You two are certainly the ones to talk...

Whenever I think of spammers on CD, the first names that come to mind are Ken and Stephanie...

Jeez.

:p

PHH! ive had enough of this

Brandon, Do me a favour and Close this thing its causing nothing but problems

Why wouldn't it have problems?

Even if it had a shred of seriousness.. it would mean the same teams qualify year after year, unless they quit the competition.

Nobody can really take thread like this seriously.

Then why are there 3 pages of replies?

Cory

cause some of us have a sense of humor

and enough humilty to not say someone elses humor is a waste of bandwidth

Brandon, Where are you?
make this stop

I like that...0550 is a palindrome.

Lets start with the thread.
Last I checked we were off season..but closing on the next one. We're bored.

Second


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Originally posted by IMDWalrus
[edit]Better yet, let's use palindrome numbers - numbers that read the same way forwards and backwards![/edit]


Depends on the base, cuz 360 is a palindrome in 12 bit binary!!!!!

Later

When Dean came to RIT last weekend, he talked about the selection process for the Championship this year.

The key thing he stressed is that FIRST has outgrown the ability to have all teams attend the Championship (obviously)

and FIRST it shifting the focus and emphasis from the Championship to the regionals. They hope to make the regionals as big a event for the students as the championship has been in the past

for several years we needed to travel to get to regionals because there were not enough teams in any given area to hold local events. The national was really frosting on the cake.

But now that we have so many regionals springing up, its possible for many teams to exists on small budgets, attending only the regional in their immediate area - the intention of FIRST is to make it so these teams feel they are every bit a part of the program, as the bigger teams with more funds who can fly to the championship every year.

They are still working on this - so the qualifications criteria has not been posted yet - but look for this new shift of focus in FIRST - look for more emphasis on local regionals, and ways to make it possible for small teams to travel to the championship maybe once every 3 or 4 years.

and remember the ultimate goal of FIRST: a team at every HS in the country. Obviously when we get there it will not be possible for every team to attend the championship - we are in between - growing pains?

How about for every team whose numberes addeds together then squared devided by 2 (just cuz it is a cool number) minus 5 times the 2nd prime number times 5 then minus the first non prime counting number times 5 whose answer is in its self also a prime number then that just means that they must be at the PRIME of theire game if they are that prime! :D

How about the first 300 teams that make robots that can solve that math problem are automatically eligible?

prime numbers what like what do you mean bye that i am lost:confused:

Nahhh, see below.
 

"'C' sub-one equals 'r' squared times the natural log of three over the cubed root of 'g.'"

I got that from my favorite FAQ. :)

Or they might just make it so quantum computer compatible teams can host their own champ. :yikes:

Re: Prime# teams at natonals
 

Oh, a joke. I get jokes.

^^Simpsons^^

I think that the prime number thing would take care of the problem of having too many teams pretty darn well. When we get too big again though I'd suggest going for only prime prime teams. That means that the first, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, etc prime numbers are selected. If that doesn't make your mind hurt a little - you probably enjoy programming.

Re: Prime# teams at natonals
 

everyone on team 1353 does not like this idea ... for the simple fact that we would not qualify .. how about every number divisible by 3?? that makes more sense .. :)