Saturday, November 27, 2010
UNFORTUNATELY ...
Authors: Prerna, Subikka, Pankti, Jharna, Priyanka
There is this guy.He goes to a bar that's on the tenth floor of a hotel. He sits down and has a couple of drinks, then stands up, announces loudly that he has had enough, and goes over and jumps out the window. Now, there are two men who are sitting at a window table, and having that natural human curiosity about what this fellow is going to do, watch as this man jumps.
However, just as he is about to hit the ground, he rights himself, pulls his feet underneath himself,and lands gracefully. He then turns and comes back into the building. The two men who were watching this are so amazed. The guy comes back into the bar, orders a few drinks, then repeats the process. The two men at the window seat are stunned!! When the guy returns and repeats the procedure AGAIN, the two men stop him before he jumps and ask him how on earth he does that. He replies "It's simple, really. There's an air vent down by the ground, and if you catch the updraft, you can right yourself and land on the ground with no problems." Then he proceeded to jump out the window again. Well, these two men decided that they just HAD to try this, so they jumped out the window, and splat!UNFORTUNATELY they couldn't feel the airvent or catch the updraft and made a mess hitting all over the ground.They DIED.
Meanwhile, the first guy has made it back up to the bar. When he sits down to order his drinks, the bartender says "Superman, you can be a real when you're drunk!"
Friday, November 26, 2010
Random Numbers
Book Review: By Aditya Gopalakrishnan
Book: Art of Computer Programming: Donald E Knuth
Random numbers are actually nothing but pseudo random numbers i.e. a sequence of numbers in which any particular number does not have any correlation with its predecessor. However, a machine being capable of executing only finite sequence of operations, can never generate truly random numbers.
They have a huge number of applications - from lotteries to casinoes to helping executives make decisions.
There are many ways of generating random numbers - e.g. by squaring an n digit number and then taking the next number as its middle n digits. E.g. 35^2 = 1225, thus the next number is 22. Then, 22^2 is 484, thus the next number is 48. 48^2 is 2304, so the next number is 30 giving the sequence
35,22,48,30,90,......
This, though not the best is still quite a random looking sequence.
2 questions which I wanted to ask which the book prompts are :
Q.1. If there are a sequence of a million digits, what are the chances that all occur exactly 100000 times? Further, what is it that a sequence should have for you to consider it truly random?
Q.2. What is the successor of 10101010 by the middle square method? And it's successor?
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Love ... Never Ending
Authors: Sharath
There lived a very naughty boy in a village he never followed any rules set by his parents or villagers. Everyone complained against the boy. Years passed this way. After few years the boy fell in love with a girl. His view towards the life changed completely. He grew responsible. Everyone started appreciating him. For his love to be successful he had to be successful so he moved to a city and started putting lots of efforts in his work. His hard work got him success. The boy then returned to his village as a successful man only to see his love married.
THE GIRL RETURNS
Authors: Rosel,Mamatha,Riya,Supraja,Mathangi,Princy
Well frankly speaking this is a story of a little girl Ann who lives in her own world who dreams a lot and the she believes in destiny also she lived in a city where she spent most of the time with her friend and loved the city where she was staying. She was an orphan but she was blessed with uncle and aunt who loved her a lot. Due to some circumstances and financial problems they had to leave the city.
Though the young girl had travelled long and stayed for many months in a new city she couldn’t forget her old friends and the old city where she stayed once a upon a time. Her friend was none other than the little princess of that old city where Ann lived once a upon a time. Ann couldn’t sleep because she used feel that her friend is in trouble and whenever she closes her eyes she used to come across herself and her friend and the city where she lived.
Looking at the child, uncle and aunt decided to take her to a specialist who can cure her problem of not sleeping at night. Ann infact tried cooperating with the doctor to get rid of all her problems she goes on telling her story and those days with her friend and also about the key which believes that her friend had dropped it in night in her dreams but really found it in the morning this made her think that there is something happening in the city where she previously lived.
