From aem @ sccs Tue Sep 12 17:06:34 2000 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:03:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Amy' Marinello To: _swat.org.swil @ swarthmore.edu Subject: What are the prime factors of SWILNews #12? Please note: ***************************************************** * * * MEETING WILL BEGIN AT 11:30 ON SATURDAY, APRIL 29 * * * ***************************************************** This is so that we can get through SWILBusiness and NonSWILBusiness quickly, and then move on to remembering our thirteen (eep! -q) seniors. 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993750158209749445 o/` Doo doo doo doo-doo, doo doo -- SWILNews! Doo doo doo doo-doo, doo doo dooo.... You're bitter about the fact that you don't get the new TV station Noggin. We know you are, because we are. Therefore, we bring you the next best thing to Square One Television... SWILNews! 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993750158209749445 SWILBusiness Despite it being Official Bring a Stuffed Animal to Meeting Week, the rabble was beyond pathetic. Perhaps it was because most of them didn't have stuffed animals. Perhaps it was because they were upset that seven ate nine. The fact remaains that they were just plain sad. If one film distributor claims to carry "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," and SWIL ends up showing three Schlock movies on VHS, at what time do the presidents go on a murderous rampage and burn Kit Parker? (Hint: We will show "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" Monday, "Gamera vs. Guiron" Tuesday, and "Mazes and Monsters" Wednesday of reading week, all in Kirby, at 10:30, 10:30, and 10:00 respectively.) Tuesday, April 25, 1899: There will be a talk, by Tamora Pierce, in the Scheuer Room, with the lead pipe. The title of the talk will be "The Creation of a Fantasy Writer--a Short Concerto in Books, Politics, and the Publishing Industry." Come learn how the topology of the real numbers affects children's fantasy! Walpurgisnacht is next Saturday! Come to the WRC at 8pm (or earlier, to help set up). Bring food or money for BDan, or preferably give him money in advance, and bring stories. Remember that to be appropriate for Walpurgisnacht, stories must contain arcane mathematical formulae, like the story that Will read last year. (The numbers don't lie! -a) This week's movie will be "Nosferatu," followed by a special showing by Arcadia of "The Unknown." Contrary to popular belief, "The Unknown" does *not* refer to the variable x. It refers to the variable y. You should have turned your t-shirt orders in( -b)to Franzi by noon today. She'll be placing the order tomorrow, so if you forgot to tell her what you wanted, it's too late. Really. (Numbers, numbers, numbers. Does it all have to be about numbers? -q) If 41 movies were nominated, and 15 will be shown next semester, with 3 alternates, what percentage of movies nominated will be shown? Which ones? Ah, that's a bit more complicated. We need your help, young Mathnetters, in solving this problem! Which 15 movies do *you* think will be shown next semester? All the details you will need to solve this problem will be found in a forthcoming email! 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993750158209749445 NonSWILBusiness SWAPA was collated on Saturday. Copy count was 39. There were 90 pages. We can now employ the technique of ~~MULTIPLICATION~~ to find out how many photocopies were made! Saturday, Kyla showed a few more episodes of Buffy. This brings the total number of hours of Buffy shown by Kyla to 14,394,876,102. (...Add... one... to it!... -abq) And on, and on, and on and on and on.... If 7 SWILfolk went to hear Liz Nickrenz sing in Paces Saturday night, 14 SWILfolk went to Harold & Maude & Sodatasting & Benny & Joon, 5 SWILfolk got pizza at Granite Run, and 4 SWILfolk participated in two or more of these activities, how many SWILfolk participated in all three? (My head is spinning... -a) (Hey, that's a neat trick! -q) (Does it help if you know the total number of SWILfolk? -b) (Help what? -q) DanB had four (two squared!) orchestra tickets left. If you're interested, check with him to see if they're still available. Abby got her wish for the Bahston Pahty--neither team won. Let's analyze the circumstances that could lead to such an outcome. Logic is part of math, too! 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993750158209749445 The Chocolate Pudding List -- 4/22/00 Pthomas "P" Pterodactyl Kyla "The non-me, non-chaos rabble was beyond pathetic" Tornheim Robert "making pterrariums and planting ptrees" McFarland Rebecca "The arberetum thinks I'm 5" Jones Sarah "Mind over matter! zzz..." Bergstrom Josh "and much silliness ensues" Burdick Melissa "no, seriously" Running Amy "but where is the chocolate pudding" Swift ~Elliot "The experiment actually worked!" Reed chaos "with a capital 'c'" golubitsky benjamin 'Mad prophet of the attendence list.' r, george & Callicles 'I got up early for this?' the moose. & Margaret 'some would call sitting in a bag on the floor undignified.' the camera. John "The King and the checker" Finkbiner Kara "slept late" Zor-El BDan "I am not live-action" Fairchild Dan "20+ hours of bickering.... Yay!" Blim :) Arcadia "you can't see me, but I can see you" Falcone 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993750158209749445 Abi-Wan Kenobi, Ben Kenobi, and Queen Amydala