My wife says I'm a big nerd.
We were watching the movie version of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, which is outstanding, and there's a scene where Ponder Stibbons is ruminating:
A few moments later, I got up from my chair and grabbed a calculator.
"You did not! You are such a big nerd!"
I shrugged.
"I was wrong anyway. I had 5.2 and it is 5.3."
To be fair, though, the novel does point out that Ponder's answer was only as specific as "five and a bit", so I don't feel quite so bad.
[EDIT: Apparently, I do math better in my head than I do on Angie's fancy calculator. As![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
daffyd pointed out, the correct answer is 5.23. So my mental approximation of 5.22 wasn't bad. I feel better now.]
We were watching the movie version of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, which is outstanding, and there's a scene where Ponder Stibbons is ruminating:
I'm in the dark waiting for the Hogfather. Me. A believer in Natural Philosophy. I can find the square root of 27.4 in my head. I shouldn't be doing this.
A few moments later, I got up from my chair and grabbed a calculator.
"You did not! You are such a big nerd!"
I shrugged.
"I was wrong anyway. I had 5.2 and it is 5.3."
To be fair, though, the novel does point out that Ponder's answer was only as specific as "five and a bit", so I don't feel quite so bad.
[EDIT: Apparently, I do math better in my head than I do on Angie's fancy calculator. As
daffyd pointed out, the correct answer is 5.23. So my mental approximation of 5.22 wasn't bad. I feel better now.]
