http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/ Engadget Comments for Homegrown alarm clock tests your math to gauge alertness http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
http://gizmodo.com/359085/home+made-alarm-clock-beeps-until-you-solve-a-mathematical-problem
]]>Feb 26th 2008 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
Answer is (5/4)x^4 + (1/4) cos(4x) + 7x + c]]>Feb 26th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything

Besides that, I wouldn't even know the real answer. :s]]>Feb 26th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
perhaps that is the point, but if i am going to be woken up out of my drunken slumber by a novely alarm clock, its going to be the one with wheels that runs away from you while squealing.

I mean, I am not going to be happy to be awake as it is, might as well make it fun for the roomates. I don't think there is anything funnier than watching a half-asleep, drunk, angry guy chasing a little alarm clock around a two bedroom appt while screaming something about the three wise men stearing him wrong and being late for work.]]>Feb 26th 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/(quote)
%
(quote)
..and so on.
...guess what scripting language you should use!
*ahem* python.]]>Feb 26th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
Or, for a wrong answer...."Nee!"


]]>Feb 27th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 27th 2008 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
ON hackaday like last week]]>Feb 26th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
..nevermind, wron-

...nevermind.]]>Feb 26th 2008 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
1) Why do you ask your roommate math questions in his sleep?
2) Is he getting paid for his ability to do math in his sleep? He sounds like NASA material...
3) How fast can he solve a rubiks cube?
4) Is your roomate that cat?]]>Feb 26th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/2) Nah. If chimps are going into space, he could probably be NASA material...
3) He's not a genius. I don't ask him anything he can't answer while he's awake. He's bad at math.
4) No. Everyone seems facinated by my choice of cat icon.]]>Feb 26th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
]]>Feb 26th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
"Homegrown calculator automatically answers questions that your homegrown alarm clock asks you"]]>Feb 26th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 27th 2008 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
Option 1) Solve math problem while brain isn't functioning beyond breathing and making it to the bathroom.

Option 2) Destroy alarm clock while not thinking of the consequences in your half-awake rage

I think Option 2 will win every round, but I still want one.

]]>Feb 26th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 26th 2008 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/
Unfortunately, I wasn't that good a programmer those days, so (a) I stayed up late getting written, and (b) I didn't test it. (Looking back, I can't really reconcile these two statements. Maybe I took a lot of time looking things up in Inside Mac?) So, at 4:00 in the morning, three Macs started clanging at me, and I jumped up and discovered that there was some sort of bug that meant I had to answer the question within 2 seconds, or some such, or it would think that I had clicked OK, with the wrong answer, and make me start over. Oh, and I had set it to pick two-digit numbers in a range I could multiply fairly quickly--I think it was [10..50]--but multiplying 47 by 35 within two seconds, with three machines clanging away, turned out to be harder than I'd thought. I had to keep giving wrong answers until it came up with an easy one.]]>Feb 26th 2008 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 27th 2008 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 27th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 27th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 27th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/homegrown-alarm-clock-tests-your-math-to-gauge-alertness/Feb 29th 2008 4:34PM