[PBEM] Sneak Attack

[aebbeka]

Beurocracy happened, and some other things, but the rest is top secret.

That's Tom Petty in the picture, and yes, I just switched state religion to Christianity. I always thought it was automatic and never thought to check.

Krazy, go ahead and switch to Fiber Optics, we don't need Ecology. SS Cockpit is all we need.

[KrazyE]

Alright, you got it. It'll be just 7 more turns. Then we'll send our spaceship off.

Blasted off to Lumpkin

[Lumpkin]

off to sabre

[sabrewolf]

our SDI will shoot down your alpha centauri rocket during liftoff. you might remember our test-shots: challenger 1986 and another shuttle 3 years ago...

anyhow, 1150ad to the guy with 2 yaroslavl's (why actually?)

[aebbeka]

One is yaroslavl and one is yaroslavl' (prime) It's a calculus thing...

Actually, the when I built the apostropheless city, i was thinking, that's stupid, who puts and apostrophe at the end of a name!? So I took it off, then it wanted that name for the next city as well. No way to get it to skip to the next name.

I should change one to something funny. I wanted Krazy to call his new city Gilligan's Island, but he refused I guess. Good luck attacking it, hope you have marines. (yes, I know, in just 4 turns you could have them)

Oh yea.. sent to Sabre.

[sabrewolf]

i didn't know the tern "prime", but if the notation is the same on both sides of the continent, then it's the first level of derivation, right?
however, as yaroslavl is just a constant number, deriving it will make it to 0. and zero is precisely what yaroslavl' will be after i raze it with amphibious-upgraded tanks


oh yea... and you sent it to krazy

[aebbeka]

What continent? Yep, it's the derivative. Yaroslavl isn't a constant number, it's 7 variables. (Y * a^2 * r * o * s * l^2 * v)' Have fun with the product rule, if it can even be done.

[KrazyE]

Oh yeah, sent to Lump

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by aebbeka
What continent? Yep, it's the derivative. Yaroslavl isn't a constant number, it's 7 variables. (Y * a^2 * r * o * s * l^2 * v)' Have fun with the product rule, if it can even be done.

have you ever played scrabble? a = 1, o = 1, s = 1, etc.
so in the end Yaroslavl = approx. 14.

(14) ' = 0
it's that simple... Q.E.D :-p

[sabrewolf]

oh, and i did not mean "both sides of the continent" but "both sides of the ocean"... same difference

[sabrewolf]

1160ad to aebbeka

[aebbeka]

Sent to the one with the desert continent. It's going to come in handy though when we control all the oil in the world!

The variables are not assigned to anything. According to you the derivative of x^2 is 0, because x is 8 in Scrabble... How did you convince your math teacher of that one?

[KrazyE]

Sent to Lumpkin

[sabrewolf]

1170ad to aebbeka

well, (x^2)' is only 2x if you actually derive by x (df / dx). however, we ALL know that when deriving yaroslavl we have to derive by the character ñ.... EVERYBODY knows that... don't you?

[sabrewolf]

but actually you're right... the end yield is not 0... 0 is just what's left for you. for me the end result will be 180g, when i pillage it and all surrounding villages