#hashtag math

[hollowslantern]

[chiquilines]

At it again

[iridescentholly]

X spells in magic the gathering are where the fact it was designed by a maths guy really pops. Majority of the maths in magic is "can I pay cost" or "is damage dealt enough to kill a creature/player", so playing around with that number being variable rather than fixed makes some sense, and maths has X as a default variable, so you get fireball

right there in the first set - variable cost for variable damage, 1:1. This spell is great for ending games, which makes up for it's poor rate for the time (see lightning bolt, where you pay 1 mana for 3 damage)

So now you can use X for the cost to give a linear scaling effect, such as additional counters on creatures

Where we get really mathsy next is the relatively few examples of effectively "do something X times, X times" for example:

These two cards are roughly equivalent in what they do to the previous two - but appear to scale at a much worse rate, having to pay two or three times the cost for each time you do "X" but the trick here is these aren't actually scaling linearly, they're scaling quadratically, making them much more effective than they seem.

Anyway all this to say that sometimes evaluating how good a magic card can require understanding quadratic scaling!*

*but almost never will because these effects are almost certainly intentionally costed too highly and attached to traditionally uncompetitive effects, likely so that players don't actually have to think about quadratic scaling. This is probably for the best. Also there's one card that scales exponentially (2 to the power of X) rather than quadratically (X to the power of 2). It's literally called exponential growth.

[sir-arlieosaurus-lung-struggler]

Lmao just remembered the time my art teacher awkwardly handed me "the times I knew I was gay" by Eleanor Crewes cause I checked it out & the school library delivered it 💀

[lesbianralzarek]

i got 99% on an exam i was dreading and i was sooo brave and i only threw up a little bit :) unfortunately i had to take 2 tabs of adderall at 4pm and subsequently i will not be escaping my dogshit sleep schedule tonight :( but i got 99% :)

[projectdivaar]

41% on my maths test...

[lesbiantrish]

“chiron always says our parents made camp as this safe magic space

the truth? it’s so they don’t have to see us”

vs in the tlt when percy wondered why the bathrooms were so dirty if they were a gift from the gods

[honexjams]

tryna eat vicariously thru food snapchat stories cos we aint got good food in the house and its pissing me off so bad every other video is 'girlhood is unbottoning ur pants after dinner' 'this is how single girlies eat' 'my girlfriend when i take her to eat' 'girlies when they eat together' 'how girls eat alone' i think tiktok is a poison. what is the insane focus on how grown women eat why is it framed like hash tag girl life every time who are you people

[unicornsaures]

oh my god i need to stop going onto tumblr after writint a single sentence. Doli this is why you cant get shit done

[eric-the-disposable-demon]

[iamallyetnotatall]

The would be 3 for Compass and 23 for Museum.

(26 * 11.5% = 2.99 & 26 * 88.5% = 23.01)

Making a poll

You can find my reasons for wanting the name change here (I hope).

Also I did look for if museumshipping was taken or not and it wasn't.

[uranium]

writhing around on the floor and screaming get me OUTTTTTT let me GRADUATEEEEEEEEE

[abnomi]

trying to figure them out

[punk-o-ween]

thanks for the recommendation!!! (idk why, but boy division is now one of my favourites) 🫶🏽🫶🏽

AAAA HELL FUCKING YEAH IM SO GLAD U LIKE EM !! boy division is such a damn banger im tired of mcr dropping the beats 😡😡😡

[msexcelfractal]

"Octothorpe"

On each iteration, each cell takes the mod 2 sum of its neighbors in a surrounding #-shaped region.

At higher modulus this rule draws daisies:

mod 7

mod 5

mod 11