Seventh PSI

[a_gentle_boy]

Um.

. . .

Carry the . . . 2, right?  And then . . . Hm.  That's not right.  Maybe I have to do long division . . . Or calculus?  I heard someone mention calculus before, but I don't know how it's any different from calculation . . .  Is that when I put the 4 underneath the bracket  . . . ?  And make it so that there are enough 4s to go into 9394

Comments

[izlegal]

[A light chuckle] You really ought to have your parents do that. Unless it's for school?

[a_gentle_boy]

My 'dad' said I should learn . . . The government sure is generous. I couldn't get that much DP if I destroyed a hundred chimeras.

[izlegal]

[Going to... pretend he didn't hear the DP thing...or chimera...]

Usually it isn't; perhaps there was a mathematical error?

[a_gentle_boy]

But I'm sure I did all the multiplication right. I just finished learning it in school and I got a good grade . . .

[The problem, Lucas, may lie in the fact that you multiplied instead of divided.]

[fuelefficient]

I think you may have made a mistake.

[a_gentle_boy]

Really? . . . Maybe it was over here. 35 times 401 is 959,245, right?

[fuelefficient]

In terms of where the mistake is being made, I would not know unless I saw the paper.

[a_gentle_boy]

Oh. But there's definitely a mistake, you think? I guess I'll just have to go back and double check everything . . . This is pretty hard.

[windmill]

How'd you come to that number?

[a_gentle_boy]

I used math!

[windmill]

I think your math's a little off.

[a_gentle_boy]

Really? So I'm not getting that much money after all?

[ahoge_goddess]

You must have made a tiny mistake, little one.

[a_gentle_boy]

A tiny mistake . . . ? Why?

[ahoge_goddess]

Because no government would pay that much willingly to a single subject.

[a_gentle_boy]

Maybe. Maybe the government of Mayfield is actually really nice and just wants to give us all a lot of money so we can buy whatever we want.