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View Poll Results: What should be the name of our Newspaper?
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1 - Daily Data Download
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1 - Digital Data Download
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1 - Write-in
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1 - Abstain
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2 - 3D
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2 - D^3
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2 - Write-in
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2 - Abstain
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May 15, 2003, 09:35
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#1
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Local Time: 01:34
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Oxford or Northampton, England
Posts: 8,116
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Name for Newspaper - repoll
Sorry, forgot to make last one multiple choice 
Ok, here is a poll for the name of the newspaper, currently known as 3D. We have 2 distinct questions.
1 - Should the name be:
Daily Data Download
Digital Data Download
Write-in (please specify) or
Abstain
2 - Should it be abbreviated to:
3D
D^3
Write-in (please specify) or
Abstain
Please vote for one option in each.
You have 2 days.
Also, please send any articles to me, or post in the 3D office thread (which may need to be renamed to D^3). Thank you.
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May 15, 2003, 09:38
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Local Time: 01:34
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Oxford or Northampton, England
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I vote Digital Data Download and 3D.
It will not be daily, thus daily data download is inappropriate and illogical, and 3D has a double meaning, is easier to understand and reminds me of p4. D^3 looks good, and I won't mind if it is chosen, but seems more complicated unnecessarily,and will mean telling everyone on the main forum that it is renamed. We already use 3D, so I don't think there is that much reason to change.
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For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something
"Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker
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May 15, 2003, 23:19
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Prince
Local Time: 20:34
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 861
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D^3 is the more logical choice.
When expanded out, D^3 comes out as DDD, whereas 3D expanded comes as D+D+D.
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May 16, 2003, 09:00
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Local Time: 01:34
Local Date: November 2, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Well, DDD is still 3 D's. D+D+D is DDD, it is just in Earthian mathematics they chose to presume a * (or x) when there was no symbol present.
3D = D+D+D
D^3 = D*D*D
If each D is worth a value, then sure 2D is worth twice what 1D is worth, and 3D is worth 3 times as much. However, with D^3, we are saying that we one D we have D, with 2 we have D times D, and with 3 we have D*D*D, which we do not have, since 3 Ds should be worth the 3 times as much as 1 D, and we have 3 Ds in the title.
That was all long winded and silly [You Don't Say! --TKG  ], but I think the fact that in old Earth notation we get DDD is irrelevant, since written in full it would be D*D*D. We have 3 Ds in the title, not D times D number of Ds.
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For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something
"Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker
Last edited by Method; May 16, 2003 at 15:12.
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