Ann’s aunt decided to live her in the hospital under the Doctor’s control the Doctor too promised that he will cure the girl by his new electronic therapy. He and his assistant locked the little girl in the room. There came a magical girl who helped Ann to get out of that hospital. Both the girl and Ann tried to escape but soon the Doctor and her assistant found them by then they jumped into a pond the magical girl was drowned but Ann was alive. She opened her eyes she found her hen name Hegeldy Pegeldy who could speak like us both crossed the pond and where walking she realized that this was the same city where she lived had now turned into rock and stones all the living things where transformed into nonliving thing. She was unhappy about this she went inside the city she found many unique things then she entered into a Palace where she found a lady she asked her for help to get back her city to the normal state the lady promised her and took her to a room where she had cut the heads of all the people who had come in search of her. Ann was scared; the lady told Ann that she’s got to leave here for few days if she requires her help Ann agreed for it. She was again locked in a room by the lady. The lady was known other that an evil who had locked other two people in that room Ann with great difficulty tries to escape from that room with her new friend she is successful in doing that she has a magical lamp with her where she travels in a magical vehicle which can fly over the sky but due to bad wind the magical vehicle lands down there she finds a stone man who can speak he tells her that he will help her in bringing back the city to the normal state and infact send her home if she finds a person who stole his ornament who is now turned into an ornament now. She is got to guess only thrice if she guesses wrong she will be turned into an ornament. All her friends guesses it wrong and turns to an ornament but she guesses right and finds the person, the person whom she found was none other than the ruler of the city where she lived previously. She gets back all her friends by making a right guess.
The stone man got to know that the little girl guessed it right so he destroys everything and tries to break his promise he tries to eat all her friends but one among them was Hegeldy Pegeldy she lays a egg which falls in his month unfortunately. The egg is equal to poison for the stone man he dies due to it the stone man will be wearing a Ruby slipper which shines and is a magical shoe which can turn to be magical Ann finds it and she wears it. She gets back the city to the normal state how it was previously and the entire city respects her and treats her in a dignified manner. Then she is to be crowned as a little princess of the city but she finds the magical girl who saved her from the Doctor whom she thought that she was drowned. But the magical girl is been enchanted into a mirror by her step mother. She finds the magical girl finally and thanks her for her rescue and tells her that she want to return home. Then Ann gets to know that the magical girl is none other than the princess of that city. The magical girl gives her a key to return to the city whenever she wishes Ann hands over the magical shoe to the princess and with the help of it every one disappears.
When Ann opens her eyes she finds herself in the new city where her aunt and uncle and her little dog is waiting for her and there she sees that the Doctor and assistant have been arrested for making people insane who ever came for help.
Here ends the story the Girl Returns home after a long time of her magical journey.
The Story writer’s where inspired by the famous Novel called The Wonderful Land of Oz.
OOPS
Authors:Jino George , Andrew Pereira , Rinson Thannikal , Bopalan , Sumer Singh , Mark Godfrey
There was once a couple who lived in Taverepalya.They had a happy married life. Rodger had worked all of his life and had saved most of his money for potential rainy days in the future. He was a really stingy when it came to his money or anything to do with it. He loved money more than just about anything. He came to know that he had been suffering from cancer which he had neglected and it was in its final stages. This brought great sorrow to the both of them. Just before he died, he asked to his wife to bury him in a casket along with all the money he had saved till then. His last words were, “I want to take my money with me to the afterlife."
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket; the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest friend. When they finished the funeral ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!” She had a box with her, which she came over with, and placed in the casket.
Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. After the burial and departure of all friends and family, her closest friend came up to her and asked, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in the casket with him."
She said, "Yes, I promised, I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him." The friend turned to her in shock and awe wondering how she could have done such a silly and stupid thing.
"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"
"Sure I did, " said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check."


