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[Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:14 pm
by kerovon
Item(s) up for auction: 1 Emerald Ore and 53 stacks of netherack

Starting bid: 3 credits

Minimum increments: Any multiple of π (pi) rounded to the nearest whole number. You must use at least 3 significant digits for this calculation, but can use more if you desire. (e.g. 3.14 or 3.1415 may be used, but not 3). You round after you find the multiple of pi you wish to raise the bidding by.

Special Conditions: If the winning bid contains something that makes me actually laugh or find amusing enough*, I will knock 20% off the amount you bid. (Winning bid - 0.2*Winning Bid = Amount you pay)

Buyout: A bid that contains something that makes me A) fall out of my chair laughing, B)something that makes me laugh so hard I cry, or C) A comparable show of mirth. This will, of course, also provide the 20% discount.

End Date: August 15th, at 7 PM US Central Time.

*Note that "enough" depends on a variety of factors, possibly including but not limited to my general mood, how much work I've been doing lately, the local temperature, the local humidity, the phase of the moon, if I have been getting sufficient bans to keep me happy, heads or tails, the roll of dice, or my general opinion of you.

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Please note that this auction may be motivated as much by my boredom as it is by my greed.
In case any of the terms are unclear, feel free to request clarification. You might get it.

Clarification based on the fact that the first time I tried this, the first page and a half was entirely invalid bids.

When I say minimum increment is a multiple of pi, you must choose your multiple of pi, then add it to the previous bid.
READ THIS EXAMPLE BEFORE YOU BID
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Starting bid is 3.  You raise it by 1*pi (3.14).  3+3.14=6.14=6 credit bid.

Next bid raises it by 4*pi (12.56).  12.56+6=18.56=19 credit bid.
Please indicate what multiple of pi you are increasing the bid by for my convenience. Including your math will make it much less aggravating for me, and may effect my opinion of the relative humor value of any attempted amusing submissions. I will also be throwing out bids that were not raised by multiples of pi, or are invalid for whatever reason.

Do not just bid a straight multiple of pi. This will almost certainly prove wrong.

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:14 pm
by Roobean
3 - (Starting Bid)

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:15 pm
by ghastly18
6

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:17 pm
by Roobean
6 + 7 pi = 27.99113 = 28rc

>.> I don't remember liking the post above xD

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:32 pm
by dlgn
Hmmm...how to make kero laugh ._.

Umm...42!

Oh wait...increments...

Why in the name of Intelli's fresh-baked chocolate cookies did you have to make the increments so weird?

Ah, to TF with it. 42, increments be damned. Anyway, I like pi. It's nice, though not as cute as e. Ah, well. You can use increments of e when you auction Roobean.

~dlgn

EDIT: 4*pi+28=40.56! 41 works! Make it 41! It's close enough to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything to work as a makeshift, right? Right?

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:06 am
by AlM
(4*3.14)+41=53.56=53cr

Hopefully.

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:22 am
by ghastly18
57

This is an invalid bid. Needs to increment by a multiple of pi.

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:55 am
by GaidinBDJ
84.

That's the product of the uncertainty of the location and momentum of a particle (calculated by diving Planck's constant by 4 * pi) times the length of a Minecraft plank in the default texture (16 pixels) to the nearest integer after dropping the negative exponential scaling. (For accuracy you'd have to multiple the above bid by 10^-34 px*((m^2* kg)/s) but I doubt you take bids payable in .00000001ths of a yoctopixelJoulesecond)

You never said we couldn't use quantum mechanics in our multiples.

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:19 am
by dlgn
Kero said minimum increments. LOL. That means that we can do anything more than 3.14+the current bid. Trololol.

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88.

Invalid Bid. Multiples of pi required.

Re: [Auction]: Double Chest including Emerald Ore

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:23 am
by zequawn
log(10^70) = 70credits


Invalid Bid. Multiples of pi required. Also, lower than the previous high bid.