The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXII

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Again, Schnitzel just means cutlet. There are many varieties of Schnitzel. Another good one is Schnitzel Holstein which is served with a fried egg and capers, or Jägerschnitzel which is apparently served with Jagdwurst and Tomato sauce.

Incidentally, the German page is about a hundred times better than the English page.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzel#Schnitzelgerichte

Mmmm capers.

Also: oh, look, another use for capers outside of a Piccata pasta dish!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Ok so I have a question: Our lease ends on May 31st and we are looking at an apartment that comes available on June 1; is it typical for your current landlord to give you the day after your lease ends to move out?

Our current landlord also does not ever let anyone move in on the first day of their lease - we couldn't move in until June 3rd or 4th even though the lease began on June 1. They won't let you move in because they say they clean and repait the unit during those few days (and give themselves a week to do this in your lease agreement).

Does this make a difference? I would hate to have to pay to move everything to storage for a day and then pay to have it moved to the new flat while also paying for a night at a hotel.

 

[Farm Boy]

Ok so I have a question: Our lease ends on May 31st and we are looking at an apartment that comes available on June 1; is it typical for your current landlord to give you the day after your lease ends to move out?

Our current landlord also does not ever let anyone move in on the first day of their lease - we couldn't move in until June 3rd or 4th even though the lease began on June 1. They won't let you move in because they say they clean and repait the unit during those few days (and give themselves a week to do this in your lease agreement).

Does this make a difference? I would hate to have to pay to move everything to storage for a day and then pay to have it moved to the new flat while also paying for a night at a hotel.

Depends on the move in day, but I am pretty sure I would not count on being able to leave your stuff in the apartment after your lease runs out. You probably need to be vacated and totally out when the lease expires. You might have more flexibility with where you are going to be starting to rent. Perhaps the apartment is already empty rather than being hotboxed, perhaps the new landlord will be a little more accommodating seeing as you are starting a business relationship rather than ending one.

 

[sophie]

That sounds like something you should probably ask your landlord about.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Kind of what I thought, plus I expect absolutely no grace of any kind from my current realtor - they are total dickheads. Thanks Farm Boy!

@Owen - I plan on asking both old and new landlords, but I wanted to know if I was wasting my time even bringing it up first. + Postcount
I am sure you understand.

 

[Farm Boy]

Kind of what I thought, plus I expect absolutely no grace of any kind from my current realtor - they are total dickheads. Thanks Farm Boy!

@Owen - I plan on asking both old and new landlords, but I wanted to know if I was wasting my time even bringing it up first. + Postcount
I am sure you understand.

Well, keep in mind even if they aren't keen on it at first go, maybe they can do a pro-rated day or week of rent as an option.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What does "recursively" mean? The dictionary says "Of or relating to a recursion" which isnt too helpful when recursion isn't in the dictionary.

 

[Arakhor]

Use Wikipedia or Wiktionary (basically: the internet). You should be able to find what you need there.

 

[Flying Pig]

Alternatively, look up 'recursion'.

 

[madviking]

Alternatively, look up 'recursion'.

Googling works best.

 

[dutchfire]

Example:

In maths, 5! (5 factorial) means 5*4*3*2*1=120
You can define n! as:
n! is the product of all positive integers smaller or equal to n.
or as:
n! = n*(n-1)! (so 5! = 5*4!=5*4*3!=5*4*3*2!=5*4*3*2*1!=5*4*3*2*1)

The second definition is a recursive definition.

 

[Flying Pig]

Yes, but some of us feel better teaching people to work without the internet: book-research was good enough for Johnson, Kant and Taylor, so it's good enough for us!

 

[Borachio]

Example:

In maths, 5! (5 factorial) means 5*4*3*2*1=120
You can define n! as:
n! is the product of all positive integers smaller or equal to n.
or as:
n! = n*(n-1)! (so 5! = 5*4!=5*4*3!=5*4*3*2!=5*4*3*2*1!=5*4*3*2*1)

The second definition is a recursive definition.

Assuming 0! = 1. Which it does, by definition. Although it's always seemed rather odd to me.

 

[dutchfire]

It isn't weird. It is the only way to make sure formulas keep working.

(And where I said positive, you might read strictly positive, then it is certainly okay)

 

[Disgustipated]

Not sure if this has been asked, but the past few days I keep seeing references to the Harlem Shake. What is it? And should I be worried?

 

[Borachio]

Oh, I know why it's done well enough. It's just really strange, to me, that you can take the same operator, !, apply it to two different numbers 0 and 1, and get the same answer.

And yes, in your example above you could have defined it for n>1, and that would have avoided the problem.

For other formulae involving factorial, though, we still need 0! to be equal to 1.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Well, keep in mind even if they aren't keen on it at first go, maybe they can do a pro-rated day or week of rent as an option.

OK, I'll see if I can do that.

Here's another question:

Say my current lease is up May 31 and to get a good apartment, I decide to sign a new lease on a second place on April 15th, so I'm paying on two places at once. Now a year rolls around from April 15th, but I don't graduate until June 1st. Is it possible (or common) for a landlord to continue renting to me for until June 1st even if I'm past the lease? Or do they just typically try and find someone else to sign for a year beginning April 16th and EFF U David Hobbs?

 

[dutchfire]

Oh, I know why it's done well enough. It's just really strange, to me, that you can take the same operator, !, apply it to two different numbers 0 and 1, and get the same answer.

And yes, in your example above you could have defined it for n>1, and that would have avoided the problem.

For other formulae involving factorial, though, we still need 0! to be equal to 1.

cos(0)=cos(2 pi)
|1| = |-1|

 

[Borachio]

Ouch! Touché!

 

[Farm Boy]

OK, I'll see if I can do that.

Here's another question:

Say my current lease is up May 31 and to get a good apartment, I decide to sign a new lease on a second place on April 15th, so I'm paying on two places at once. Now a year rolls around from April 15th, but I don't graduate until June 1st. Is it possible (or common) for a landlord to continue renting to me for until June 1st even if I'm past the lease? Or do they just typically try and find someone else to sign for a year beginning April 16th and EFF U David Hobbs?

College towns are weird. It's possible for you to contract a lease for any amount of time, be it 12 months, 9 months, 15 months or whatever. If the landlord typically rents to students they probably design their lease around vacating/cleaning/changing tenants around the school's schedule. They may be flexible to you asking to design the lease a little differently than whatever their standard happens to be, they may not be. It is entirely possible that if they extend a tenant a month or two past when they typically end their leases then that landlord is going to not be able to find an incoming tenant for their apartment for the following school year. As such, for them 2 extra months of rent contracted and secured are not going to be worth almost certainly losing out on the following 10. As with most things in this regard, you really can't know unless you ask.