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kybearfuzz) wrote2013-06-20 07:49 am
kybearfuzz) wrote2013-06-20 07:49 am
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Prom Night, Numbers with 4's, and Throwback Thursday
Last night, after finishing my 3.4 mile run, I showered and crashed. My neighbor was mowing his yard late, which means I'll tackle it tonight. After watching "Terror Train" the night before, I felt like wanting more Jamie Lee Curtis and watched "Prom Night" on DVD. It's so late-1970's, I adore it. While the murders are horrible (and done in such darkness it's hard to see any blood), I admit that the dancing is the real horror in the movie. Disco. Heh...
While watching the movie, I had planned to do some writing or some drawing, but instead got drawn into something my boss told me her son was doing. He's in a summer program and his project was to calculate numbers 1 through 60, using four-fours in any mathematical combination. For example, (4/4)x(4/4)=1, (4/4)+(4/4)=2, etc. I just started it as a gag myself and found myself compelled to keep going until I had done all 60. It can get pretty intricate after a while -- using exponents, factorials, square roots -- to get the desired number. The odd numbers were the roughest, such as 51 = (4!) x sq rt (4) + 4 - 4^0. I did it in about 20 minutes, but wow, I'm such a geek.
As I was getting ready for bed, I looked for a photo for Throwback Thursday posting. Naturally, I got wrapped up in looking at old pics and found photos I'd forgotten about. I'm still hunting for one particular picture I know is in the house somewhere, but found this one from the summer of 1975.
Me, my sister, and the twin sitting on my Batman cycle with our older cousin Stephanie. I'm two years old and was obviously destined to love superheroes.
While watching the movie, I had planned to do some writing or some drawing, but instead got drawn into something my boss told me her son was doing. He's in a summer program and his project was to calculate numbers 1 through 60, using four-fours in any mathematical combination. For example, (4/4)x(4/4)=1, (4/4)+(4/4)=2, etc. I just started it as a gag myself and found myself compelled to keep going until I had done all 60. It can get pretty intricate after a while -- using exponents, factorials, square roots -- to get the desired number. The odd numbers were the roughest, such as 51 = (4!) x sq rt (4) + 4 - 4^0. I did it in about 20 minutes, but wow, I'm such a geek.
As I was getting ready for bed, I looked for a photo for Throwback Thursday posting. Naturally, I got wrapped up in looking at old pics and found photos I'd forgotten about. I'm still hunting for one particular picture I know is in the house somewhere, but found this one from the summer of 1975.
Me, my sister, and the twin sitting on my Batman cycle with our older cousin Stephanie. I'm two years old and was obviously destined to love superheroes.
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Cute photo - I would have been two-and-a-half around that time.
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I'm purposely not looking to close at your math game. the little I saw already got my head trying to do it and I just don't have the time LOL
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And the math game is hard. Apparently exponents are not allowed unless they are a "4". For example, 4^0 is not allowed but 4^4 is... and it uses up two of your allotted fours in the process. So I'm already redoing it. It's maddeningly addictive.
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And in case you're not kidding, "4!" is four factorial = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1.