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I can't remember what made me think of this, but there's a bit in Snow Crash about powers of two, and I wondered if things had changed, and that people deal in higher level stuff than this these days. And it's just striking and a bit weird anyway that some people have had occasion to memorize this stuff, I wondered if you had...

[Poll #1217360]

Update: The "powers of two" are just 1+1 = 2, 2+2 = 4, 4+4 = 8, 8+8 = 16 and so on.

Update: it seems like it isn't clear from the above, so for the avoidance of doubt, no-one should feel that they should know this off by heart!

Date: 2008-07-04 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com
Have updated with a brief explanation.

Date: 2008-07-04 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladycat.livejournal.com
Ah. No I don't, but I've just realised I have every single one of the indicators of dyscalculia on the wikipedia entry. Hmmm, I wonder if some more scientific evidence might be useful.

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