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Or squaring.

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Which is multiplying.

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Which techincally could be a form of addition.

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It only resembles addition. It is in fact grouping by a *determinant.

* Word made up on the spot by me. I dunno if it's actually a word.

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Determinant is a mathematical term, but it is used with matrices, not multiplication.

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The other number in a multiplication determines how many groups there are, and wether it is positive or negative interacts with wether the other number is positive or negative to determine wether the answer is positive or negative.

'Determinant' fits until someone tells me a better word.

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Technically, the numbers in a multiplication operation are 'multiplicand' and 'multiplier'.

And also technically, a determinant involves multiplication (the summation of 2n products of n terms, with n of those products being added, and n being subtracted, in a matrix of n by n terms; determinant is only meaningful in a square matrix).

And finally, back on topic. I tend to like it when the days get shorter, because it's cooler outside, and I don't feel like I need to be urgently doing something as much when it's dark. It gives me more time to relax, which I think is a good thing. Maybe I'll begin thinking differently when I'm not a full-time student with two part-time jobs.

--edit: spelling mistake.

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Oddly I like the rain too, but I think its the change from sunny long days to rainy dark ones that triggers the mood swing toward feeling blue. At least the coast was semi-nice last sunday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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It's raining more and more now. The last few days it's wet and dark when I leave my house to go to work. I pass a school on the way and teachers on strike are standing around in the rain.

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I noticed too that we didn't get our Indian Summer this time. Oops I mean "our indigenous population post autumnal equinox." Usually it's very nice in October and it slowly get colder and cloudier right up to the predictable drizzly cold Halloween. Time for another shot of Jaegger and a bottle of Spaaten. Only 63 more days and and the days will get longer again.

I guess you wouldn't like my plan for the metric 10 hour day!