Behind the Burner 18 - It's over!

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem) 03/11/2016 at 09:15 • Filed to: Behind the Burner

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Behind the Burner

We discussed how many different ways two integers could ad to 6 and in the end our burner is the effervescent Borsuq .

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What happens now?

I will choose an Opponaught that has volunteered to login to a Reddit account and start a thread on /r/Oppositelock. In that thread they will be mercilessly interrogated by our crack team of Opponaught detectives with car related questions. They will answer all the car questions truthfully.

Everyone else?

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to head over to Reddit and ask the car related questions that burn brightest in your soul in an effort to divine which Opponaught is answering your questions. Anyone that wants to volunteer to be behind the burner should PM me on Reddit, where I am also CalzoneGolem.

We are getting thin on Burners if you want to volunteer now is the time.

. . > CalzoneGolem 03/11/2016 at 09:37

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I had a lot of fun. Thanks for playing guys. :D

CalzoneGolem > . . 03/11/2016 at 09:40

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That was a good one. Lots of activity.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CalzoneGolem 03/11/2016 at 09:46

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The integer thing: you didn’t specify whether all the integers had to be positive or, for that matter, nonzero. There are otherwise infinitely many ways to make two integers add up to 6.

Hoccy > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/11/2016 at 09:56

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I am yet to see an engine with a negative amount of cylinders.

CalzoneGolem > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/11/2016 at 10:19

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There’s always that guy.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CalzoneGolem 03/11/2016 at 13:57

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Yes, that guy who geeks on numeracy...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Hoccy 03/11/2016 at 14:19

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Dude said integer . There are lots — almost half of them, in fact — of negative integers.

Hoccy > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/11/2016 at 14:36

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Oh I know about integers and that there are infinite ways to get to six if you include the negative ones. I also get how CG was unprecise above.

If you clicked the actual reddit discussion you would see that the discussion involved positive integers (including zero), relevant to the number of cylinders in the engines of Borsuq’s cars. Hence the witty comment about negative cylinders.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Hoccy 03/11/2016 at 14:42

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Short answer: I was a math troll. Mea culpa . (I’m a middle school math teacher...)

Hoccy > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/11/2016 at 14:56

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No worries! I was just surprised to get such an answer to my comment, as I thought the context was pretty clear. I have taken three Uni-level courses in Calculus and Linear Algebra so I like to think that I know my way around most of the basic definitions.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Hoccy 03/11/2016 at 15:18

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It’s fun stuff. Lots of bright people in this space all trying to learn stuff from each other.