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- I lost all my data, hardware.
- Your mainframe?
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Burnt.
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What... What's happened?
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First, I get
these crazy low picks,
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then it spit out
this string of numbers.
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I never saw anything like it.
And then it fries.
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- It crashed.
- You have a print out?
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- Of what?
- Of the picks, the number?
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- I threw it out.
- What number did it spit out?
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I don't know,
a string of digits.
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- How many?
- I don't know.
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What is it, 100, 1 ,000, 216?
How many?
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Probably around 200. Why?
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I dealt with some bugs
back in my Pi days.
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I wondered
if it was like one I ran into.
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Have you met Archimedes?
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The one with black spots. See?
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You remember
Archimedes of Syracuse? Eh?
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The king asks Archimedes
to determine if a present
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he has received
is actually solid gold.
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Unsolved problem at the time.
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It tortures the great Greek
mathematician for weeks.
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Insomnia haunts him and he
twists and turns in his bed
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for nights on end. Finally,
his equally exhausted wife,
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forced to share a bed
with this genius,
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convinces him
to take a bath, to relax.
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While he's entering the tub,
he notices the bath water rise.
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Displacement -
a way to determine volume,
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and thus a way
to determine density.
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Weight over volume. And thus
Archimedes solves the problem.
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He screams "Eureka!"
and he is so overwhelmed,
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he runs naked through the
streets to the king's palace
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to report his discovery.
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Now, what is the moral
of the story?