OT drinking games

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" <quigonginger at y...> wrote:
> 
> > > "Pow" for perfect squares
> > > "Zap" for powers of two
> 
> Ginger asks:  I'm sorry, but I understand perfect squares to be like 
> 4,9,16,25.  Am I right?  If so, what are powers of two?  I had thought 
> that would mean the same thing, but I'm obviously wrong.  Could someone 
> explain?
> 
> Ginger, who majored in music/psych, and played Fuzzy Duck as a drinking 
> game.


No  sweat, you've got your digits switched round, that's all.

Squares are any number n to the power 2,
i.e. 5, 8, 13, etc. to the power 2.
Powers of two are 2 to the power of any number n,
i.e. 2 to the power 5, 7, 23, etc.

But I could be on the receiving end of a mathematical thunderbolt as a
sign of the displeasure of the gods any time soon.

Kneasy