When Tim heard a university had been built in Zojoji, he rode to the university and applied for the professorship of mathematics. After looking over his credentials, the university board decided to make him not only the math professor, but the president of the university. Tim was surprised, but was confident he could make the university the best in the world.

As Tim looked through the documents on the university, he noticed that none of the teachers or the students had any names! For that matter, neither did any of the board members! He invited anyone with a name to become a student, or a teacher if they are qualified. He decided the board members could remain nameless, since they wouldn't do anything important anyways.

I would like to be a student, but what courses are avaliable, maybe by corespondance as i will be going on a holiday to the new continent soon.

The only subject being tought by a professor with a name is mathematics (which includes algebra, geometry, and trigonometry). Nameless professors will teach Japanese and any foreign languages that are in demand (could include French, English, Russian, Zulu, German, Latin, the Iroquois languages (there are approximately eight of them), Hindi, Babylonian, Aztec, or Chinese). They will also teach philosophy, religion, artisanship, astronomy, biology, alchemy, medicine, and possibly some other classes. If you want to take a different class, I'll see if I can get a nameless professor to teach it.

Hydrino loves mathematics! He'd love to receive some lessons via mail, as he's sailing to the new world right now.

Benturi-Sensei, wakarimasen Nihon-go!

Excellent, Hydrino! I now have a student with a name.

Benturi-Sensei, wakarimasen Nihon-go!
OOC: I don't know if my character is supposed to understand that, but I know I don't.

Hahaha! That's exactly what I said!

After a particularly boring lecture series, Tim came up with an interesting idea. He entered his class and said, "I have decided to talk about probability next. To obtain some good examples, I'm going to Kagemusha to analyze some of the games in their casino. While I'm gone, you'll have a nameless substitute." After class, he quickly rode to Kagemusha. What Tim did not realize is that rumors about a possible gambling problem began to spread. The board decided they would have to talk about this to Tim when he returned, even though they did not believe the rumors themselves.

A half drunk Provolution came inside the lecturing hall, stumbling over some frontrow chairs before he managed to get to the podium, he leaned heavily on the pedestal table,and narrowed his floating eyes as he sized up the students spread thinly around.

"Today students, I am Provolution, your guest speaker today, and a replacement for my friend Tim Bentley who went to study game theory and applied commercial psychology relevant to probability theory, chaos theory and Corrupzione Law.
First of all, my esteemed students, I would like to talk about information transparency and decision.making with limited information under risk. Another aspect is that when some players are playing, but they do not want to play, they can fold the cards and give up. However, we at Kagemusha found that such games added too much predictability, and strategy and reasoning became all too important. How do we play a game that is pure chaos theory, and develop theories and methods handling this chaos? My discovery was that the human factor of the game, where intuition, instincts , lusts, desires, wants, needs, enviousness, arrogance and other human features in most games were omitted for the grounds of having what they call a fair game."

The students, half sleeping, was wathing him half-interested as they sighed and heaved, some of them dutifully wrote some lines with their pencil.

"But what is a fair game, anyone?" Provolution asked rhetorically.

He came back with the voice mounting in force to become a thunderous roar....

"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAIR PLAY IN THE REAL WORLD AND A FAIR GAME IS NOT HEALTHY FOR HUMAN RATIONALIZATION OF THE SITUATIONAL CONTEXT AS IT IS TOO PERFECT TO UNDERSTAND FOR THE ANIMAL SIDE OF THE HUMAN MIND".

Provolution, paused, smoothened down his tone...

"That is why we established the gambling rules around the concept of Constituzione, agreed laws of the game, Corrupzione, acceptable cheating and discrimination codes, Natural Laws like the need to get drunk, or fondled by Harlots and Babes or just pass out, which is quite natural and human and finally Rhetorical and logical laws, where the
laws of persuasion, subjugation and incitation are part of the human interaction. The Kagemusha gambling board, has in its brilliance realized all this, and that is why some of the brightest minds of Japanatica go there to gamble to face the ultimate human challenge and still have a chance to win. We even invented "Abstain" as a guiding principle for "I do not want to play with you, but would gladly kick your ass" as a vent for supressed agression. We also use revolver duels in order to vent anger, our clinical psychology practice is cheap and highly effective, and based on pure principles of natural selection. Finally, the main point is that, Constituzione Casino is probably the most thought evolving institution in this country right now, and Iurge you to take a study trip there once. I will personally see that you can apply your reasoning skills and
test out your commercial parameters for risk assessment and lust control. "

Sayonara Gakujins

Do you teach medicine at the University?

