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9:57 AM

@eimyr See also.

trogdor

10:31 AM

lol

10:44 AM

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7:29 PM

I just re-read Digger and now I really feel like consuming something similar.

2 hours later…

9:19 PM

@Anaphory Well, she's written a wide variety of other things. For whimsical graphic novels, Dragonbreath. For practical heroines in dangerously mythic situations, everything under the name T Kingfisher.

And I hear the Hamster Princess series is awesome.

Any idea what's most … anthropological?

....Nine Goblins?

Cool, will order.

You might also find her old Gearworld work interesting.

Gearworld is a techno-organic underground realm being explored by Eland the Younger and his friend Heinrich. It's also the only setting that Vernon can't conjure on order, but arrives unbidden in fits and bursts which demand to be recorded immediately.

9:54 PM

I have started reading it, and it lacks illustrations where there should be some :(

Gearworld art on Deviantart; (a very little) Gearworld art on her blog. Not safe for work.

10:21 PM

@Shalvenay sorry--was at in-law's for the we/end. ~~Working on final paper for current course right now.~~ Procrastinating working on final paper for current course right now.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 ah

10:51 PM

Looking for a word: a horizontal line goes out some distance, then angles back while dropping down. Like the way the leading edge of the bow of a boat cuts back from the deck-line.

"Resect" keeps jumping to the front of my brain, but it's just looking for attention. It's not the right word.

Any thoughts?

For context, looking for the word to help explain this system of multiplying large numbers:

where we're multiplying 3982 x 44

It's the alignment of the '44' that needs describing.

11:09 PM

… If you have a word for the opposite concept, just switch the intermediate lines …

(Sorry, not being helpful)

@nitsua60 Long multiplication? (Also not being helpful.)

No, it's the word for the arrangement of the second (retreating 45-deg) line w.r.t. the first (horizontal) that I'm looking for.

(So not describing the system, really, just for the layout of elements within the method)

decreasing indentation isn't it either

In other methods one might have a multiplicand horizontal and multiplier vertically running down the side. In this one the multiplicand is horizontal and multiplier is...?

Are you trying to contrast those methods?

11:13 PM

@nitsua60 Not sure, but you could avoid the problem by writing in the invisible 0.

Not if the goal is to compare the different ways of writing.

I'm writing a paper that traces the development of our current system (which does exactly that), and the above example sits in a 1478 treatise on business methods.

Cool stuff!

Hm.

“aligned diagonally”?

Bother ell.stackexchange.com?

@nitsua60 (This may be a good way of phrasing the question)

"recede"?

Arte dell'Abbaco, for any who care =)

11:20 PM

retrograde.

hmm... maybe

recessed.

or maybe just "receding diagonal"

indented

(what the hey, "recede"?)

11:22 PM

@nitsua60 200-odd years after Leonardo Fibonacci, I thought that guy was so much later with his promoting this new-fangled position system…

Q: What is the Source of the Role-Playing Games cover art?

Babylonians were facile with a floating point =)

The Oracle

What is the source material for the rpg.se cover art? Why are cyborgs shooting a dragon with beam weapons?

discussion

omg, @Miniman even beats me to comment-linking!

@nitsua60 Heh.

it took me too long, 'cause I searched "graduation" before searching "site design" =\

11:31 PM

Definitely doesn't indicate that I've given in and started leaving a tab open while at work...

...and there goes my hope of beating Miniman to an answer ever again =(

(let's hope he doesn't realize that if he leaves two tabs open he'll see the (1) notification on the mainsite tab title a minute or two before a new question pops into the chat-window feed...)