Italy · 3:54pm Sep 3rd, 2023
This week, I am in Italy. Having escaped from the UK; had a series of adventures on trains between Paris, Zurich, and Milan; and acquired a few blisters.
As is customary, I took Twilight Sparkle with me, although, so far, we have been both too busy reading notices and inspecting exhibits to indulge in a photoshoot, but here's a photo of breakfast at the Paris Gare de Lyon.
As a big science museum fan, I have long wanted to visit the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. It did not disappoint. There was a really good selection of exhibits and displays, including a lot on particle detectors - the LHC, Gran Sasso, BaBar silicon vertex detector (tiny compared to what we're building now) and, of course, plenty of models of Leonardo's machines.
There was one curious translation, which might offer fan fiction inspiration. There was a display inviting visitors to Guess the City after being presented with a lot of data on the resources of that location. If this was not sufficient, there was a clue at the bottom:
Decipher that cryptic bit of mathematics and you may be on your way to Hogwarts. Insert your idea for a mathematics themed fanfic here.
How do they get the translations of platform to binary? and handy having the easily readable answer at the bottom if you remember your symmetrys?
Twilight is a great travelling companion!
Sounds like a wonderful museum. I hope to visit it someday.
Got 101.11 for the binary version of 9 3/4, well, 9.75.
Would a decimal point be call a binary point if you're in base 2?
I think a good mathematical mlp fanfic idea would involve Rarity and/or the Pies talking about how crystals are classified using group theory.
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The generic term is Radix-Point. In binary, binary-point is acceptable.