Watching the lunar eclipse

> Subtrahend your minuend, Sir, or face the consequences!

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@CowperKettle It was so cool

@user1732 Given the number of rooms you're in, I guess you're Skull?

@userr2684291 You're at best Spider-kid

@userr2684291 It sounds like a Dracula of the children stories

@snailboat God, why did they need a word for that . . .

@snailboat This one makes more sense

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Hahah. Well said.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ My friend from Australia often sends me pictures of spiders they find around the house. They're amazingly creepy. They told me about one of their relatives who'd moved into a house they'd built in the middle of a desert. They decided against installing doors, and the entire house is crawling with spiders and other critters.

The guy says "I don't touch them and they don't touch me".

I'm surprised snailboat hadn't heard of subtrahend and minuend before. I think we'd'd (<- I can dream) a question regarding all these terms.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ for the same reason they use word "dividend"

and good guess ;)

minuend - subtrahend = difference

@user1732 Do you like math?

yup

@user1732 Alright, so, a brick weighs a pound and half a brick. How much does the brick weigh?

1.5 lbs

Nope.

ok, what's the answer?

Two pounds.

how?

Well, the equals sign in math isn't quite that of assignment. So by answering 1.5 pounds and following your own logic, you'd arrive at a new conclusion that the brick weighs 1 pound plus 0.75 pounds, which is now 1.75 pounds.

right

There are two ways of solving the problem. The first is by turning that into an equation: w_brick = 1 + 1/2 * w_brick, which yields w_brick = 2. The second is by reading the problem carefully. If a brick weighs one pound, and the rest is its half, then that one pound was its first half.

::puts userr2684291 on ignore::

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gotta run pal

thanks for the puzzle

You're welcome, and good bye.

(:

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: 'Is' vs 'has been' by Kulbir Kaur on ell.SE

Right.

I can't quite understand what a video NASA was playing about.

it said "It was a very small percentage closer, but not so much that it was as big as the moon as some claimed."

@CaptainBohemian What part don't you understand? Things that are closer appear bigger.

@ColleenV Ok, wow, I didn't know how to get here. Thanks.

@userr2684291 The ones that move slowly are the creepiest

@userr2684291 I just feel the structure "not so much that it was as big as the moon" is a little unusual. But I probably know what it means.

@userr2684291 also, "but" is used a little strange therein. Since it's only small percentage closer, it is justly not as big as the moon. So why is "but" used there?

@userr2684291 Depends

"The abeyance of insects by use of short horsetail staffs and fans is ancient." from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-killing_device#History Is this a normal use of abeyance?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Do you own any china?

Mostly just Iran

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Do you have a perforated bowl?

I didn't mean to send that, actually.

Haha

But I've reassigned my keys, so yeah...

I'm fine with my kidney condition, thank you

Lol, I really didn't even attempt to make any references to that, but I can see how you might've interpreted it as such, I guess.

I'm the best at interpreting. My interpretations are the best

I came across this definition of colander in the ODE a long time ago (when I looked that up) and I really liked it: "A perforated bowl used to strain off liquid from food after washing or cooking." So I randomly typed the first three words here. I really like that definition. It might just be my favorite definition.