Celestia Sleeps In--Chapter 8 notes and thanks · 2:34am Apr 6th, 2013
Chapter 8 notes
Once again, a huge thanks to my pre-readers:
Humanist
My parents
Woonsocket Wrench
Especially Humanist. We exchanged quite a few e-mails back and forth on this chapter, and had a lot of discussion about the Equestrian night sky, their understanding of it, and Luna’s role in arranging it. I’d like to think that we came to a reasonable conclusion, based on what we’ve seen thus far in the show. There are some other details, which will be revealed when Luna comes back to discuss the astronomy book with Twilight. Now, onward to the references section!
Any number that does not evenly divide by seven will have the repeating series of digits: 142857. It will start at a different point, depending on what the remainder is, but the series will remain the same. As far as I know, it would do the same in base 12, although of course the number series would be different. A math genius is welcome to correct me if I’m wrong.
The discussion of the herd models is from Archonix’s The Xenophile’s Guide to Equestria.
“Simply Rarity” is a reference to Somber’s story of the same name.
Love of cheesecakes is a reference to Quantum Castatways by DustTraveller (it’s probably the only reference to that story I’ll be able to work in, unless I can justify Marshall suddenly showing up). It’s a really good story, and you should read it if you haven’t. Twilight and Marshall are one of the best human/pony pairings ever.
Dr. Mane Goodall—hey, it’s her name on the Wiki. What can I do?
Her graduation from Manehatten University is from “Ask the Vet Pony.”
In case y’all didn’t guess, Bucky Fuller is a kind of self-making pun on R. Buckminister Fuller. I was originally going to use Perfect Home—which was a reference to The Memoirs of a Reality Jumper by Techogre—but I was loathe to give a significant role to somebody else’s OC without the express written permission of that author, CBS, and the NFL.
Octavia Van Clef is a reference to Private Gig, by NavyPony.
I had my veterinarian friend remind me of the word for Pinkie Pie’s bouncing movement (stotting—also pronking or pronging), and also learned that a similar behavior in rabbits is called binky-ing [I am not kidding; you can look it up]. For as serious a profession as biologists have, I sometimes wonder if they’re not secretly all trolls at heart. At least, the ones who come up with names.
The “dexterity enhancer” comes from The Roommate by totallynotabrony
The Oatfield Café is from In Which Twilight Sparkle Attempts to Eat a Sandwich, by Maphysto.
I'll get back to you on the number thing
According to this site, sevenths are repeating in the duodecimal system (although with a different series of numbers, of course).
The pattern is .186A35
1609614 Oops, I forgot to get the repeating pattern. Sorry!
Of course they repeat. 7 is not a prime factor of 12.
How the hell did I miss the memoirs reference, I'm only one the main freaking editors for it.
Excuse me I must commit sudoku... where's my pen?
:Edit:
It wasn't used, that's how... sleep might be a good idea
One only has termination of radix-representation if all of the primefactors of the divisor are in the base:
10 (Decimal):
2, 5
12 Duodecimal):
2,3
60 (Sexagesimal):
2, 3, 5
Sexagesimal is an excellent base because it is an highly composite number, the least common multiple of all natural numbers upto 6, and has 3 primefactors (2, 3, and 5).
http://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/the-best-taxonomy-humor-1opu
(Going back and rereading this while waiting for Pony Planet to update)
4471156
(I still like big brown bats and little brown bats.)