
What is a circumflex thingy interpersing a whole lot of numbers? [...]

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      program coot
      print*,2**2**2**2
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I tested that with both g77 and Intel Fortran. C is of course too stupid a language to support the problem...

I'm not sure why "proper print" would solve the issue, other than by relying on a vague sense of "natural reading order" (i.e., top to bottom precedes left to right).

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Originally posted by jlg:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
What is a circumflex thingy interpersing a whole lot of numbers? [...]

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It's a way of writing 'powers' when you don't have access to superscripts.

2^2 => 2 to the second power => Two-squared => 2 times 2 = 4.

2^3 is Two cubed => 2 times 2 time 2 = 8

etc.

Does that sound familiar?

2^2^2^2 I suspect is territory you don't want to enter.

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Originally posted by The Coot:
Blah blah blah

256



blah blah blah

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Originally posted by Zappa:

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Originally posted by jlg:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
What is a circumflex thingy interpersing a whole lot of numbers? [...]

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It's a way of writing 'powers' when you don't have access to superscripts.

2^2 => 2 to the second power => Two-squared => 2 times 2 = 4.

2^3 is Two cubed => 2 times 2 time 2 = 8

etc.

Does that sound familiar?

2^2^2^2 I suspect is territory you don't want to enter.

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Phew. I'm less dumb that I thought I was. Perhaps.

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I understand that as well.

Now, of course, someone is going to come along and point out that it is at GCSE level or something.

Let's face it, I have never even taken A-level maths so it can't be that hard if I understand.

Papio (who feels extremely cheated by getting a B in GCSE maths when he got an A or A+ for EVERY bit of maths homework)

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Originally posted by jlg:

2^2^2^2 I suspect is territory you don't want to enter.

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Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
<snip>

And 9 + 4 + 4 = 17, 1 + 7 = 8: the 8th Day: Eternal Sabbath!

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
What I want to know is why more of the 9000# people aren't jumping on this rare opportunity to tell the low-# where to stuff it?

Come on, newbs, get in there!

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Originally posted by jlg:
Oh dear, snowgoose, you're going to get them all scared again!

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e**x dy/dx,
e**x dx,
tan sec cos sin,
Come on Miners, hold that line.

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