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Post Icon Posted: Submitted by Prof1 on 13 February 2008 - 1:34pm.

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$ \begin{tabular}{lccccccccc}
& Steven & Newtonswig & Jebjoya & Swaran & Dave & Cosmin & Buggs & CJ & \\
Work For WMS & 10 & 10 & 8 & 6 & 9 & 6 & 4 & 0 &\\
Maths Rating & 7 & 9 & 7 & 8 & 10 & 8 & 4 & 5 &\\
Old Boy Value & 10 & 10 & 9 & 7 & 7 & 8 & 8 & 8 &\\
Geek Level & 5 & 3 & 6 & 2 & 4 & 7 & 5 & 8 &\\
President Probability & 0.2 & 0.25 & 1 & 0.1 & 0.95 & 0.7 & 0.3 & 0.2 &\\
Forum Presence & 9 & 8 & 7 & 2 & 2 & 10 & 8 & 9 &
\end{tabular} $

$ \begin{tabular}{lccccccccc}
& Kat & Xedi & Planktonboy & Sleeping Yeti & PBIG & Yun & Katie & Jenny& \\
Work For WMS & 4 & 1 & 0 & 2 & 0 & 3 & 5 & 4 &\\
Maths Rating & 4 & 6 & 4 & 5 & 1 & 3 & 4 & 4 &\\
Old Boy Value & 7 & 6 & 6 & 6 & 6 & 7 & 9 & 9&\\
Geek Level & 2 & 6 & 5 & 6 & 10 & 4 & 1 & 1 &\\
President Probability & 0.15 & 0.7 & 0.4 & 0.7 & 0.5 & 0.05 & 0.1 & 0.1 \\
Forum Presence & 1 & 7 & 6 & 3 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 2 &
\end{tabular} $

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:07pm

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What? PBiG Geek level 10?!?!

Also, the probablilities add to 6.3 and are almost totally random. It's funny enough, but fairly inaccurate at different spots. :P

Edit: 500th post. Guess that 10 forum presence rating wasn't too far off. :D

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:08pm

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your president probabilities don't add up to 1, noob.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:11pm

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Beat you to it, Ben. :P

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:22pm

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I was close though.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:24pm

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Stop being such GEEKS, I can say that, your geek levels are higher than mine.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:26pm

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Yeah the geek levels are totally off, I just don't agree with being beaten by CJ and especially PBIG !! He should have a negative geek value if anything...
And PBIG president probability of 0.5 :D
Just imagine WMS with him as president.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:32pm

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Yeah only one of you 2 has a japanese copy of SSBB, I have to work on my stats though, ATM I'm the useless card with no killer stats. Best get to grinding...

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:32pm

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Pathetic planktonboy. We are in the same physical room at time of posting. Is Xedi here too?

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:33pm

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Ditto. I think the person who made this considered the Geek Rating a negative attribute, whereas most of us apparenlty don't. :P

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:33pm

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Errr, no. This should do wonders for our geek stat.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:33pm

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Of course I'm not in the computer room, I'm playing my japanese copy of SSBB

Edit : and being in the computer room should actually lower your geek stat if it's above 5 anyway, real geeks don't use public PCs

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:36pm

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:o really? You don't do that very often. Is it working properly today? 'cause the bugs really annoying after a while.

edit: This happens to be slightly more convenient than my house thank-you. I could use my laptop but that would weigh a ton when cycling.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:37pm

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Actually, there's a point, what would we do if PBIG were to run for exec (president most likely, he probably thinks other positions beneath a mathematician of his callibre cough). I'm hoping he'll learn the value of humility before that happens, but we do nonetheless need to raise up some legendary figure who can run a counter-campaign if necessary. This is all in the distant future though, since Dave will probably win this time around.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:38pm

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Yes Planktonboby, it's working fine...
It's really not as bad as you're saying honestly... Haven't had ANY bugs whatsoever for quite a while now...

