Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "54", "posts": [ { "id": "1105670", "time": "1613086167", "html": "Wow this site got active", "user": "fattythefatguy" }, { "id": "1105672", "time": "1613086201", "html": "Yup. It's been pretty busy today specifically.", "user": "ebag" }, { "id": "1105674", "time": "1613086273", "html": "I wonder what happened", "user": "fattythefatguy" }, { "id": "1105681", "time": "1613086860", "html": "Oh, well, nothing much. There was a wedding, Our eyesight has collectively gotten worse. <br /><br />That's about all that's really noteworthy, I think.", "user": "ebag" }, { "id": "1105683", "time": "1613087278", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/ebag\">e-bag</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">That's about all that's really noteworthy, I think.</div></div><br /><br />Subject 9-12 escaped from containment and very briefly endangered the corporeal plane after Blake misplaced a semicolon, but we managed to fix it. In the process of doing so, Greyseff had his timestream reversed <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">yet again</span> so his post count slipped further back into the negatives.", "user": "kylijoy" }, { "id": "1105713", "time": "1613091210", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/poikichoi\">PoikiChoi</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">It\u2019s very blurry<br /><br />I hope your mom will be okay</div></div><br />Thank you :) <br /><br />That's weird that mine is blurry, on my screen everyone else's is blurred except for a select few...", "user": "incognitogirl" }, { "id": "1105716", "time": "1613091295", "html": "Yeah, weird. Maybe because you're PFP is brand new, it's not blurry?", "user": "ebag" }, { "id": "1105722", "time": "1613091561", "html": "That's true. How long have you had yours? I've been trying to guess what yours is for the longest time; it's always blurry.", "user": "incognitogirl" }, { "id": "1105725", "time": "1613091752", "html": "Blake,<br /><br />SPEAK.<br /><br />Wtf is happening to our profile pictures?", "user": "poodonkus913" }, { "id": "1105727", "time": "1613091987", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/incognitogirl\">incognito girl</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">That's true. How long have you had yours? I've been trying to guess what yours is for the longest time; it's always blurry.</div></div><br />I mean, somebody gave me this PFP a while ago, and I'm not even exactly sure when I got it.", "user": "ebag" }, { "id": "1105735", "time": "1613092795", "html": "Fair enough. <br /><br />Also Poodonkus913's pfp isn't blurred for me, that much I will say.", "user": "incognitogirl" }, { "id": "1105795", "time": "1613109464", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/kylijoy\">KylIjoy</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Greyseff had his timestream reversed <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">yet again</span> so his post count slipped further back into the negatives.</div></div>The Curious Case of Benjamin Grayseff.", "user": "waterphoenix" }, { "id": "1105797", "time": "1613110091", "html": "Chick Corea died a few days ago, and it was announced this afternoon. He was such a massive influence on an entire generation of jazz musicians. He was 79.", "user": "scoggles" }, { "id": "1105798", "time": "1613113491", "html": "Well, shit. That sucks. Time to go sit alone with the lights off and emotionally stare out a window while listening repeatedly to a bunch of different versions of Spain.", "user": "justabitjaded" }, { "id": "1105813", "time": "1613138920", "html": "Help. I just had a realization during my math test<br /><br /><br />\u221a(x³) = x * \u221a(x)<br /><br /><br />For example the square root of 8 is 2\u221a2", "user": "dementedkermit" }, { "id": "1105927", "time": "1613144869", "html": "Yes, I believe that would be correct for any square root of a cube.", "user": "incognitogirl" }, { "id": "1105943", "time": "1613147189", "html": "Yep. It's because sqrt(x) = x^1/2, so x*sqrt(x)=x¹x^1/2=x^3/2=sqrt(x³)", "user": "aprzn123" }, { "id": "1105945", "time": "1613147235", "html": "i dont understand a single thing u just said", "user": "dementedkermit" }, { "id": "1105947", "time": "1613147290", "html": "Math\u2122", "user": "aprzn123" }, { "id": "1106017", "time": "1613150028", "html": "You can treat roots as taking something to a fractional power. The other rules of power multiplication still apply.<br />So x⁵ = x² * x³<br />Because x⁵ is just x*x*x*x*x. So it doesn't matter how you group them. (x*x)*(x*x*x).<br /><br />Roots of things are just fractions of taking things to a power. So \u221ax is just x^1/2. Same thing for cube roots and whatever you call those four roots and five roots. So \u221a(x³) = x^{3^1/2} = x^3*(1/2) = x^3/2.