Protect the flock! From JP and Hachette!

What are you doing right now?

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on December 9, 2011 at 2:01am

The backstory is a bit odd, but I found it to make some degree of sense.

The backstory was that unemployment is crazily high in Japan, and because of how many people are already in Japan, the students lost faith in the value of the educational system, in that even if they were perfect students, their odds at a worthwhile job were still grim. So the result of this is that most students not only stop taking school seriously, but are actively resisting laws demanding attendance, stabbing teachers in the hallway and the like.
Fearing complete future anarchy, the government put out an ultimatum to the students; stop, or we'll pick classes at random and force you all to kill each other. Students, being students, have no awareness of long-term consequences and refuse to stop, so therefore, Battle Royale.

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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on December 9, 2011 at 11:11am

Hoping this will cause some discussion:
http://www.max-dan-wiz.com/forum/topics/maya-is-better-than-max

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Permalink Reply by odyssey2341 on December 10, 2011 at 11:40am

Who's Maya?

...Actually, fuck it. I don't really care.

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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on December 9, 2011 at 2:26pm

I fucking hate age restrictions on concerts. RAWR.

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Permalink Reply by Xuut on December 9, 2011 at 3:46pm

I don't understand how I can do so badly at Trig I and do so well in Trig II but okay, whatever. I'll just redo Trig I and ace that test.

In other news, starting to really feel the pressure of choosing a Uni and what to major in now. :|

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Permalink Reply by Fake Fang on December 10, 2011 at 1:58am

I don't get something about prime numbers.

Theoretically, if you took the largest number we're testing for primes out there, then squared it, then squared it again, and then took another number with the same huge number of digits, then searched for what numbers go into said number, dividing it each time whenever you find a prime number that can divide it...wouldn't you eventually come up with only prime numbers?

And what are the odds of said prime numbers all being small ones that we already know of?

I mean, obviously this trick won't work, or else I wouldn't have thought of it, but it bothers me that I can't figure out the solution to why it'd be impractical/isn't already being done.

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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on December 10, 2011 at 3:13am

If you divide any number up enough times, you will only get small prime numbers in the end, unless you're working with a really big one.

Though, we already have a system for locating prime numbers, though we only need so many:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes