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Sho Minamimoto/Pi Face ([personal profile] grim_heaper) wrote in [community profile] diatu2019-05-25 12:19 am

Circular Logic - OTA

Who: Sho and anyone who finds him underground
What: Examining a mysterious circle.
Where: Underground
When: Mid-may
Warnings: Sho may try and kill someone again, maybe? It's Sho, so can't say for sho'.




A group of students, knowing Sho's interest in circles and magic had shown Sho the underground circle they had found. There are runes written around it in an ancient language. A proficient student explains that the runes clearly state that ten coins must be placed in the circle to activate it, but another student on the opposite side of it states that twenty coins are needed.

Looking to Sho, the professor considered a moment, then pulled out some tools and ran some calculations. First he took down the circumference, then the diameter. He leaned back on his heels, pleased that Pi was as it ought to be. So things were going right. He then explained to the students what he did and gave an impromptu lesson on Pi.

Once that was done he considered the students who suggested ten and twenty. "Please excuse my dear aunt sally," he said, nodding a bit. "Alright, let's start crunching some numerical ideas. Start with factoring this. If we wanted to meet halfway between the two how many would we use?"



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Re: sure!

[personal profile] sevenyearsasleep 2019-06-15 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Coins were a weird way to pay for things.

"No one keeps their money in jars and there's none in the grass either," Link said conversationally to another student, who looked at him as if he'd grown another head.
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Re: sure!

[personal profile] sevenyearsasleep 2019-06-16 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Um. What exactly are 'noise' or is that just a way to say 'shut up'?"

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Re: sure!

[personal profile] sevenyearsasleep 2019-06-16 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Monsters sometimes dropped rupees. That was easy enough to understand. The rest was a....well, it was a little convoluted.

That, and, Link hadn't really seen any monsters wandering around. Maybe he could try busking...