fandomhigh | Engineering Math, Period 2, 4 Sep '09

The Danger Shop was set up to mimic a regular high school classroom as the students arrived. Standing by a desk at the front of the room a syrup-free Mohinder counted off the arrivals as they got in.

Class assembled, Mohinder took up a casual perch on his desk, and started, "Welcome class. I'm Dr Suresh, and you're in Engineering Math. If you didn't intend to be, then you've a few minutes to find yourself somewhere else." He started passing out the syllabus and a couple of handouts. "Now, we'll start with some introductions before the actual maths. It's Friday so you should know this by now - let's have your name, hometown, and favourite or lucky number or numbers."

When the introductions were over Mohinder walked over the board behind him and stuck two brightly coloured magnets to it. "The shortest route between two places is easy. A straight line." He illustrated. "Adding a third point," he stuck another one up and connected it, adding more as he continued, "makes it only a little more difficult. But the more you add, the faster it becomes even more complicated. Brute force calculations - trying out every possibility - becomes impractical with even 20 cities." He digressed into the problems of computation for a few minutes.

"I'm not asking you to solve that," Mohinder finished. "Although if you're looking for a million dollars there's a prize currently available for its solution. We'll be starting with something more small scale. You all have pedometers on your desks." He hit a button on the remote he was holding and the room dissolved into a wider area with several coloured points. "And a shortest route to find."

[The OCD, it has arrived!]

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With numbers!

Like it says.

Who you are, where you come from, lucky/favourite numbers.

There's ~half a dozen moddable stations for you to get to in the shortest possible time/distance. You can race if you want.

In fact, it looks a lot like this (http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/games/index.html).

He's around if you have teacherly needs.

I spent way too long playing on those maps.

TA-ship is up for grabs if anyone wants it.

Hoshi Sato

"My name is Hoshi Sato, I'm originally from Kyoto, Japan, though Fandom feels a lot more like home than Kyoto these days," she began. "And my favorite number... I think I'd have to go with 7."

Naomi Wildman

"I'm Naomi Wildman," Naomi said, "I spent a couple of years living in San Francisco, California even though I grew up on a Starship called Voyager and I'd have to say my favourite number is 3,"

Elle Bishop

"I'm Elle Bishop, I'm originally from Ohio a long time ago, and... 14? Why not."

Is it wrong that I think it would be SO EFFIN' HILARIOUS for Elle to be the TA?

Danny Fenton

"I'm Danny Fenton, I'm from Amity Park, Illinois, and my lucky number is 2."

But she'd be so sweet and helpful! No? And what did being right ever do for anyone?

I had planned on being around at least a little bit this weekend, but I spent half the con with people who woke up earlier than me, and the other half with people who went to bed later than me. This shot my "play a bit when other people are sleeping" plan right in the face. Given that it's days later I wanted to check in and see if it would be okay if I signed Jaime in now and we handwaved his presence, or if you wanted to do something else.

I'm easy! And since it's my fault... (well, con's fault!) I can't complain if he gets in trouble.

Nah, handwavy's totally fine!

*pretends to've seen this yesterday, yup*

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