MP: Standards - MA Game (running)

[AreaOfEffect]

Discrete mathematics covers a range of subjects like number and set theory, logic, and algorithmics. It is generally only required by math majors and computer science majors. These days the course tends to be geared toward CS majors, meanwhile some math majors are allowed to skip the subject completely as it isn't a "serious" math course by their standards.

I can't tell you the number of times I went to discuss discrete math to a math major and got instead a funny expression from their face.

P.S.: This post has the third most views out of all other threads on the Shrapnel Games forums. Don't ask me why. I have no clue.

[JimMorrison]

Soon, Standards will have more views than the KingMaker thread, which has 900 posts. o.O

[46852]

I'm not sure how the "views" mechanic works, but seems it doesn't add the count up if I open the thread as unregistered user or registered from different IPs... So there seems to be over 1000 spectators in our game :P

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by 46852

I'm not sure how the "views" mechanic works, but seems it doesn't add the count up if I open the thread as unregistered user or registered from different IPs... So there seems to be over 1000 spectators in our game :P

You know, I did a test of "View spam" on another thread, and I couldn't seem to get it to visibly register me as a "View". Presumably, I had already opened the page once before that..... Maybe it will only count any particular user once, until someone else posts in it? That just seems entirely cumbersome to the server.....

To contrast that, I saw another thread gain 11 Views from one refresh of the page to another, and it didn't even look like a very popular thread..... I think we've got Gremlins.

[46852]

Question again! I suppose if the score graphs are disabled, you can't view the score tables on Llama page either?

PS. If the guys with the awake gods continue to conquer provinces at this rate, I'm gonna get rolled over soon! Does VotD work on pretenders?

[konming]

Don't worry, awake pretender still only counts as one expansion army. Many people will be able to field second expansion team by turn 4. Looks like 4 people took awake pretender. There are two big monsters and one most likely a 1-2-2-4-4-2-2-1 rainbow, the last one is kind of hard to read. As Van, you can either take good bless and expand like crazy with vans, or you can take good scale, good magic and expand easily with skin shifters.

[Jazzepi]

Originally Posted by konming

Don't worry, awake pretender still only counts as one expansion army. Many people will be able to field second expansion team by turn 4. Looks like 4 people took awake pretender. There are two big monsters and one most likely a 1-2-2-4-4-2-2-1 rainbow, the last one is kind of hard to read. As Van, you can either take good bless and expand like crazy with vans, or you can take good scale, good magic and expand easily with skin shifters.

And this is why graphs on, are stupid.

Jazzepi

[konming]

Graph off just benefits the strongest player, and leads to runaway victory every time. We do not need R'lyeh to mass 80 provinces by turn 24 without people knowing it.

However, the details shown on the table can reveal a lot of information that graph alone can not.

[anticipatient]

Haha. LOL @ discrete math . . .

Okay well first, in understanding what discrete math means, let's discern "discrete" from "discreet;" the former means separable, finite parts, while the latter means careful, cautious, guarded, hidden, particularly in terms of speech.

Apples are discrete until you turn them into applesauce. Water is not discrete until you turn it into ice cubes.

So discrete mathematics deals with finite, identifiable numbers and sets. In other words, it's not calculus. This group of math theories requires non-infinity, which is to say that there must be a finite amount of numbers between 0 and 1.

[46852]

Originally Posted by anticipatient

Haha. LOL @ discrete math . . .

Okay well first, in understanding what discrete math means, let's discern "discrete" from "discreet;" the former means separable, finite parts, while the latter means careful, cautious, guarded, hidden, particularly in terms of speech.

Discreet maths means you don't speak about maths at all