Not yet. We aren't in the industrial ages. Medicine will be tought soon, however (probably a couple of turnchats).

A class in physics is now being taught by a nameless professor.

Here follows a transcript of a letter sent from Tim to Hydrino:

Dear Hydrino,

I hope you are enjoying your time in the new world. I'm enjoying myself at the casino in Kagemusha. A new area of science called physics has been discovered. As is true with all sciences, mathematics plays a part, although I believe physics uses more math than any other science. There is one physics equation in particular I thought you might find interesting. The equation is how far a projectile (such as an arrow) will go if shot at a certain velocity and angle. I won't go through all of the derivation, but it involves finding the time it takes for the y distance to equal zero and determine how far in the x direction the projectile goes. The range equals the velocity squared times the sine of the angle doubled, divided by acceleration due to gravity. In my next letter, I intend to write to you about probability, using some examples from here in Kagemusha.

Sincerely,
Tim

When Tim arrived at the university, he was greeted by the board members. They said, "There have been some rumors about your departure to Kagemusha. They have died down as the absurdity of the rumors was realized due to your character, but we still thought you should know about them. A bigger problem, is your substitute. He came in half drunk and basically told the students they should gamble in Kagemusha."

Tim replied, "I told him not to drink before coming to class. And I didn't know he would talk about the casino. But I think it's good for the students to hear from someone other than me every once in a while."

Tim walked into his class, and the students greeted him, glad to see he was back. Tim said, "I know I said I was going to talk about probability, but a new discovery takes preference at this time. Probability will follow later. Before I continue, someone came in and told you about physics and how it relates to mathematics, correct?" The students nodded.

"Well, my colleague Gottfried Leibniz from the University of Beijing has discovered a new area of math called calculus," Tim continued, "which has many applications, many of which are not obvious.

"According to one professor, calculus is about limits, derivatives, integrals, and integrals (OOC: the latter two are referring to indefinite and definite integrals separately). So let me start by talking about limits. The limit of a function at a is a particular number L if the value of the function as it gets close to a approaches L. There is a more precise definition, but I'll get to that later. Now, to find a limit...."

Mayor Cyc came to visit Tim at the University. Cyc had wanted to come and speak with University President for some time, but this was the first chance he had. He wished to speak of concerns and plans for the University, but he also had a special request.

"Greeting, Tim. You've done a fine job with the administration of policy here at Zojoji University. We're very happy with the courses you're teaching and the progress of the students. The City is making plans for a new wing for this place of higher learning and would like your input on the matter. Please let us at City Hall know what you think of the idea.

"It was great seeing you get out and relax a bit at the Casino. I enjoyed listening to you talk and watching you test you luck at gambling both. By the way, I was wondering if I might present one of your mathematics classes with a quiz question. The class, of course, would be up to you. But I've found this question and I'd like some help with it. It is this:

"How much does a book weigh if it weighs 1 pound plus half its own weight?"

"What do you think? Would this be a suitable question for one of your classes? I might even be able to set up some sort of tuition grant or whatever to the student who first answer the question correctly."

"A new wing for the university would certainly be appreciated," Tim replied, "Especially since the number of classes we are offering is growing as scientists continue to gain new knowledge. As far as the quiz question is concerned, I'll ask it, but I think more students will answer it quickly than you might realize. I don't think a tuition grant is necessary."

Tim later wrote another letter to Hydrino:

Dear Hydrino,

Mayor Cyc has come up with a question he'd like me to ask the class you're in: "How much does a book weigh if it weighs 1 pound plus half its own weight?" Go ahead and answer that question when you write me your homework (OOC: if you respond, you don't have to worry about the homework).

