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Kamog said:
Why are croissants so crumbly? I can't eat one without dropping crumbs all over and it's embarrassing!
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It's a feature of regular croissants; non-crumbing croissants cost extra. A clever marketing ploy that.
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And why do they sound like the capital of the galactic empire that is one huge city covering the entire surface of the planet?
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Consider this city is Trantor rather than Coruscant, and this problem will dissapear. How is the "ant" of Coruscant pronounced? Is it as in a ant, or as in croissant?
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Jack Simth said:
What's 1.5 * 0?
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Jake, let's consider your problem for a while, instead of jumping to the apparently evident answer. You are speaking of an increase of 50%, ergo the number must be even: otherwise, we will end up with halves of people. Since you did not mention anything about rounding, it seems logical that only even numbers can fit in your formula.
A number is even if, when divided by 2, the result is a number like 1 or 2, without any decimal. However, 0/2 is still equal to 0, unlike all the other even numbers; ergo 0 is not even, and will not be appropriate for your formula. The lowest number that will fit is therefore 2.
Then we have 1.5 * 2 ; let's consider this new formula for a while. The 1 is obviously in strong opposition to the 5, as evidenced by the . Thus we can interpret this as 5-1=4, and we have 4 and 2. The answer is now obvious: I can pull rank on Life, the Universe and Everything. See how even maths have to abide to the Rule of the Number!
(Finding all the fallacies in the above post is left as an exercice for the reader)