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Great! Greg, I visited your website ( biosimilarity.com ) a few days ago and I read you organise workshops onMonadic Design Patterns for the Web. I wanted to write you an email and ask if you have any video about this for the ones who can't attend your workshops... and now we have it!

Have fun, here is The Flake Equation:

http://xkcd.com/718/

Yet another random question... (The question of Charles about the z axis of his garden made me less shy about my questions... So here is my question... How do pocket calculators calculate the sqrt? I understand that it may be easy to implement Newton's method on a circuit, but it isn't an effective way to find the sqrt of perfect squares. It gets closer and closer, but it will produce a result like x.99999...

Ah, great video. A cosmology related question popped up in mind while I was watching this... Maybe Brian or somebody else here can answer it. If Time is not a fixed variable, but it can be distorted, how can we know if the Universe is 13.7 billion years old... Or even, does it make any sense to talk about its age? If Time is "expanding" or is being distorted, maybe the Universe was born just before the moment we call Now... (Sorry, if it's a stupid question.)

Something else. Brian, you talked about a truck simulator software in another video some years ago and you said something like that maybe you will never see its source code, but the basic idea behind the simulation of metal pieces was quite obvious... now it's an open source software. So you can check it out, if you want.

It always makes me smile when Brain talks about a new technology and asks Charles "is that true?" or says "I don't know...".  I'm pretty sure he knows everything, but he can't talk about an upcoming product. By the way, Brian, I really enjoyed your video on Channel 8 about turning ideas into products. It'd be nice if you could tell us more about that someday.