And the fact that you say it's more convenient to be in the computer room further reinforces the fact that you aren't a real geek.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:42pm

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If PBiG runs for president, it'll be the best thing to happen to the WMS elections in years! It would add so much unintentional comedy. We need to convince him to do it.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:43pm

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Dammit, I have somewhere to be at 2 O' clock. I can't cycle home, that much sunlight is bad for my skin :p

edit: Cosmin's right, and we should run his campaign for him.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:46pm

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we do not need to do it at all. To push him to run just to laugh at his expense is too cruel.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:50pm

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But we can have so much fun without directly poking fun at him. We could use that dodgy induction that all cows in the herd are the same colour to explain why he's going to win and hence you might as well vote for the winning candidate.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 2:51pm

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But unless he is a more humble mathmo by then, we don't actually wnat him to win. So running his campain would be a dishonest and decietful act. I'll have no part in it.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 3:50pm

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We could use that dodgy induction that all cows in the herd are the same colour to explain why he's going to win and hence you might as well vote for the winning candidate.
We need to do this. :D
Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 6:29pm

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So I'm geekier than Dave and have a forum presence of 8. Wtf

I hope for the sake of WMS, PBIG is never president. I think we should write it into the constitution that PBIG cannot run for president. I'll see if i can get it passed at the next exec meeting.

Actually I may not be on the exec at that point with the elections coming soon. Or acording to this i have a 30% chance of being president. Or a worse PBIG might be president and vito the decision! Where's the sniper when you need him.

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 6:48pm

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WTF indeed... :P

Post Icon Posted: 13 February 2008 - 9:19pm

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I think my fiancé might take offence to her quite high 'old boy rating'. But quite funny nonetheless.

But what's with the LaTeX tables?

htmlnotgoodenough
foryaeh?
Post Icon Posted: 14 February 2008 - 4:13am

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What is an "Old Boy Value" anyway?...

Post Icon Posted: 14 February 2008 - 12:32pm

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Well what do you think it means old boy, it jolly well means how much a feature of the society you are.

Post Icon Posted: 15 February 2008 - 12:58pm

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$ It \; was \; supposed \; to \; be \; how \; long \; you've \; been \; with \; the \; society. $

Post Icon Posted: 15 February 2008 - 1:14pm

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Well I consider it hard to be an 'old boy' of the society if you don't turn up to socials and DGs etc. I mean considering that you gave the same value to both Ben and I, I didn't associate with amount of time. Not that "old boy" really makes sense until you leave uni http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_boy_network, oh well. It's still a worthy stat.

Post Icon Posted: 15 February 2008 - 1:51pm

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$ It \; was \; supposed \; to \; be \; how \; long \; you've \; been \; with \; the \; society. $

You're just doing that to wind me up yeah? Think about the accessibility man!

Post Icon Posted: 15 February 2008 - 2:09pm

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It could be worse

Post Icon Posted: 15 February 2008 - 2:28pm

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Are we allowed to have posts which cause epileptic fits?

I guess it worked for the Olympics.

Post Icon Posted: 15 February 2008 - 7:25pm

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I have to admit the point of that post escapes me. :D

Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 5:06pm

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Ok... i'm sure that xedi's post could cause epileptic fits because of its flashy head-achey nature.

The London Olympics made a logo that cost a lot of money to have made but it was later banned due to the fact it caused epileptic fits.

Are you with me?

Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 6:34pm

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Thanks Alex, but there's no joke in the world which you could make that I wouldn't get... (at least not because of its subtlety) :P
My point was that there was no reason to post that since it was the use of $ \LaTeX $ instead of HTML that would wind Steven up, so the flashing text wasn't actually worse.

Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 6:54pm

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You can't say that the "accessibility" of my flashing text is not worse that just LaTeX...

Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 6:55pm

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And the flashing image might have quite a nice alt tag (which I might have edited in :-D)

Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 7:07pm

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It depends on the type of accessibility he was refering to. :P

Post Icon Posted: 20 February 2008 - 8:41pm

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Here's a full days procrastination.

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Post Icon Posted: 20 February 2008 - 11:54pm

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Dave Wood has an Erdos number of 4, having coauthored with Ian Stewart who has Erdos Number 3.

Post Icon Posted: 21 February 2008 - 12:18pm

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Wrong Top Trumps

Edit: Added to the spreadsheet though, all help is appreciated.