The Post Your Thoughts of the Moment Thread 2

[Bubbles]

Haha...wish I lived in Pennsylvania.

I always thought you did. huh.

[Sebastian]

I always thought you did. huh.

I live about 2 hours from Chicago. My Grandma lives in Pennsylvania and my Great Grandparents live in Pittsburgh. I really like where my Grandma lives. Wish I lived there.

[K-NiGhT]

Bruh iowa tho

[SlowPokemon]

I want to live in a big city someday

[Sebastian]

Bruh iowa tho

We live an hour from Iowa. I take lessons in Dubuque, Iowa.

[Dude]

I find it amusing how your location says you're in Chicago but you're nowhere near it. You're on the complete opposite side of the state! xD

[Bubbles]

I am going to live in a big city someday

[Maelstrom]

I don't want to live in a big city someday

[Dude]

I want to live in a town with a Target and Starbucks someday

[SuperFireKirby]

Everyone just move to Seattle in a couple years and you can all party with NSM's very own good-time grandmaster, me.

[braix]

I used to live a couple minutes from the location of the first McDonald's.

[KefkaticFanatic]

Everyone just move to Seattle in a couple years and you can all party with NSM's very own good-time grandmaster, me.

Seattle confirmed pretty gud

[Zunawe]

My computer is currently computing the factorial of the number 6222227. It has been doing so for about 12 hours now. I'm excited.

Factorials

For those of you who forgot or haven't covered it, a factorial is a mathematical operation that multiplies a number by every integer between itself and 0. It is represented by an exclamation point. As you can imagine, the're big. 5! = 120, 6! = 720, and so on. For a little more perspective on how significant this calculation is, imagine calculating 150!. The first thing you do is multiply 150 by 149. And that by 148. And so on. Which means that the first 50 calculations alone, you do are multiplying by a number over 100. In other words, one third of the individual multiplications you must do are in total already much, much greater than 100^50. And it only gets bigger (263 digits long if you were wondering).

[close]

Computing

This doesn't really sound so exciting at first, but it's actually not an easy thing to do. When a computer creates an integer, it sets aside 4 bytes of data for said integer. This equates to 32 bits, which can store a maximum value of 2^32 - 1 = 4 294 967 295. And that sounds impressive until you need a bigger number. After that you need to find another way to store numbers. Also, it took 30 seconds to calculate 7000!. So fun math. And for those of you curious about memory and such, I'm running it on a virtual machine, so I can still do stuff on my computer. The VM is kinda dying though.

[close]

[KefkaticFanatic]

That's because you shouldn't be doing that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation

[Bloop]

That's because you shouldn't be doing that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation

What part am I supposed to understand here ;_;