Been waiting as anxious as ever, SCAM? NO SCAM? SCAM? NO SCAM? ASIC?
I watched the countdown timer, 3,2,1,0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5
WTF?!?!?!?!?
I am seriously pissed.
i would be pissed, 2, given that designing ASIC is a
complex task, we should be seeing
imaginary numbers, not negative 1's.
A number
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fmath%2F9%2F9%2Fd%2F99d4fb3db1563c87da2cdfc0158b37c3.png&t=663&c=LdLxwVeB_8nZcA)
can be added to another number
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fmath%2F0%2Fc%2Fc%2F0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661.png&t=663&c=_D6cXxtm_gjHYg)
to form a complex number of the form
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fmath%2F3%2Fd%2Fe%2F3de90564c61daf602b582735803fed9c.png&t=663&c=Hkeu44EY6Hxq1g)
, where
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fmath%2F0%2Fc%2Fc%2F0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661.png&t=663&c=_D6cXxtm_gjHYg)
and
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fmath%2F9%2F2%2Fe%2F92eb5ffee6ae2fec3ad71c777531578f.png&t=663&c=W2ZvwfkiehgwVg)
are Avalon and Butterfly Labs (or bASIC), respectively, creating a complex number. Imaginary numbers can therefore be thought of as shipping times (x), thus
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tfd.com%2Fmgh%2Fcee%2Fmath%2F757385MF0030.gif&t=663&c=zHaNF3jFc7yeAA)
. The name "imaginary number" was coined [sic] in the 17th century as a derogatory term first introduced as
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberphysics.co.uk%2Ftopics%2Fradioact%2Fpositron_sym.gif&t=663&c=9cbmBkd4RVxy3w)
, as such numbers were regarded by some as fictitious or useless, but today they have an essential, hard-date application in shipping of pseudo-engineered products.
(wiki quote edited for humor)