Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department - Revision history

Ch4zm: /* The Chuck Wagon */

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The Chuck Wagon

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	As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)		As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)

	In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed [[The Chuck Wagon]]. (As a general rule, the reason for this nickname is not discussed, but it has to do with what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.)		In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed "The Chuck Wagon". (As a general rule, the reason for this nickname is not discussed, but it has to do with what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.)


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Ch4zm: /* Chuck Wagon */

2022-02-21T19:13:46Z

Chuck Wagon

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	Rules are taken very seriously in the Mathematics Department, and the first rule of the Mathematics Department is that no one is ever allowed to write a decimal number. In one notable incident, a group of mathematicians were banished for life from the collective when they were caught sharing volumes of tables of physical properties of steam - hundreds of pages of tables filled with decimal numbers. The Mathematics Department sealed the books in a lead-lined container, buried them deep in the desert (they weren't sure how deep, but it could surely be represented by using an integer larger than 10), and placed permanent, passive markers capable of surviving extreme desert climates for hundreds of years, with the purpose of warning future generations of the extremely noxious material buried beneath.		Rules are taken very seriously in the Mathematics Department, and the first rule of the Mathematics Department is that no one is ever allowed to write a decimal number. In one notable incident, a group of mathematicians were banished for life from the collective when they were caught sharing volumes of tables of physical properties of steam - hundreds of pages of tables filled with decimal numbers. The Mathematics Department sealed the books in a lead-lined container, buried them deep in the desert (they weren't sure how deep, but it could surely be represented by using an integer larger than 10), and placed permanent, passive markers capable of surviving extreme desert climates for hundreds of years, with the purpose of warning future generations of the extremely noxious material buried beneath.

	==Chuck Wagon==		==The Chuck Wagon==

	As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)		As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)

	In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed ~~The~~ [[Chuck Wagon]]. (As a general rule, the reason for this nickname is not discussed, but it has to do with what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.)		In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed [[The Chuck Wagon]]. (As a general rule, the reason for this nickname is not discussed, but it has to do with what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.)


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Ch4zm: /* Chuck Wagon */

2022-02-21T19:13:25Z

Chuck Wagon

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	As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)		As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)

	In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed The [[Chuck Wagon]] ~~because of~~ what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.		In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed The [[Chuck Wagon]]. (As a general rule, the reason for this nickname is not discussed, but it has to do with what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.)


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Ch4zm: /* Chuck Wagon */

2022-02-21T19:11:57Z

Chuck Wagon

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	==Chuck Wagon==		==Chuck Wagon==

	As a result of their refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, ~~calculating~~ water ~~or food consumption, making purchases~~, or managing finances. In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish, the Hellmouth Community College sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed [[~~The~~ Chuck Wagon]].		As a result of their absolute refusal to use mathematics to do practical things in the real world, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, figuring out how much water is needed to stay alive, or managing finances. (And you can forget about the basic social interactions required for monetary purchases; collective members require weeks to recover from any social interaction.)

			In order to ensure the well-being of the Mathematics Department and make sure the collective doesn't perish in the desert, the [[Hellmouth Community College]] sends a weekly delivery of food and water to the Mathematics Department. This weekly delivery is nicknamed The [[Chuck Wagon]] because of what happened the last time the deliveries stopped.


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Ch4zm: /* Membership */

2022-02-21T19:07:56Z

Membership

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	==Membership==		==Membership==

	The Mathematics Department is an elite collective of research mathematicians - mainly number theorists, although occasionally mathematicians from other branches are invited to join the collective. Within the Mathematics Department, mathematics with no practical purpose is the most highly prized. The Mathematics Department discourages its members from attempting to find practical applications for the mathematics they research. There are no applied mathematicians, computational mathematicians, or engineering mathematicians in the Mathematics Department collective.		The Mathematics Department is an elite collective of research mathematicians - mainly number theorists, although occasionally mathematicians from other branches (topology, functional analysis, etc.) are invited to join the collective. Within the Mathematics Department, mathematics with no practical purpose is the most highly prized. The Mathematics Department discourages its members from attempting to find practical applications for the mathematics they research. There are no applied mathematicians, computational mathematicians, or engineering mathematicians in the Mathematics Department collective.

