Date: 2009-07-20 12:17 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] michelel72.livejournal.com
(Indeed we do!)

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say John is brighter than Rodney, at least not in the traditional IQ sense. I'm pretty sure Rodney's two doctorates are canon, and they have him master a ludicrous breadth and variety of fields with little effort. John is good at people and arithmetic, he has to have at least a bachelor's degree to be an officer, and both being a pilot and military strategy do require intelligence, but I don't know of much other evidence along those lines. But the show doesn't like to give specifics anyway, so there's plenty of room for speculation. (And the ficcers cheer!)

I may have worked this out by now, but you seem a good person to ask: Why is it 6! from Ford's information? Gate addresses are seven positions, aren't they? Or is it that the last position is the home symbol for where you're dialing from, so in having six (and knowing none of the six is the current location marker somehow), you need only arrange them? That's the only way I get 6! as the total possible number of combinations. (This explanation only just occurred to me; I had always thought they were missing one position and had no idea how many possible characters were in the set.)

It's funny, I always do factorials from the highest number down, I think because otherwise I'd forget where I'm aiming to stop .... :>
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