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We used a dash above the repeating digits. So e.g. for 1 divided by 11 the result looked something like this:
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0.09
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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Ok, but first please explain, I can add up figures but how the hell do I add up dots?
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Googled the answer. I wasn't familiar with that notation so I never would have guessed it.
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956 - 874... Just put the dots in a row so they look like a minus sign.
EDIT: Ok, looked up the answer... That's just silly...
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And she is a monster;
Earths Largest Ship Lifts Oil Platforms[^]
The simulation videos show it in action.
Hate to think how much diesel it burns to power 8 x 11MW engines! Then there is the one liner at the bottom that they want to build a bigger one!
Just think of all the technology and computing involved to maintain the dynamic positioning and synchronising all the cranes as well as all the load sharing in the engines. It is bad enough trying to keep our lot happy in load sharing across the asset.
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Has that thing ever been actually used for its intended purpose, or is this the first one?
Marc
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Don't know Marc. But imagine that the first time they try it, the engineers who designed and built here will be bricking it!
They must be quite convinced of getting work if they spent $1.3 billion building it.
Certainly has a market in decommissioning, and also possibly help to keep costs down in new assets by moving rigs around rather than having to build new ones, i.e. take an existing rig from an old field and moving it to a new field.
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Awesome bit of technology and huge!
DaveAuld wrote: Just think of all the technology and computing involved to maintain the dynamic positioning and synchronising all the cranes as well as all the load sharing in the engines. It is bad enough trying to keep our lot happy in load sharing across the asset.
Probably more than a couple of Arduino's eh? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Amazing stuff, Dave. Are you applying to drive that thing? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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In her first public speech she opines she was: "the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet" [^].
Yahoo: "1 p.m. ET, Lewinsky had already gained 18,000 followers."
This little coprolite of serendipity further reinforces my view that Twitter is to "popular culture" as Ebola is to virii.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: reputation completely destroyed
I thought it had enhanced her reputation. 
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A twit became a twist and now she's complaining she's been labeled a twit. The things that make you say hmmm.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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She's know for a spotty reputation, due in no small part to not doing her laundry when her clothes really needed it.
By the way - does anyone think that it would be a good business plan to name a cigar after her?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: By the way - does anyone think that it would be a good business plan to name a cigar after her?
Yes[^]
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BillWoodruff wrote: "the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet" [^].
It's really amusing how people blame this or that. Dear Monica - the only person responsible for destroying your reputation, is....YOU!
Though, not to be called a MCP (that's a Male Chauvinist Pig, not a Microsoft Certified Professional) I would agree that Bill did have a small part in that process to, if I, erm, 'member that correctly. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I would agree that Bill did have a small part in that process t
I never said a word about Havana.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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Marc Clifton wrote: if I, erm, 'member that correctly.
[Voice a'la Beavis and Butthead] Heh heh! He said member. Heh heh!
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Mr. Bill certainly had a part in it - the fun part if I recall.
However - apparently Ms. Monica was trained by her mother to take advantage of such opportunities and encouraged by Linda Tripp to save the spotted garment.
No sympathy for little Monica - she'll just have to 'swallow' her pride and get on with things.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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BillWoodruff wrote: Yahoo: "1 p.m. ET, Lewinsky had already gained 18,000 followers."
Google: "2 p.m. ET. Lewinsky had already gained another 18 lbs."
Will Rogers never met me.
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BillWoodruff wrote: coprolite
Thanks for the vocabulary lesson.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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You should see his product line of coprolite jewelry! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Now, that would be scary. But, then again, it's Halloween Time! 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Sadly, if you made a line of petrified poop jewelry and offered it online for <$10.00, you'd sell a million units your first week.
To paraphrase H. L. Mencken, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people."
Will Rogers never met me.
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