ALL birds don't have 3 talons.

Absolutely true and absolutely irrelevant. There's a difference between taking a product and exponentiation.



SOF

3⁹⁹ means you multiply 3 by 3, and then by 3, and then by 3... you do that 99 times

EDIT: Sorry, you do that 98 times, if you start from 3

3⁹⁹ or 99³, doesn't matter, you'll always end up with the same result: 297.

Nice deflection, but it was too transparent. Just admit that you were wrong vis-a-vis the conditions of the hypothetical. I want to move on with my life.

But, you ALWAYS end up with the same result, so, how am I wrong?

x^y isn't x times y, it's x to the power of y.

5² = 5 * 5 = 25
2⁵ = 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 32


3 * 99 = 297
99 * 3 = 297
3⁹⁹ = ~ 17 with 46 zeros following
99³ = 970299

And anyway, the correct number of endings would be 3⁹⁹. That's slightly less than the number of atoms in planet earth.

F-

EDIT: LIJI was faster.

Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.

I'm not going to compete with that, not even going to try.
Fuck maths. Fuck the shit out of it.

99³ = 970 299
3⁹⁹ = 172 billion trillion trillion trillion

That's a very significant difference that SOF is absolutely right to call me out on. My mistake!

And it's the ones that do that evolved into Mudokons. Except they didn't. But they could have!

I thought talons were on the back? Claws are on the front.

AGHH!!

Looking at this reminds me of why i failed my maths A level :D
All i know is that 3^99 (my phone has no math functions) is 297 which = Good ending

< sup > < / sup >

No maths functions needed!

3⁹⁹
Ok thats cool :)

but... but it's *not* 297 =.=

I don't know whether I'm being trolled or not

My brain is close to shutting down, let's get this thread back on track so I don't overload.

I demand a thread about people unable to do simple calculations D|

I may have been a little harsh earlier when I implied that Nepsotic was trolling. So, my apologies for that.

But, as Varrok has emphasized, and LIJI has detailed, and as Wil has acknowledged, there is a difference between computing the product of two numbers and computing the nth power of some number (and that a^b does not equal b^a).

Anyway, I'm sure everyone has grown tired of this tangent; however, to the youngsters and the those otherwise unaware, don't forsake math -- it's full of beauty and utility.


SOF

PS: here is a link to a nice simple primer on combinatorics.

http://www.tutor-homework.com/Math_H...m6l6notes1.pdf

I thought this thread was about the second Abe HD screenshot. Not math :(
I hate math!

You're joking, right? There was just a whole goshdarned page of discussion about this.

^ != *

Indeed, and if they did, there is such a thing called convergent evolution, which means that, for instance, although sharks and dolphins have little relation, they both evolved many of the same characteristics, since they are optimal for living underwater, and thus species living under such conditions will often tend to end up with those aspects.

If we consider that the humanoid form is optimal for intelligent creatures, then it becomes plausible for birds to have evolved into Mudokons, which have a humanoid form. And since handling tools is of the most important characteristics for intelligent creatures, then the Mudokons evolving to have four fingers and thus become more apt in regards to handling tools becomes very much plausible, even if the birds they originally evolved from had only three talons.

There is a bony nodule in the back of most bird talons which could plausibly have evolved into another talon and eventually perhaps a dexterous attachment, thus I suppose it is perfectly plausible to have a four fingered mudokon.

4 fingers is canon, though? Right?

Yeah.

I hope that you guys are at least going to keep the more sanitised Mudokon Pop design. The head on a spike thing never made any sense to me, either from a marketing point of view or from the sense of scale. Are these snacks for giants?!

But it was dark... and gory ._. They said they won't change gory things

THESE HEADS LOOK SO DELICIOUS, I JUST CAN'T RESIST EATING THEM

The head on a spike makes more sense to me, since they wanted the meat of a Mudokon, that image to me did look like actual meat, but at the same time, why only the head? I'm sure other parts of the Mudokon could be useful.

The "sanitized" image looked like a frozen lollipop to me. Which yeah, meat can be frozen, but it looks like a lollipop you'd have on a hot day. Not something to go with the sunday dinner.

And, be honest, it's much, much less shocking to see just a lolipop in that intro revelation. Lolipops are silly.