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(...) Certainly! Just not a very good one...although it's somewhere betwee 3 & 8, so it's in the ball park... ROSCO (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Just don't go to a quintuple factorial: "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of a diseased mind" -Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man) Cheers Richie (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) While that may be true, you're not claiming that an approximation of pi is 3.141592654!! are you? Cheers Richie (who's happy to use 3.1 or 25/8 as an approximation.) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I guess I shoulda looked harder: (URL) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Bzzzt. The factorial (and double factorial, !!) can be extended to real & complex arguments, as discussed here: (URL)See your nit(1) and raise you one. (2) (...) I'll be seeing that hand, please!!! [1] ROSCO [1] No, I don't know of a triple (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Whoops! c /pi to 10 digits/the first 10 digits of pi/ (...) "Correct", since the next digit after 2653 is >4 so the 53 rounds up to 54... But ACTUALLY INcorrect since " 3.141592654!! " is actually an invalid arithmetic expression. You cannot (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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G'day all! I want to give my son next year a Lego Birthday party for his 4th Birthday. (Not this year as it will be at McDonalds). I'm getting this prepared now as I want to make it really special for him (and me mwahaha). Anyway, while you lovely (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.fun.party, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You didn't want me to just *give* you the answer, did you? Actually, based on your original response to the grammar rodeo, I couldn't really tell if you were playing along with the sillines, or you were in fact unsure what I was talking about. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) it is worth a look. Try these URLs of the same thing instead: (URL) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well ya, but that's an obsCure reference. You told me to look for obsure references. Didn't find any. :-) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Some of the older stuff is, yes. A sub-culture of scripophily I believe. But as for the current stuff, well we Canadians collect it only long enough to spend it on something. :) Canadian Tire money is a wonderful part of our country's culture (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I actually HAVE some of this, believe it or not. But it would cost you more than par to get it, since it's collectible. (...) I went and looked but didn't find ANY Obsure references, Simpsons or otherwise... (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey Jude! As you *must* know, (since as all Canadians are born knowing...) Toronto is the *center* of Canada, therefore it's the center of the known universe, and therefore everything that happens *in* Toronto is all quality. Just because the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Don't forget the old phrase, it's quality not quantity ;-) Jude Moved thread to .o-t.fun cause I don't wanna give you credit for this <g> (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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While going over my voter election guide for today's California primary election I came across the personal statement of Pat Wright, the LP candidate for Lt. Governor: "My message to the people of California is, 'Don't take your freedoms for (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Netspeak terms? (was: Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe)
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(...) From someone's sig on another site: "on the internet, everyone knows you're a balding pervert"(1) (...) 1 - which of course is a takeoff on "on the internet, no one knows you're a ..." (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Lerv" was first used onscreen (I believe) in Annie Hall, though it may have been spelled lurv. Dave! (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What dialect? It's not one I have heard, but I don't know them all. (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Very much Murkan! "Ah lerv yew" roughly translates as "Oi luvs ya" in Strine. Or even "Gimme anuva tinnie, darl". ROSCO (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think you have a superfluous comma there. :-) And a missing period, if the truth be told. :-) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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