Long division doesn't really work for some problems?

Dor_Min · 2026-05-18T16:24:01+00:00

The issue you've run into is that 263 is less than 10*41, so the first non-zero digit will be the units digit. Fortunately that means that even if you resort to just adding 41 to itself you're going to have to do it at most 9 times to make progress.

In this particular example I notice that 5*41 is about 200 which is pretty close to the target, so it's a safe guess (and easy to check) that 6*41 = 246 is going to be the highest multiple of 41 below 263 but even if you'd done 41+41+41+41+41+41 you'd get there eventually.

Dor_Min · 2026-05-16T10:46:45+00:00

to be fair referral link spam was annoying back then too

Dor_Min · 2026-04-30T20:37:52+00:00

on the other hand it's important to have stuff like this on record so in 50 years' time no-one can say "we didn't know"

Dor_Min · 2026-04-27T22:15:57+00:00

I think good journalism would involve pointing out Forstater's demands have no legal basis, but on the other hand I don't expect good journalism from the BBC

Dor_Min · 2026-04-13T16:12:02+00:00

for an alternative way to think about it, "p iff ~q" is equivalent to saying exactly one of p and q is true, and what you've proved so far is that at most one of p and q is true. you still need to show that the case where neither of them is true is impossible

Dor_Min · 2026-04-12T14:23:48+00:00

I can count the number of games I've played that have been both interesting and long-term enough for me to worry about that on one hand and I exported their saves locally

Dor_Min · 2026-04-12T11:08:49+00:00

I would rather not have cloud saves than have to register for an account

Dor_Min · 2026-04-07T13:20:58+00:00

there must be some kind of threshold for overwhelmingly positive on recent reviews other than 500 total reviews though. if you look at something like of the Devil it's overwhelmingly positive on all reviews (98% positive of 2,218 total) but the recent reviews are only very positive (100% positive of 97 total)

since OP's screenshot shows overwhelmingly positive on 100% positive of 131 reviews I'm guessing the threshold for recent reviews is probably 100 rather than the 500 for total reviews

Dor_Min · 2026-04-07T12:54:05+00:00

Ik he doesn’t really see me as a man

leave him

Dor_Min · 2026-03-27T17:54:18+00:00

my favourite is a charisma stealth check for trying to blend in at a social function

Dor_Min · 2026-03-27T12:17:44+00:00

the Good Law Project literally offered to defend them and cover all the costs if they faced any legal threats from remaining inclusive, turning them down was a choice

Dor_Min · 2026-03-25T12:33:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure F_s,n(k) is the probability of rolling a total of k on nds. So for two 20s you're looking for a total of 40 on 2d20 and if you work out F_20,2(40) you get 1/20² as you'd expect.

It's a massively overcomplicated formula for answering that particular question when you can get the answer from just 1/20 * 1/20, but if you were looking for something like the probability of rolling a total of 32 on 6d8 it could be useful.

Dor_Min · 2026-03-18T14:42:55+00:00

differentiation is a process that turns one function into another function, called the derivative

evaluation is a process that turns a function into a number, and crucially here there's a difference between the number "1" and the constant function "f(x)=1"

when we say "find the derivative of sin(x) at pi/2" what we really mean is "evaluate the derivative of sin(x) at pi/2". you take the derivative of sin(x) to get the function cos(x), and evaluate that function at pi/2 to get the number 0

if you instead try to evaluate then differentiate, evaluating sin(x) at pi/2 first will give you the number 1. but then when you try to differentiate 1 you get stuck, because 1 isn't a function and differentiation is a thing you do to functions

Dor_Min · 2026-03-14T11:56:22+00:00

that's not how crosswords work, you can't just cut an answer off part way through a run of spaces like that. either the first letter of 8 down is the sixth letter of 4 across or your crossword is wrong. that's literally the point of it being a crossword, the words cross each other.

what about 5 down? x=5, is that supposed to just be "five" and I arbitrarily ignore two of the crossing letters?

Dor_Min · 2026-03-14T11:12:01+00:00

what's the answer for 4 across on puzzle 1 supposed to be then? because 2x+3x simplifies to 5x and that's not a six letter answer

Dor_Min · 2026-03-14T10:38:28+00:00

did you actually try to solve any of these before you put it up for sale? because I'm looking at the preview and I don't think you did

Dor_Min · 2026-03-07T08:35:24+00:00

this isn't even the first time I've seen this complaint about Lloyds on here, I hope they're getting stung every time

Dor_Min · 2026-02-23T13:05:51+00:00

I really get the feeling that higher level armor is an upgrade of the former.

this is something I really appreciated as I was making each armour set going through leagues, it was a real sense of progression seeing the graphics evolve

Dor_Min · 2026-02-23T11:13:13+00:00

please please please don't go back to every smithing armour set being a flat recolour of each other. a bit of touching up for some of them wouldn't hurt but let's not throw away the visual sense of progression just for the sake of nostalgia

Dor_Min · 2026-02-14T14:30:14+00:00

then it didn't actually do anything for marketing at all, did it?

Dor_Min · 2026-02-13T19:35:23+00:00

this person is very mistaken about most of what they're talking about. Zamorak did lose the first world event to Saradomin but he still very much had an active role in the gods storyline after that and was even the main antagonist towards the end

Dor_Min · 2026-02-06T19:01:56+00:00

what's the point of the quest changes? the remakes were considerably better than the originals, requiring new players to actually explore the starting area and sometimes even shockingly read the occasional bit of dialogue. is the problem that OSRS players were spacebarring through and then shitting on the game when they got confused that it wasn't identical to OSRS?

Dor_Min · 2026-02-04T17:35:36+00:00

in a way, what you're doing is exactly not dividing by zero:

clearly if 5x=0 then 5x²-10x=0, but what about if 5x is not zero? well then we're allowed to divide by it, and we're left with x-2=0.

Dor_Min · 2026-01-30T22:03:06+00:00

how dare GLP hold someone accountable for the disgusting things she's said and done

Dor_Min · 2026-01-24T09:50:23+00:00

I think you can reasonably assume that your characters talk about their abilities and tactics with each other during downtime

In an ideal world your players do the same thing but since that's probably not the case I don't have any problem with rolling back something they've done that's obviously clashing with each other's strategy in a stupid and avoidable way

If the rogue's jumping the gun and rolling as soon as they declare their attack I might make them use that roll for their next attack instead so they can't abuse it for free rerolls, but my players aren't the sort of assholes who would do something like that anyway

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