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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 day, 15 hours ago
    Uh~~~before me dino could finish reading that meme with the upside-down airplane~~I was already thinking about a dead cockroach.
    But, yeah, I've had pets that would trustingly show me their upturned bellies.
    Don't want another pet. They can big time let you down by dying.
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    • Posted by $ Suzanne43 23 hours, 35 minutes ago
      Dino, I know what you mean by not wanting another pet. It hurts so much when they die. We had our cat for fifteen years before she died. She was a member of the family. But we enjoyed her for all the time that she was with us. I had a dog as a kid. I think of him often.
      Hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 day, 3 hours ago
    Yep, gave Flintstones to the kids! I've successfully completed the "balance the ice tray" maneuver a bazillion times, but a few times the floor (or my socks) got rinsed. Love the Sponge Bob analogy, LOL!

    Thanks for another great start to my day.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 22 hours, 53 minutes ago
      For those flummoxxed by higher mathematics, it's important to remember that a bazillion (along with its friend the squillion) is an imaginary number. Sort of like π, a round number. Don't tell me π are square! But as we all once learned, e to the iπ minus one equals zero, unless the oiler is broken.
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      • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 22 hours, 44 minutes ago
        Very funny, that pun on Euler! Seriously.

        I thought it was e to the (minus ipi). Equal one.
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        • Posted by $ Snezzy 22 hours, 25 minutes ago
          Oops. I got singed by the sign (not the sine). It's actually e to the iπ PLUS one equals zero,
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          • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 18 hours, 26 minutes ago
            I'm working on it. I always have difficulty remembering how Euler thought of it. Geometry is my math forte, and I believe there is a geometrical relationship here, if you consider that i, the imaginary number, is used as a mathematical expression for a change in direction. And I think there is a relationship between the exponential function and the form (in Pythagorean terms) of the circumference of the circle.

            I was thinking this morning, if e to the pi is calculated, it would be about e to the 30 something, and call that k, then you could say that given circle A, with circumference CsubA and diameter DsubA, then e to the pi would equal k and e to CsubA would equal k*e to the DsubA. It needs work, but it will give me a platform to the more directional equation of e to the minus pi(i). Well, anyway...

            I see it geometrically as a relationship between growth in circumference, diameter, and the exponentiation of it. Something like that. Still only a mote in my eye.
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            • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 18 hours, 18 minutes ago
              I think this is wrong.

              The correct equation of e to the pi, is e to the CsubA over DsubA, so that e to the 1 over DsubA raised to the CsubA equals k. I think this is right: take e to the inverse of the diameter and raise it to the length of the circumference, and that would equal 23.14092 (not 30 something).

              Now you've got me interested. But I've got to help America through her current 'reality intervention' so it may be awhile.
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