	==Rules==		==Rules==

Ch4zm at 19:06, 21 February 2022

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	The '''Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department''' is a nomadic collective of research mathematicians who live autonomously in vehicles in the vast desert surrounding the Hellmouth. They prefer their full title, "Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department," to the shorter "Mathematics Department," but will accept either. However, under no circumstances should they ever be referred to as the "Math Department." If you do, they will show up outside of your home and harangue you with advanced mathematics.		The '''Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department''' is a nomadic collective of research mathematicians who live autonomously in vehicles in the vast desert surrounding the Hellmouth. They prefer their full title, "Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department," to the shorter "Mathematics Department," but will accept either. However, under no circumstances should they ever be referred to as the "Math Department." If you do, they will show up outside of your home and harangue you with advanced mathematics.

			Despite their extreme isolation, the Mathematics Department fosters many flourishing collaborations with other academic research institutions. The collective does not communicate directly with outside entities; rather, the collective employs a "fixer" lawyer, who makes visits to various institutions and persons on behalf of their client.

			[[Image:HCC_MathematicsDepartment.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|An aerial view of the Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department.]]

	==Membership==		==Membership==

Ch4zm at 18:44, 21 February 2022

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 The '''Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department''' is a nomadic collective of research mathematicians who live autonomously in vehicles in the vast desert surrounding the Hellmouth. They prefer their full title, "Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department," to the shorter "Mathematics Department," but will accept either. However, under no circumstances should they ever be referred to as the "Math Department." If you do, they will show up outside of your home and harangue you with advanced mathematics.
-The Mathematics Department consists primarily of number theorists, although occasionally mathematicians from other branches are invited to join the collective. The Mathematics Department shuns any practical applications of mathematics - the fewer applications that a branch of mathematics has, the more highly prized it is. As a result, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, determining water or food consumption rates, or managing personal finances.
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 Rules are taken very seriously in the Mathematics Department, and the first rule of the Mathematics Department is that no one is ever allowed to write a decimal number. In one notable incident, a group of mathematicians were banished for life from the collective when they were caught sharing volumes of tables of physical properties of steam - hundreds of pages of tables filled with decimal numbers. The Mathematics Department sealed the books in a lead-lined container, buried them deep in the desert (they weren't sure how deep, but it could surely be represented by using an integer larger than 10), and placed permanent, passive markers capable of surviving extreme desert climates for hundreds of years, with the purpose of warning future generations of the extremely noxious material buried beneath.

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The '''Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department''' is a nomadic collective of research mathematicians who live autonomously in vehicles in the vast desert surrounding the Hellmouth. They prefer their full title, "Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department," to the shorter "Mathematics Department," but will accept either. However, under no circumstances should they ever be referred to as the "Math Department." If you do, they will show up outside of your home and harangue you with advanced mathematics.

The Mathematics Department consists primarily of number theorists, although occasionally mathematicians from other branches are invited to join the collective. The Mathematics Department shuns any practical applications of mathematics - the fewer applications that a branch of mathematics has, the more highly prized it is. As a result, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, determining water or food consumption rates, or managing personal finances.

Rules are taken very seriously in the Mathematics Department, and the first rule of the Mathematics Department is that no one is ever allowed to write a decimal number. In one notable incident, a group of mathematicians were banished for life from the collective when they were caught sharing volumes of tables of physical properties of steam - hundreds of pages of tables filled with decimal numbers. The Mathematics Department sealed the books in a lead-lined container, buried them deep in the desert (they weren't sure how deep, but it could surely be represented by using an integer larger than 10), and placed permanent, passive markers capable of surviving extreme desert climates for hundreds of years, with the purpose of warning future generations of the extremely noxious material buried beneath.