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maplestory
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kwabon
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fark sorry, by the time i wrote the first letter of my question, i figured what i did wrong and i stupidly clicked enter, and was like, "oh fark".
epic fail thread by me, mods please delete, unless bosers want to do some shit here.
epic fail thread by me, mods please delete, unless bosers want to do some shit here.
maplestory
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duh
Aquawhite
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ah, this is going to transfer into the most epic thread on BoS... der... -_-
and clearly the answer was x^2.y+z not xyz... farrout.
and clearly the answer was x^2.y+z not xyz... farrout.
kaz1
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Epic question, only has one letter.
Aquawhite
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Hey, this is a really hard question. Don't think it's that easy to solve! lmao.
Aquawhite
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indeed.W?
Wow... that's quite profound. Do you study philosophy?
Dragonmaster262
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You can delete it yourself with thread tools.fark sorry, by the time i wrote the first letter of my question, i figured what i did wrong and i stupidly clicked enter, and was like, "oh fark".
epic fail thread by me, mods please delete, unless bosers want to do some shit here.
kwabon
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naaah, thread seems like fun.
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Clearly,
w = v + v
Thus, the answer is 2v
w = v + v
Thus, the answer is 2v
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I guess it depends on your construction of w
if w = v x v
then,
w = vv
Thus,
w = v^2
is correct.
if w = v x v
then,
w = vv
Thus,
w = v^2
is correct.
kaz1
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I always wondered why English speaking people don't call w "double v" as it looks more like two v's rather than two u's.I guess it depends on your construction of w
if w = v x v
then,
w = vv
Thus,
w = v^2
is correct.
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It has to do with the vowel sounds. With the development of latin, v did not represent the appropriate tone of the sound. Or something like that. I'm sure you could wikipedia it to find a better definition.
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"The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this <uu> digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (Ƿ), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an "n" whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive "v" (compare the shape of ƕ).
The sounds /w/ (spelled with U/V) and /b/ (spelled B) of Classical Latin developed into a bilabial fricative /β/ between vowels, in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore, V no longer represented adequately the labial-velar approximant sound /w/ of Old High German. In later German, this phoneme /w/ became /v/; this is why German W represents that sound. In Dutch, it became a labiodental approximant /ʋ/ (with the exception of words with EEUW, which have /eːβ/), or other diphthongs containing -uw. However, in many Dutch speaking areas, such as Flanders and Suriname the /β/ pronunciation is used at all times.
The ancient Phoenician letter shin had a W shape; the sounds and histories of the two letters, however, are entirely unrelated—shin represented /ʃ/ or /s/, and developed into the Latin alphabet S."
... the correct answer according to wikipedia
"The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this <uu> digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (Ƿ), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an "n" whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive "v" (compare the shape of ƕ).
The sounds /w/ (spelled with U/V) and /b/ (spelled B) of Classical Latin developed into a bilabial fricative /β/ between vowels, in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore, V no longer represented adequately the labial-velar approximant sound /w/ of Old High German. In later German, this phoneme /w/ became /v/; this is why German W represents that sound. In Dutch, it became a labiodental approximant /ʋ/ (with the exception of words with EEUW, which have /eːβ/), or other diphthongs containing -uw. However, in many Dutch speaking areas, such as Flanders and Suriname the /β/ pronunciation is used at all times.
The ancient Phoenician letter shin had a W shape; the sounds and histories of the two letters, however, are entirely unrelated—shin represented /ʃ/ or /s/, and developed into the Latin alphabet S."
... the correct answer according to wikipedia
