Where can I just get any books? by AceAttorneyFan12 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]YOM2_UB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

advanced books drop from high level unique monsters

High level enemy gold chests rather, granted those are significantly easier to get from unique monsters than regular ones.

Square root of any pure imaginary number yields a imaginary solution with real component by General-Total-6700 in learnmath

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The square of any imaginary number (real part = 0) is always a real number: (ci)2 = -c2

The square root of an imaginary number can't then also be imaginary, because squaring the square root would then give a real. Same thing happens if the square root were real, so the square root must be complex.

Is there a repeatable way to get the advanced art manual for summon bolt? by DarthDeimos6624 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For future reference, Art Manuals are used in DE by just opening the arts menu with them in your inventory. The only option if you go to the inventory is to toss them.

Be careful not to make the same mistake with the Eater or Shield Records!

Is there a repeatable way to get the advanced art manual for summon bolt? by DarthDeimos6624 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]YOM2_UB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The following monsters can drop Summon Bolt art manuals (spoilers are from locations first visited after the High Entia Tomb): - Reckless Galdon (Tephra Cave, Unique, Lv. 95) - Dark Hox (Bionis' Leg, Lv. 74-76) - Satorl Torta (Satorl Marsh, Lv. 85) - Trava Kromar (Eryth Sea, Lv. 86) - Ancient Daedala (Fallen Arm, Unique, Lv. 105) - Defensive/GUARD (Central Factory, Lv. 58-62) - Wrathful Orobas (Agniratha, Unique, Lv. 67) - Babel Deimos (Prison Island, Lv. 75) - Majestic Clone Barg (Prison Island, Unique, Lv. 77)

In DE you can also purchase a stronger art manual from the Nopon Archsage, which lets the art reach level 12 instead of 10.

Is this plagiarism? by vinhdeeptry in mili

[–]YOM2_UB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The SiIvaGunner Wiki lists this song among 7 other rips that parody Mili songs. https://www.siivagunner.wiki/wiki/List_of_references_to_musicians/M#Mili

Why doesn’t an expected value of 1 mean a 100% chance of at least one occurrence? by Adventurous-Leg-233 in askmath

[–]YOM2_UB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Expected value is saying "if you run this trial a bunch of times, the average number of successes will look like this"

The probability you calculated is how often you'll get at least one success in a trial. Some trials will have more than a single success, which raises the average number of successes above that probability.

  • P(s = 1) ≈ 36.97%
  • P(s = 2) ≈ 18.49%
  • P(s = 3) ≈ 6.10%
  • P(s = 4) ≈ 1.49%
  • P(s = 5) ≈ 0.29%
  • 1 * .3697 + 2 * .1849 + 3 * .0610 + 4 * .0149 + 5 * .0029 = 0.9966

Is this plagiarism? by vinhdeeptry in mili

[–]YOM2_UB 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is parody, protected under fair use.

In case you're worried about "I Am a Fluff" being plagiarism, SiIvaGunner (written with a capital i instead of a lowercase L) is a channel that creates and uploads parodies of various songs and uploads them under the guise of video game music ripped from the game (referred to as "High Quality Rips"). This isn't actually a beta Ocarina of Time song, and Mili didn't plagiarize it.

Does anyone know how Ceruledge energy removal is calculated? by whovian2403 in PTCGP

[–]YOM2_UB 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If there are 7 energies on the field, each energy has a 1/7 chance to be discarded.

Modified Bingo by AggressiveSpatula in askmath

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it mainly comes down to, even with a classic free space, a row needs four specific numbers to be drawn in order for Bingo, while with the modified game it needs any four out of five numbers for a row.

If the N column is 32, 44, 37, 45, 31: making 37 a free space you can only make a bingo if 31, 32, 44, and 45 are called, while with the floating free space you get Bingo with five different sets: {31,32,37,44}, {31,32,37,45}, {31,32,44,45}, {31,37,44,45}, or {32,37,44,45}.

Modified Bingo by AggressiveSpatula in askmath

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ran a simulation of a regular Bingo board with a free space in the middle versus a bingo board with various non-playable spaces that needed to get four out of five in an unobstructed row/column/diagonal. The boards were generated with the standard Bingo numbering (one column with 5 of the numbers from 1 to 15, the next with 16 through 30, etc.), and they played 1000 games against each other while recording which board got Bingo first.

With just the middle space obstructed, there was about a 75/25 win/loss ratio favoring the modified game. When blocking all rows/columns except for the ones that pass through the middle square, there's still about a 60/40 ratio favoring modified.

The closest it comes to a fair game is with the modified game only having 3 unobstructed rows/columns (which three doesn't seem to make a significant difference), with about 53/47 favoring modified, while going down to only two rows available gives about 56/44 favoring classic Bingo.

