Socks and a secret lab

[Niniel]

Me and my daughter had a discussion about teddybears being up during the nights, doing whatever they do, when we are sleeping. We were talking about what they do and what they eat and then we got to this:

 

F: Aha! That´s what happens to the other sock! They eat them!

T: I thought it was the secret washing machine conspiracy that eats them.

F: No. Don´t you remember that the washing machine is the entrance to your secret lab?

T: Right... I had forgotten. 

 

 

A perfectly normal family. *nods*

 

 

 

[csarmi]

i think its the washing machines

[Niniel]

No, no, no. It´s the teddybears. *nods*

 

 

Btw. We have now a new teddy friend that I won on a tivoli last week. He looks like a red devil/lion thing with horns. I named him Ba´alzamon. 

[Aiel Heart]

The teddy bears pull the wrong lever on the way to the secret lab

 

 

The alligators now have many socks

[Niniel]

That´s only fair. I guess they need four at a time and I think that their claws might break them all the time. It would be expensive to buy new socks every week. 

[Leyrann]

Well, we can get pretty weird too. Something like five years ago, this happened:

 

Me: Thats like, a billion (1 000 000 000) seconds!.

My brother: Do you know how long a billion seconds is?

Me (instantly): 30 years.

He: Exactly.

 

That moment when you both know by heart how long a billion seconds is and don't think it's weird either.

[Aiel Heart]

There was actually one time for one of my classes that we had to calculate how much a billion seconds was and then name a few things that were going on in the world a billion seconds ago.

 

And this happened back in the 90s so we were looking at stuff from the 60s and we were all amazed!

[Panchi]

Well, we can get pretty weird too. Something like five years ago, this happened:

 

Me: Thats like, a billion (1 000 000 000) seconds!.

My brother: Do you know how long a billion seconds is?

Me (instantly): 30 years.

He: Exactly.

 

That moment when you both know by heart how long a billion seconds is and don't think it's weird either.

I think that's pretty cool, knowing how billion seconds is

[Leyrann]

I also once played a game with a friend of his, naming powers of two in turn without having to calculate them. We got to ~2^20.

[Leyrann]

For reference, that's 1 048 576.

[Niniel]

Math... sock eating teddybears are so much better. 

[Leyrann]

I don't know. Does that mean the teddybears taste like sock when I try to eat them afterwards?

[Leyrann]

Dragonmount stop bugging out with the colouring if I use italics.

[Niniel]

Why would you want to eat a teddybear when there are so much chocolate in the world? 

 

 

Well... are there chocolate teddybears? If so, I´m sure they smell and taste chocolate. And perhaps mint. Or banana. 

[Panchi]

I also once played a game with a friend of his, naming powers of two in turn without having to calculate them. We got to ~2^20.

Wow!

 

I can barely get to 32, it might be stretched to 1024 with some very quick calculations in head...maybe to two or three more numbers but no where near that

[Panchi]

Math... sock eating teddybears are so much better.

I thought math was better. It doesn't get dirty.

 

Now, if I just understood how math got to being the subject to study most for from the subject to study least for, in a few months I might maths.

 

Now, I have to find my teddy, Banana

[Leyrann]

 

I also once played a game with a friend of his, naming powers of two in turn without having to calculate them. We got to ~2^20.

Wow!

 

I can barely get to 32, it might be stretched to 1024 with some very quick calculations in head...maybe to two or three more numbers but no where near that

 

 

1

2

4

8

16

32

64

128

256

512

1 024

2 048

4 096

8 192

16 384

32 768 (that one actually tends to give me trouble, but it wasn't my turn with that game so it went by unnoticed. 2^15 btw, I do know that by heart)

65 536

131 072

262 144

524 288

1 048 576

 

That's basically how far I can do it by heart.

[Leyrann]

Oopsie, accidentally coloured your quote too. That happens when you forget you're quoting and then use Ctrl+A for the colour.

[Panchi]

That's awesome.

 

 

Btw, do you know what digit does not come in 2^29? A teacher asked that once and we could only get the answer by calculating :P and not by any easier way

[Leyrann]

Am I allowed to use a calculator?

 

Oh why even bother.

 

1 024 * 1 024 = 1 048 576

 

1 048 576

0 000 512

-------------X

002 097 152

010 485 760

524 288 000

----------------+

536 870 912

 

It's a 4.

 

(by the way, second and third of the multiplier were just filling it in: 2^20 and 2^19 with zeroes behind it, while if I had known 2^21 by heart that'd have been simple filling in too).

[Leyrann]

(calculated it this way because 2^29 = 2^10*2^10*2^9)

[Panchi]

You are not allowed to calculate it. The solution should be something that you get by applying something instead of calculating.

[Leyrann]

Then I have no idea how to do it...

[Panchi]

Welcome to the club that thinks it is easier to calculate

 

Disclaimer: There may or may not exist such club

[Leyrann]

I mean, I could easily think of what the LAST number is, but that only means I know that there is a 2, 4, 6 or 8 in the number.