16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
2:51 p.m.
The problem must have been in the I/O unit, rather than the calculating unit. At 01:06 PM 9/16/2009, Hans Havermann wrote:
This one is about Nicole de Boer (as math student "Leaven") determining primes in the 1997 sci-fi horror-thriller "Cube"...
"Uh. OK. Um. Six forty-five." There is a two second pause during which Leaven moves her lips slightly and blinks - apparently calculating.
"That's not prime."
"Three seventy-two." There is a one-and-a-half second pause. "No."
"Six-four-nine." Another two second pause. "Right. Eleven times fifty- nine."