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Originally Posted by Destiny  Merlin, Destiny was much better at Muggle Studies than Arithmancy. She didn't know how Evelyn could like this class so much and not only that, the girl understood it all! Too many numbers make Destiny a wonky girl.
She'd much rather listen to Professor Zoocarcass talk about the teph-a-lone than figure out whatever it was she was supposed to figure out. Pulling out a piece of parchment, because up until that point she didn't need any, she got to work figuring this stuff out. Too bad she didn't share her whole name with Evelyn. Would have made this a LOT easier.
It looked right. But, looks could be deceiving. Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn Aw right, the telliphone numbers. What did their expression number using that muggle device's numbers have to do with anything though? It was just the one that was using the Pythagorean number system that really mattered right? Or..maybe not. Who knows.
The professor knew, but Evelyn didn't feel like asking. Not when everything lapsed into silence...unless it was Salander who was talking. Hehe, long name?
Glancing down to her notebook, she decided to just use another page since this one was full of pointless drawings and such, and took up too much space. New page then! Pausing with the twirling licorice act, Evelyn leaned forward and started on the calculations. Meh, it failed that she had to use just her regular last name. Pfft.
Josephina walked around the room, nodding as she checked the students work; it was rather tedious but there were certain things - after doing this for years - that begin to jump out at you when you realize how blatantly wrong the answer was.
That was not the case with some of these brilliant future Arithmancy experts. "Nice work, girls" she said approvingly, before moving onto the next. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi looked up from her work and blushed red like a tomato. The professor did have a point, but she was just used to adding things up in a straight line without breaking things down into smaller parts - at least, that is how she had been trained to do math in her muggle school. Kurumi nodded to the professor shyly and wondered if she should completely start over when she looked back at the board to see that the professor had broken things down into smaller bits...She was pretty sure she had done the calculations correctly...but now she was freaking out, on the inside of course. " P-P-Professor...are my calculations wrong?" she asked in a timid voice.
Kurumi flew back to her parchment and scratched out her previous work to mimic the method the professor had written on the board.
Breathing huge sigh of relief, Kurumi set down her quill. At least now she knew that she was correct in her original calculations! Oh this girl was panicking! Such a young, overachieving mind; much like Fina when she was younger. The girl's worries got the best of her as she set to reworking her calculations. "No, you're not wrong, as you can see, it makes no difference, but I personally find it easier and less room for error if you simplify each name down to a single digit before adding them together. Smaller numbers are much easier to work with, wouldn't you agree?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Canoir Greengrass Freya let out a small sighed, she never good at juggling numbers. She took out piece of parchment and a quill from her back before she began scribing her Pythagorean and Telephone Number. "Better be done with it then" she muttered to herself. Blatant errors that stood out on the page, like this particular Slytherin's work. "My dear! Your calculations are soooo very close to being correct, except on both systems, you misadded the final numbers. Take the first one for instance, you added 1, 6, and 3, which does in fact equal 10, not 11. Good effort though just be sure to pay attention to details throughout the whole calculation not just the beginning." Quote:
Originally Posted by mellamaet Cass hadn't been paying any attention to the class....she felt terribly about it...she just wasn't feeling like herself lately. Then she noticed that her classmates started writing on their parchments, so that would mean there was an activity. She looked up from her own blank piece of parchment and saw that there was an example of the activity on the board. She sighed softly before reaching for her quill. Another who failed to pay attention to those finer details, but this one unlike Kurumi, added wrongly of those big numbers. At least with the Pythagorean System, which was technically speaking, the more important one.
"As I've suggested to one of your fellow students, Miss Prewett, it is advisable to reduce the numbers from each name down to a single digit before adding them together. It doesn't appear to make a difference, but the numbers are easier to work with and less room for addition errors, as seen in your Pythagorean calculation." Fina explained to the girl. "Please check your addition on that particular system especially, as I think you'll find the number to be incorrect. Good work otherwise though" Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverTiger As they started the arithmancy discussion, Grayson had started sort of doodling in her notes. Not to the extent that she wasn't paying attention, but at least she was doing something. And besides, she somewhat knew about the expression number and all that. From reading, and getting bored enough to do random calculations. But a faint grin had crept onto her face at Salander's question about what they needed to use name-wise. Oh, she knew where that had come from, even if it seemed Professor Hadley didn't. Or the professor just didn't care. Either way it was amusing to her, and reminded her of violins again.