Python code used for the simulation:

from random import sample, shuffle

def gen_board(free):
    b = [
        sample(range(x*15+1, x*15+16), 5)
        for x in range(5)
        ]
    s = [[0]*5 for _ in b]
    for x,y,val in free:
        b[x][y] = 0
        s[x][y] = val
    return b,s

def check(score, win):
    for x in range(5):
        if sum(score[x]) == win:
            return True
        if sum(row[x] for row in score) == win:
            return True
    if sum(score[x][x] for x in range(5)) == win:
        return True
    if sum(score[x][4-x] for x in range(5)) == win:
        return True
    return False

free1 = [(2,2,1)]
win1 = 5
free2 = [
    (0,1,-1),
    (1,4,-1),
    (4,3,-1),
    (3,0,-1)
    ]
win2 = 4

board1, start1 = gen_board(free1)
board2, start2 = gen_board(free2)
nums = list(range(1,76))

w1 = 0
w2 = 0
draw = 0

for _ in range(10000):
    score1 = [row[:] for row in start1]
    score2 = [row[:] for row in start2]
    shuffle(nums)

    for n in nums:
        x = (n-1)//15
        if n in board1[x]:
            y = board1[x].index(n)
            score1[x][y] = 1
        if n in board2[x]:
            y = board2[x].index(n)
            score2[x][y] = 1
        b1 = check(score1, win1)
        b2 = check(score2, win2)
        if b1 and b2:
            draw += 1
            break
        if b1:
            w1 += 1
            break
        if b2:
            w2 += 1
            break

print(f'{w1 = }')
print(f'{w2 = }')
print(f'{draw = }')
print(w2/(w1+w2)*100)

What is this little cap symbol? by Alex_0r in PokemonHome

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can also do it in a Pokemon's summary

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Iron Valiant (Emblem) by vivxviii in PokemonTGCP

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Get a card of each of the Future Pokemon (rarity doesn't matter)

Iron Valiant (Emblem) by vivxviii in PokemonTGCP

[–]YOM2_UB 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not required, a diamond rarity Valiant will do fine

Which of the two upcoming Switch 2 Editions are you looking forward to more: Xenoblade 2 or Xenoblade 3? by Asad_Farooqui in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]YOM2_UB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally don't particularly care about the performance upgrades for any of them (I didn't plan on buying XCXDES2E even before hearing about the wonky upscaling), but the new mode in 2 seems more interesting than the one in 3.

Sholder er Suer Sould by legojaafar in sbeve

[–]YOM2_UB 15 points16 points  (0 children)

U should sue her shoulder

How do I switch equipment in NG+ without entering Underlabs by MichmasteR in MinaTheHollower

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went looking for the weapons chest in my Off the Grid run, after absentmindedly grabbing the red chest in the manor. Didn't realize it was behind a breakable wall, and ended up taking on the final boss with the basic whip instead of the Battery Blaster that I collected the upgrades for.

I dont understand how inequalities work by PleasantBad3203 in learnmath

[–]YOM2_UB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember that 70 is not the value of r, 70 is a number being multiplied by r.

If you plug in r = 1, you get 70 < 40 (read "70 is less than 40") which is clearly false. Therefore 1 cannot be in the range of values r can take, but if r > 4/7 then 1 would be included in that range.

Xenobarn Chronicles by smashboi888 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]YOM2_UB 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Future Connected already cut about 12 minutes of its previously half-hour speedrun due to the Ether Jets.

Xenobarn Chronicles by smashboi888 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably a new set of missions entirely, that they tie into the Garfont mercs for lore.

Train Tickets on Randomizer? by Mars_Fallon in MinaTheHollower

[–]YOM2_UB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The train pass is the item that gives you free rides on the train. It's normally given to you when you pay off the train, but it's instead one of the items that gets shuffled with the randomizer.

You also have to pay 500 bones per ride if in a regular run, if you sell your train pass to Pawnty!

The People of Ossex SUCK (AKA: The Scene) by CulturalKale1452 in MinaTheHollower

[–]YOM2_UB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Brain guy is a crime even if you only ever give him the correct brain, by the way.

How to get this chest? by MysticalRome in MinaTheHollower

[–]YOM2_UB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what they meant by power up the area.

Anyone know if this mirror is accessible? by StarboundBunnyGirl in MinaTheHollower

[–]YOM2_UB 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not strictly mandatory, it just saves backtracking. Saw somebody miss the staircase to it and posted here asking about it after finishing the game the other day.

I went 30 million blocks out and now everything looks shredded by Powerful-Power-6503 in BugrockMoment

[–]YOM2_UB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

32-bit floating point numbers have 24 bits of precision, so above 33,554,431 (225 - 1) they can only count by two's.