Sincerely,
Tim

Mayor Cyc came to visit Tim at the University. Cyc had wanted to come and speak with University President for some time, but this was the first chance he had. He wished to speak of concerns and plans for the University, but he also had a special request.

"Greeting, Tim. You've done a fine job with the administration of policy here at Zojoji University. We're very happy with the courses you're teaching and the progress of the students. The City is making plans for a new wing for this place of higher learning and would like your input on the matter. Please let us at City Hall know what you think of the idea.

"It was great seeing you get out and relax a bit at the Casino. I enjoyed listening to you talk and watching you test you luck at gambling both. By the way, I was wondering if I might present one of your mathematics classes with a quiz question. The class, of course, would be up to you. But I've found this question and I'd like some help with it. It is this:

"How much does a book weigh if it weighs 1 pound plus half its own weight?"

"What do you think? Would this be a suitable question for one of your classes? I might even be able to set up some sort of tuition grant or whatever to the student who first answer the question correctly."

OOC: Either 2 Pounds or Infinite I think.... It matters how you look at it....

OOC: Either 2 Pounds or Infinite I think.... It matters how you look at it....
Let's assume the weight of the book is a real number.

Let's assume the weight of the book is a real number.
OOC: hmmm, Im not taking Calculus for 2 years(my junior year in HS)
For example a simple equation would be : b=1+1/2b with 'b' being the book's weight, this clearly shows the weight being 2

Mayor Cyc wonders how the class did with the question, so he wanders back over to the University to see Tim. The Professor is out of course and the secretary suggests that maybe he had gone back to the Casino (rolling her eyes). Flustered, Cyc decides to leave him a note.

Dear Professor Tim,

Sorry I missed you, I just came over for a chat. How did the question go over with your class? You're right about the difficulty, it was a little too easy, so maybe free tickets to the Zojoji Kubuki-Za Theatre would be more appropriate. I've left a pair of tickets for the student who answered the last question, a pair for you and a pair for the student who answers the next question. :D Here it is...

A footbol tournament is organized so that every participating team plays a game against every other team once and only once. If a total of 28 games are played, how many teams participated?

Check back in later,
Mayor Cyc

Mayor Cyc wonders how the class did with the question, so he wanders back over to the University to see Tim. The Professor is out of course and the secretary suggests that maybe he had gone back to the Casino (rolling her eyes). Flustered, Cyc decides to leave him a note.

Dear Professor Tim,

Sorry I missed you, I just came over for a chat. How did the question go over with your class? You're right about the difficulty, it was a little too easy, so maybe free tickets to the Zojoji Kubuki-Za Theatre would be more appropriate. I've left a pair of tickets for the student who answered the last question, a pair for you and a pair for the student who answers the next question. :D Here it is...

A footbol tournament is organized so that every participating team plays a game against every other team once and only once. If a total of 28 games are played, how many teams participated?

Check back in later,
Mayor Cyc

OOC: Its 8 teams.... I win!!! :D ;)

As Black_hole answered the question before Mayor Cyc had left the Professor's Office, the Mayor decided to take action.

"Excellent job, Black_Hole. The Professor must be under a table somewhere in the Casino... Here, take these tickets to the Theatre. These four are good for the current play of Chushin-gura or our next presentation entitled Macbeth. I can assure you, that seeing Stuck do Shakespeare is quite a treat. BTW, how did you come about that name? :) Again, good work."

As Black_hole answered the question before Mayor Cyc had left the Professor's Office, the Mayor decided to take action.

"Excellent job, Black_Hole. The Professor must be under a table somewhere in the Casino... Here, take these tickets to the Theatre. These four are good for the current play of Chushin-gura or our next presentation entitled Macbeth. I can assure you, that seeing Stuck do Shakespeare is quite a treat. BTW, how did you come about that name? :) Again, good work."
"Black_Hole, sir? Well take a look in my head :p "

Errr... oops
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Mayor Cyc peers into the back of Black_Hole's head and sure enough, there was a black crusty hole goin clean through. In fact the sunlight shown straight in and lit up his cranial cavity.

