and the Game American Mcgee's Alice doesnt help any :/
Sooo perfect. 
*has a beastlord named Jabberwokie* eeehehehe
Soon to have a rogue called Cheshire
I love the catterpillar. He's got all he needs in life right there: a magical mushroom and a hookah. Plus he's gurulike and cool.
Sar...
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
Lewis Carroll was a math genius. All of his 'Alice' stories were intended to be math primers, and have various mathematics formulas and concepts as the underlying parts of the stories.
The rest is ether-induced pedophelia. (L.C. is widely believed to have had a 'thing' for very young girls.)
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Lyinar was naked while typing this:
Gorey...doesn't he do the art for the John Bellairs books?
Yes, but as he passed away in 2000 the past tense is more applicable.
my faviote persion is the chesire cat,
"Here's a tricky one. On about the third page of chapter two, Alice starts speaking out some bizarre equations...
"Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is -- oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"
Alice is correct. 4*5=12... when expressed in base 18. Bases are different standards by which numbers are measured. We count in base 10, computers count in base 2 (a.k.a. binary). HTML colors are in base 16 (a.k.a. hexadecimal, like 1F(b16) is 31(b10)). So anyway, following this pattern...
4*5=12 (b18)
4*6=13 (b21)
4*7=14 (b24)
4*8=15 (b27)
4*9=16 (b30)
4*10=17 (b33)
4*11=18 (b36)
4*12=19 (b39)
4*13=1A (b42) (or about 32(b10) short of 20). The equation falls apart here. Alice will never get to 20 at this rate. " -Eeggs.com
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Chalesm had this to say about Optimus Prime:
I remember one of my favorite hidden things in Alice in Wonderland, that I didn't learn about until well after I finished the book. If Lewis Carroll hadn't been a mathematician, I would have been willing to write it up as a coincidence.
"Here's a tricky one. On about the third page of chapter two, Alice starts speaking out some bizarre equations..."Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is -- oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"
Alice is correct. 4*5=12... when expressed in base 18. Bases are different standards by which numbers are measured. We count in base 10, computers count in base 2 (a.k.a. binary). HTML colors are in base 16 (a.k.a. hexadecimal, like 1F(b16) is 31(b10)). So anyway, following this pattern...
4*5=12 (b18)
4*6=13 (b21)
4*7=14 (b24)
4*8=15 (b27)
4*9=16 (b30)
4*10=17 (b33)
4*11=18 (b36)
4*12=19 (b39)
4*13=1A (b42) (or about 32(b10) short of 20). The equation falls apart here. Alice will never get to 20 at this rate." -Eeggs.com
you think too much, its not healthy.