<br /><br />From there, x^3/2 = x^1/2 * x^2/2 = (\u221ax) * x", "user": "coldfrost" }, { "id": "1106018", "time": "1613150029", "html": "That's cube thing is just a fancier way of writing xxx = xxx", "user": "waterphoenix" }, { "id": "1106024", "time": "1613150484", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/coldfrost\">Coldfrost</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">You can treat roots as taking something to a fractional power. The other rules of power multiplication still apply.<br />So x⁵ = x² * x³<br />Because x⁵ is just x*x*x*x*x. So it doesn't matter how you group them. (x*x)*(x*x*x).<br /><br />Roots of things are just fractions of taking things to a power. So \u221ax is just x^1/2. Same thing for cube roots and whatever you call those four roots and five roots. So \u221a(x³) = x^{3^1/2} = x^3*(1/2) = x^3/2.<br /><br />From there, x^3/2 = x^1/2 * x^2/2 = (\u221ax) * x</div></div><br />When Coldfrost is better at teaching math than my college algebra teacher", "user": "incognitogirl" }, { "id": "1106088", "time": "1613152409", "html": "That actually made my jaw drop", "user": "fattythefatguy" }, { "id": "1106158", "time": "1613160890", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/scoggles\">Scoggles</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Chick Corea died a few days ago, and it was announced this afternoon. He was such a massive influence on an entire generation of jazz musicians. He was 79.</div></div><br /><br />Oh shit, that's sad to hear. I loved his stuff. Spain is one of my favorite jazz songs to this day.", "user": "eriophora" }, { "id": "1106369", "time": "1613202542", "html": "I've gotten the urge to get into vinyl recently. Think I just need to keep telling myself I don't have space for all that crap and move on though.", "user": "ecr674" } ], "users": { "fattythefatguy": { "name": "Fatty the fat guy", "key": "fattythefatguy", "url": "/users/fattythefatguy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/18106.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1958" }, "ebag": { "name": "e-bag", "key": "ebag", "url": "/users/ebag", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20744.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4201" }, "kylijoy": { "name": "KylIjoy", "key": "kylijoy", "url": "/users/kylijoy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/19626.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "72" }, "incognitogirl": { "name": "incognito girl", "key": "incognitogirl", "url": "/users/incognitogirl", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20464.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "393" }, "poodonkus913": { "name": "Poodonkus913", "key": "poodonkus913", "url": "/users/poodonkus913", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20317.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1685" }, "waterphoenix": { "name": "Water Phoenix", "key": "waterphoenix", "url": "/users/waterphoenix", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/17290.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "8920" }, "scoggles": { "name": "Scoggles", "key": "scoggles", "url": "/users/scoggles", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/1301.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "3636" }, "justabitjaded": { "name": "justabitjaded", "key": "justabitjaded", "url": "/users/justabitjaded", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20021.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "3478" }, "dementedkermit": { "name": "dementedkermit", "key": "dementedkermit", "url": "/users/dementedkermit", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20475.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "3236" }, "aprzn123": { "name": "aprzn123", "key": "aprzn123", "url": "/users/aprzn123", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20919.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4829" }, "coldfrost": { "name": "Coldfrost", "key": "coldfrost", "url": "/users/coldfrost", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/20861.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "7587" }, "eriophora": { "name": "eriophora", "key": "eriophora", "url": "/users/eriophora", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/16448.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "204" }, "ecr674": { "name": "ecr674", "key": "ecr674", "url": "/users/ecr674", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/16118.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2492" } }, "page_num": 2858, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 2860 }

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