But then they were really officially expected to do their own calculations, and she let herself get back to a more serious mode. And flipped to a clean sheet of paper. No need to use her doodled paper for this, especially if her work would be examined at some point. Then she started scribbling.
As she finished, she raised her hand. "Professor Hadley? Do master numbers count with the telephone system?" if she wasn't mistaken, eleven was one of those, and she definitely had an eleven in there. Ah Ravenclaws; Josephina was sure that the fourth year had a number of questions turning in her brain - like what was the point of doing this with the telephone number system? Or does this even matter? But that wasn't the question that was asked.
"Miss Kelly," Fina addressed, mostly to bide her time with creating a thoughtful answer. "Master numbers are only of relevance if it is the number before directly before you reduce to a single digit. For instance, the number eleven needs to appear right before you reduce to the final answer. If it is just one of the components in one name, then it bears no significance and is just, ultimately, another number." Quote:
Originally Posted by Snape'sGirlThru&Thru So...calculations time with not one but two number systems. Well this would be interesting, wouldn't it? Vashti wondered briefly what her numbers would end up being and if it was possible to get the same one for both. That'd be cool.
Picking up her quill, Vashti began working out the equations.
Well, they weren't the same. Not that she'd really expected them to be, but it would've been neat if they were, wouldn't it? Vashti set her quill down, waiting for whatever they would be doing next. Continuing onto the next girl, Josephina nodded in approval. "Good work, Miss Greenwell" Not that she expected much different; the girl usually had fared nicely in her class - even last term. Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelsheen Ok, that took a while....
Salander finally looked up from his parchment, trying to squeeze the creak out of his neck. It took that long to finish writing his name as stated on his birth certificate, coding them into the respective number system, adding and reducing the numbers down as the Professor requested.
He looked to Grayson's question and raised a weary hand "Same question here Professor. I've had 11 come up several times, and in the Pythagorean system, the final sum was 11 as well, unless you want us to reduce it further to 2? " Oh it was that Slytherin Boy again, who seemed to have a similar question as Miss Kelly. Hoping he was listening to her response to Grayson, she looked over the work, eyes bulging at the length of his name. No wonder some kids didn't like Arithmancy; if she had a name like that, well no scratch that, she would probably still like it. But she could definitely understand frustrations about how time-consuming it was... And ...
"Like I've said to Miss Kelly, the number 11 only matters when it comes as the final sum. So you should present your answer as eleven slash two, because it is significant, particular for the core numbers to get a master number for your final sum, as your interpretation will read different from just an ordinary two." Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles Erg. Legend wanted to bang his head agaisnt the desk, or a wall. ANYTHING really. The fifth year resisted the urge though and picked up his quill. He swore that Hadley was doing this JUST to annoy him.
THERE done. FINALLY. Legend rested his head agaisnt the desk. He didn't care if people had finished way before him. LOOOK what he had to do. The Gryffindor didn't even care if some stuff were wrong. Josephina had to admit she was surprised to see Legend Chosen attempting the calculations; especially after he had tried to coerce her into giving him a slide on doing pretty much any sort of work. Overlooking his calculations, she understood why. Six names, true, but they were all short, minus the first two names. But even they weren't as long as Salander's name who had FIVE names and pretty much all were long, and yet Salander wasn't complaining and his calculations were correct.
"Mr Chosen . . ." She began, making it seem like she was displeased. Which she was, sort of, that he was complaining, when he had little to complain over compared to Salander. Perhaps the two could partner when it was necessary to do some calculations in the future? "I am impressed, first of all. And secondly, in the Pythagorean calculation, on your fourth name, you've made a minor error, as it should be 8, not 5. The extra 3 point difference would bring the final sum to 28, which makes your number a 1." Which actually, from her memory, fit nicely with what Katie had said in her office about him wanting to be king... Or in other words, a leader. Moving on though, Josephina glanced sideways at the clock. OH NOES! They've ran over the time limit for the lesson! "Sorry to disappoint you all," she looked over at her colleague, Professor Zookara for a moment before turning back and continuing. "But unfortunately we are out of time and the lesson has to draw to a close. Lucky for you guys too, we've decided to NOT give you any homework. However the material presented to you in this lesson is fair game for either the Muggle Studies or Arithmancy final, so don't throw away those notes. Class dismissed."
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