Can anyone figure out what this is supposed to mean? For those who haven't read Ender's Shadow: Bean is a young genius in a space battle school. He's tired from constant battle practice in this scene.The equation is easily solvable with algebra and doesn't have any significance in any field. I genuinely have no clue what Orson was going for here.
>>16136364Seems like he knew that the teachers all knew what was going on, and if they wanted to pretend that classwork still mattered, fine, let them, but *he* didn't have to play.
>>16136364It's meant to be meaningless nonsense, that's the point. Though why Card went to the effort to have the equation actually printed I have no idea. If I had to grasp for an answer, instead of writing 2 + 2 = 4 he wrote 2 + 2 = gibberish.
>>16136364n in this equation is an irrational number so it's "value" can't be known. Of course that is only if you aren't allowed to use pi in your notation. It may also be a smug jab at how gravity calculations also produce approximations and thus he can just round pi to 4 when doing them but pretty sure this is a children book so that's probably not it.
>>16136380N is easily solved you clown, n = (2+2)/pi^2-2 = -1.5947
>>16136394You might want to check your math, but yes, your point still stands.
>>16136394That's not it's value
Where is N?
>>16136400Value is subjective
>>16136366Brilliant observation, Anon. Absolutely outstanding.
>>16136470Thanks :D
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>>16136377Something like this. I think he was going for 2 + 2 = (some really hard equation the teachers will struggle with) because it's not gibberish. Only problem is any highschooler could solve this kek.
>>16136401I guess Bean ain't finishing the test lmao
>>16136364I already told you, OSC is just a mathlet.
>>16136364n is 16/pi^2-2now finish the test, midget
>>16137065Ok now tell me the value of N.