"Ah, I get it. Just because you have a hole in your head and the sun shines in, you think you're bright..."

Mayor Cyc peers into the back of Black_Hole's head and sure enough, there was a black crusty hole goin clean through. In fact the sunlight shown straight in and lit up his cranial cavity.

"Ah, I get it. Just because you have a hole in your head and the sun shines in, you think you're bright..."
OOC: :lol:
I am the first to get the questions so maby i really am ;)

OOC: :lol:
I am the first to get the questions so maby i really am ;)
Just because my only student with a name hasn't replied? The professor knows the answer, of course, but wouldn't give the answer away before the students have a chance.

Mayor Cyc smiles, "Well, these aren't terribly difficult questions, but I find them interesting. Just a little quiz with coffee to clear the mind. I do have a problem with Black_Hole's last answer though, and that is he didn't show his work in finding the anser. ;) We don't want guesses here. Prove your work, please. The next question is:

In a certain family each child has at least 5 brothers and 4 sisters. What is the smallest number of children the family can have?

Mayor Cyc smiles, "Well, these aren't terribly difficult questions, but I find them interesting. Just a little quiz with coffee to clear the mind. I do have a problem with Black_Hole's last answer though, and that is he didn't show his work in finding the anser. ;) We don't want guesses here. Prove your work, please. The next question is:

In a certain family each child has at least 5 brothers and 4 sisters. What is the smallest number of children the family can have?
11 childeren is the least you can share(hopefully do ;)) siblings, also you can get eleven instead of 10 because for example: a guy has 5 brothers and 4 sisters, but how can a girl also have 5 brothers and 4 sisters, as the brother has 4 sisters which includes the girl

the other one was guess and check, i started out with 7 and found it gave 21, then each number more it going to add the number before it

Tim said, "Black_hole got the correct answers to all questions, but let me tell you a more mathematical proof for the latter two.

"When each team plays each other team once, 28 games are played. You can add one team at a time, adding the number of other teams already added. That would total 0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28. That comes to a total of 8 teams. The other way would be to start by multiplying the games by 2, resulting in 56, which equals 7x8. There are therefore eight teams because all teams play the other seven teams, so you multiply seven and eight, then you divide by 2 to get the number of games since each game was counted twice.

"Black_hole's logic for the third question was correct, but here is another way to prove it algebraically. If X = the number of boys and Y = the number of girls, there are X + Y children in all. Since every boy must have 5 brothers and every girl must have 4 sisters, X-1>=5 and Y-1>=4 (the equations for boys having 4 sisters and girls having 5 brothers are less restrictive, so I'll ignore them for simplicity). Therefore, X>=6 and Y>=5. Since we want to minimize X+Y, X is 6 and Y is 5, so the answer is 11."

Nice, Professor. That's the kind of pencil work I like to see. THAT'S the reason for the questions. Thank you.

I will return with another soon.

So Mayor Cyc once again shows up at Professor Tim's door, this time with a piece of paper in his hand. "Beautiful day out there, isn't it? Here's the next question I promised you. A bit different from the rest, but the same in nature", says the Mayor as he hands Tim the note. "Enjoy, gotta run." Cyc continues with a brief salute, then turns on his heel and exits through the same door he came in by.

Professor Tim, who hadn't the opportunity to even say "Hello" opened the note and read it aloud,

"The Mayor says Black_Hole is lying, Black_Hole says Tim is lying, Tim accuses both of them of lying.
Who is telling the truth?"

So Mayor Cyc once again shows up at Professor Tim's door, this time with a piece of paper in his hand. "Beautiful day out there, isn't it? Here's the next question I promised you. A bit different from the rest, but the same in nature", says the Mayor as he hands Tim the note. "Enjoy, gotta run." Cyc continues with a brief salute, then turns on his heel and exits through the same door he came in by.

