I laughed out loud (no, really) at this one. At the last (Non D&D) game night, our host’s daughter wanted to play a couple rounds of One Night Ultimate Werewolf before the dads settled into Arkham Horror.
I hate lying to my friends and am terrible at it. I drew werewolf three fucking times.
Reminds me a game of Shadows over Camelot where it turned out that my wife was the traitor. She did a good enough acting job to fool everybody, but mentioned afterwards that it made her a bit uncomfortable.
Yeah, I much prefer being Town to Scum, too. When I draw Scum, I accept it and do my best, because I know that the game depends upon that, but apparently my best isn’t very good. One notable game, I managed to last all the way to the Final Three, without having drawn any suspicion all game, and the other two players started the Day with “Vote Chronos, no reason, I just think it’s him”, and refused to budge.
Aside: Did anyone else see the oversized version of this one that was originally posted?
So how do you handle the equivalent of decimals? Try to go down to base… one? And then… base zero? Or do you start the sequence in the other direction?
Negative integer factorials are undefined (the limit is +/- infinity). But for other negatives, they are defined, assuming we define it in terms of the Gamma function.
So, perhaps we should change the definition to operate only on half-integers–i.e., numbers of the form k+1/2, where k is an integer. Then we can support “decimals”. Unfortunately, it means integers now need to be represented as an infinite decimal, since the positive values are no longer integers, but that’s a small price to pay…
Wikipedia has an article. Apparently, this is used in combinatorics (not my field). For fractions, the suggestion is that the nth digit to the right of the “decimal” point is worth 1/n! (where the nth digit to the left is worth n!).
That chart is very difficult to interpret, especially the top banner. What is the meaning of “353011”? What do “Base 7”, “Base 6”, etc refer to? Where’s the factorials?
Yeah, he left a lot out, but this is presumably one slide in a whole PowerPoint presentation (shudder). 353011 is meant to be an example, but the slide doesn’t actually say what it means. The factorials come in when you compute the value:
I can’t remember which translation it was that came with Brittanica’s Great Books collection, but it was terrible. It read like the translator thought that archaic language was the way you were supposed to write, so as to make things sound more elite and inscrutable.
Translators often go unsung, but Emily Wilson became a household name with the success of her Odyssey .
Is there something I missed? I’m sure her translations are perfectly fine, but was there some social media fad or the like that made her a big deal? (I’ve never heard of her)
The Slate article makes it sound like more than that. Wikipedia says this:
Wilson became internationally known for her translation of The Odyssey in 2018, with media attention on her becoming the first woman to publish a translation of the work into English.
So maybe that? Still seems like a weak hook to immediately go to international fame. But maybe a few good media appearances would be enough. Especially in the progressive nerd arena, like NPR.