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Those quirky Vulcans.

Posted: 2003-12-02 02:35am
by kojikun
Their motto is "IDIC" or "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations". Hillarious, then, that all the Vulcans ever seen are boring monotonous cookie-cutter people, eh? :P

Re: Those quirky Vulcans.

Posted: 2003-12-02 02:43am
by Darth Wong
kojikun wrote:Their motto is "IDIC" or "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations". Hillarious, then, that all the Vulcans ever seen are boring monotonous cookie-cutter people, eh? :P
What people don't understand about the Vulcans is that they were thinking of combinatoric mathematics when they said that.

Re: Those quirky Vulcans.

Posted: 2003-12-02 03:21am
by Stofsk
Darth Wong wrote:What people don't understand about the Vulcans is that they were thinking of combinatoric mathematics when they said that.
Really? I thought it was just a philosophical position. But given their focus on logic I can see how they would regard mathematics in such a light.