Professor Tim, who hadn't the opportunity to even say "Hello" opened the note and read it aloud,

"The Mayor says Black_Hole is lying, Black_Hole says Tim is lying, Tim accuses both of them of lying.
Who is telling the truth?"
quite simple, dont you have anything to challenge me? j/k :p
I am telling the truth
Because if I am telling the truth then Tim is lying, and that means that both me and cyc cant be lying(but one of us can, and tims statement will still be false), which means cyc is lying about me lying

quite simple, dont you have anything to challenge me? j/k :p
I am telling the truth
Because if I am telling the truth then Tim is lying, and that means that both me and cyc cant be lying(but one of us can, and tims statement will still be false), which means cyc is lying about me lying
Ahhh. You want challenging, heh? Let's see...

Which can first? The chicken or the egg?

Remember, we don't want any superstitious mumbo-jumbo or pretentious riga-ma-roll here. Keep it Scientific and/or Mathematical and prove your work. If you get this one right, I'll believe your bright. But I'll be the judge of your answer, not you. ;) I'm not lyin'.

Ahhh. You want challenging, heh? Let's see...

Which can first? The chicken or the egg?

Remember, we don't want any superstitious mumbo-jumbo or pretentious riga-ma-roll here. Keep it Scientific and/or Mathematical and prove your work. If you get this one right, I'll believe your bright. But I'll be the judge of your answer, not you. ;) I'm not lyin'.
well sir i dont understand your question
Which can first? The chicken or the egg?
;)

The answer:
The chicken came first, because eggs require a mother hen to warm them until they hatch. Without that warmth they won't begin their life.

>=Low gutteral Horn noise=< Wrong answer. According to you, the chicken would have needed a mother hen to begin it's life. Sorry. I'm also sorry I mis-typed the word
"came". ;) Thanks for going forward with the question.

Next question. What religion is President George W. Bush?

>=Low gutteral Horn noise=< Wrong answer. According to you, the chicken would have needed a mother hen to begin it's life. Sorry. I'm also sorry I mis-typed the word
"came". ;) Thanks for going forward with the question.

Next question. What religion is President George W. Bush?
Catholic
*senses a setup to bush bashing*

Also the chicken wouldnt have needed a mother hen to start its life, lets start at the beginning of time.
We have 2 choses, we start off with a chicken on earth or we start off with an egg on earth
If we started off with a chicken they voalla!
But if we had an egg it would need to be warmed and wouldnt live, thus turning into someones food.

edit: wait, i think its a trick question, it should be what religion does he practice, not what religion he is
you fail grammar class ;) or mayb you did it on purpose...
but dubyah isnt a religion if that was what u intended

Hmmm, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, I believe the gods would have created the chicken first, actually more than one. It wouldn't make sense for them to make the egg. So the answer would be the chicken. (OOC: I don't know much about Japan relating to religion and creation. This probably would have been "scientific" enough in Europe.)

As for your second question, I don't know who you're talking about. I don't know anyone named George W. Bush. The name sounds European, so I would have to guess Christian. Although that would be rather stereotypical of me.

Hmmm, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, I believe the gods would have created the chicken first, actually more than one. It wouldn't make sense for them to make the egg. So the answer would be the chicken. (OOC: I don't know much about Japan relating to religion and creation. This probably would have been "scientific" enough in Europe.)

As for your second question, I don't know who you're talking about. I don't know anyone named George W. Bush. The name sounds European, so I would have to guess Christian. Although that would be rather stereotypical of me.
so your from illinois and dont known who george w bush is?
only the greatest president of all time!(minus about 7 presidents that were better than him ;) )

so your from illinois and dont known who george w bush is?
only the greatest president of all time!(minus about 7 presidents that were better than him ;) )
I am not from Illinois, that sounds like an Iroquois name or something. The only presidents I know of are myself and the leaders of the other countries, and none of them are named George W. Bush. About 7 presidents were better than him? Does that include me? ;)

Edit: double post

"Yes, it includes you Tim. It also includes Black_Hole, President of the G.W. Bush Fan Club. And it was a trick question, G.W. Bush is not a religion (ever since he was kicked out of Waco...). Just like the first question was a trick question. Books don't weigh, scales do. But we gave it to BH anyway. I'll give him this one too, as I didn't know the answer...

