Sunday, April 02, 2006

for the cardboard waits with eager longing

FWA 06 - who would have thought? When you mix a handful of Christian nerds, a life giving message and a lot of pegs, you'd expect something remarkable... but I never, despite my eager excitement, could have imagined just how much life would be given.

Now, I feel the need for a formula:

Sleep Requirement: S(T) = N(w) + ALσ(n) exp(F(t)Φ(t)) / s(t+T)

where F(t) = food consumption over time
Φ(t) = fun acquisition over time
s(t) = sleep acquisition over time
σ(n) = general spading activity per camp attendee
L = teaching quality factor
A = arbitrary personality constant
t = time since start of camp
T = time since end of camp
N(w) = formula writer's nerd factor: function of formulas written

Watch this space, I'll write soon.

5 comments:

  1. You're such a dag,
    If fac-leading had nothing to do with godliness and being a Christian leader, you'd deserve to be science fac leader, purely due to your nerdiness factor!

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  2. I've only learnt it from the best bunch of nerds anyone could ever hope to know ;o)

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  3. hehe oooooh dear =P
    nice blog though by the way =)

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  4. Iain, Spading per camper is an almost zero number, it could probably be insignifcant- therefore you're multiplying teaching quality by such a small number. I disagree with your formula, or at least my understanding of it... I wonder if there was pasta for dinner...

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  5. yeah that's how it's supposed to work, because it's a sleep requirement function, so the smaller the answer the less sleep you need. And the teaching factor was very high. If you're worried, you can insert (1+σ(n)) in the place of σ(n) so that it can't bottom out.

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