Re: [spoon-discuss] No, I haven't really forgotten...

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Someone made a guess in the Number Game a while back -- Orc, maybe? -- but
> I still can't figure out how to respond. No, really, I'm not sure what the
> hell a 'distance in five-dimensional space' or whatever that rule asks
> for, is.
>
> Someone's gonna have to explain it to me in terms a five-year-old can
> understand.
>
> ...dave
-The distance between two points on a plane is equal to the square root of 
the sum of the squares of delta x and delta y. Pythagorean theorem, for 
those of you going "what the...?".

So, the distance in 5-d space is, through some extrapolation of the 
Pythagoream theorem, distance^2 = (delta v)^2 + (delta w)^2 + (delta x)^2 + 
(delta y)^2 + (delta z)^2, where v, w, x, y, and z are the five numbers, and 
delta (letter) is the real number minus the guess.

You know, this is a dumb game. The odds of winning are 3.2 million to one. 
If you guess right, you should just win B Nomic, given those odds. We need 
an equalizer or something.-

[[BvS]]

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