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make food! make egg!

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:28 pm
by Alexis Janson
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this is every picture i can figure out how to make with 2 straight lines. How many pictures can you make with THREE straight lines?

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:29 am
by http://yahoo.com/
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10 minutes of work yields this

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:51 am
by MadTom
i think i need help

i immediately thought those were nordic runes

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:07 am
by Dr. Dos
Better than me.

I thought it was the Standard Galactic Alphabet :keen:

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:32 am
by Commodore
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:32 pm
by Alexis Janson
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:37 pm
by Ando
What does this thread got to do with food? And eggs?

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:36 pm
by Dr. Dos

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:41 pm
by http://yahoo.com/
flimsy are you drunk or something

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anyways if you want to be dumb about it you should probably make some more specific rules, because I followed every one you stipulated (use 3 lines)

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:58 pm
by Alexis Janson
I can't do much better though, admittedly

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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:08 pm
by MadTom
Flimsy wrote:pi has a wiggly top line
Not if it's uppercase!

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:17 pm
by Alexis Janson
Tomsacold wrote:
Flimsy wrote:pi has a wiggly top line
Not if it's uppercase!
fair enough!

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:23 pm
by MadTom
How do the last item in the second row and the first item in the fifth differ? Is it just that the first one is evenly spaced and the other isn't or what

I suppose it's really a question of how far the concept of a picture extends. That is, most people outside of ZZT probably wouldn't accept the three horizontal lines for a passage. Unless it has a meaning in mathematics, like a kind of equals sign? If it does I can't remember

EDIT:
Wikipedia wrote:The symbol [three horizontal lines] is often used to indicate an identity, or a congruence relation in modular arithmetic.
A bit obscure but I suppose it still counts

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:11 pm
by Dr. Dos
madtom if it's an ascii char it's there for a reason.

I had no idea what the fuck a torch was

and back when i first found zzt i didn't know there were symbols for Less Than or equal to/Greater than or equal to

I have to wonder how they decided to arrange the things though since A is char 65.

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:49 am
by Alexis Janson
Tomsacold wrote:How do the last item in the second row and the first item in the fifth differ? Is it just that the first one is evenly spaced and the other isn't or what
The first one is an asterisk, the other one is a russian letter. The first one should be smaller, really.