I'll see if I can come up with a truly difficult question for you. ;)

"Yes, it includes you Tim. It also includes Black_Hole, President of the G.W. Bush Fan Club. And it was a trick question, G.W. Bush is not a religion (ever since he was kicked out of Waco...). Just like the first question was a trick question. Books don't weigh, scales do. But we gave it to BH anyway. I'll give him this one too, as I didn't know the answer...

I'll see if I can come up with a truly difficult question for you. ;)
I caught the trick question on this one, but not the book one....
If you ever wanna join the club, just call me ;)

This is the written "in character" history of how the Coal at Hill Valley was discovered and how the Steam Engine was developed at Zojoji. Written in book form, no character development. I would like for the Science Ministry, or if they don't want to do it University Provost Tim, to post the "announcement of their findings" regarding the new ore in 1265 AD, as well as the invention of the Steam Engine.

----

When Sir Donald became Shogun in 1180 AD, He made a census of all Workers and Slaves, and called the foreign slaves to work in teams of the same nationality.

Sir Donald also created a Worker plan designed for quick and systematic job completion. The details of this plan were that teams would be grouped to however many people it would take to construct a mine in 5 years.

Foreign workers toiled more slowly than the natural borns who were paid. Even so, there were enough Roman Slaves so that the conditions for a Team could be satisfied among them.

Therefore, Shogun Donald gathered these at a riverside West of the town of Hill Valley, formerly Hlobane. It was in his thought to construct a road from Hill Valley to Osgiliath, and develop the land nearby. This he thus tasked to these slaves.

As the slaves toiled in building the mine, they noticed that the ore of this hill was unlike that or normal ores, or even the iron ore of Zojoji and Manchai. It was black and crumbled more easily than other ores.

Minister Civman 2004 was intirgued by these ores, and had samples sent to the Nameless Scientific Assistants at the University of Zojoji for futher study.

Though the rock would gain a scientific name later, its original and comman name was "coal", which was part of the Roman word for "Union", for it was at that hill that the Roman Slaves were brought together as a full team.

Mayor Cyc once again came to visit Tim, but this time he had a question of a different nature.

"Good day, Tim. I hope everything is going well here at the University. I've heard the new wing is almost complete and the student are ready to occupy it. I'm glad to see the U of Z has chosen to open it's School of Creative Arts. We have long needed a center for Performing and Visual Arts, it's an area I believe we need to focus on. Which brings me to the reason of my visit today.

I've been in communication with former President Furiey as she's going to be relocating to our beautiful city. As Furiey has a wealth of knowledge and talent in Visual Arts - she's an accomplished artist herself, I was hoping she could could Chair or be the Administator for the Department. As a former President and Vice President, she has the administrative skills to run the Department, plus I believe she could be our Artist-in-Residence with a title of Professor. I think she would make a great addition to the Faculty as well.

Please let me know what your thoughts are on this matter, I'll be waiting to hear from you. But right now, I have to go handle a property transaction. Later...

Tim went to the board and said, "Mayor Cyc has informed me a candidate for the chair of the Department of Creative Arts, which would include a professorship as well. Her name is Furiey."

Furiey went in to have an interview with the board. Once she left, the board unanimously agreed that Furiey should get the job. Tim said, "As if her skills and knowledge weren't enough, she also has a name. It will be nice to have a fellow faculty member who has a name." Tim started to write Furiey that she was hired, and planned to speak to Cyc about it soon.

Tim was sitting in his office when a messenger brought a letter. It read: Dear Tim, President of Zojoji University,

After completing my research on the Galapagos Islands, I have written a book called On the Origin of Species. It discusses how, by natural selection, certain races are preserved, while other races die out. I would like to discuss this in more detail with your biology professor.

Sincerely,
Charles Darwin, M.A.
Tim called the messenger back in, and told him to take the letter to the nameless biology professor.