cang

[mageykun]

No idea. Google fails.

My first though was that I was pretty sure crawl didn't use greek letters in ascii. My second was whoever did that didn't get nearly creative enough with the irrational numbers. Missed opportunity.

Edit: 3rd thought. How do you stumble across something in the knowledge bots unless you're specifically searching for it?

[Zchris13]

It's common knowledge on the IRC. The best part? Gretell is mostly composed of actual monsters!

[danr]

My second was whoever did that didn't get nearly creative enough with the irrational numbers. Missed opportunity.

Yeah, that would have been hilarious with better irrational numbers! (??????)

Zchris, do you know more? Your answer is cryptic at best, but annoyingly pretends to be informative.

All I can figure out:

cang (Ω)
Speed: c | HD: I | Health: 666 | AC/EV: e/π | Damage: 999 | Resistances: sanity
XP: ∞

- c is the speed of light
- I - no idea
- 666 is commonly known as the number of the beast
- e is euler's number and is supposedly a Pretty Big Deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)
- pi is also an important mathematical constant to do with circles and whatnot
- 999 is 666 upside down
- sanity - I'm not familiar with the concept
- ∞ is infinity

I'm sure all this with the name "cang" adds up to one hilarious joke for those cool enough to be in the know, but so far it has only irritated me.

[MrMisterMonkey]

On zchris' answer, I'm pretty sure that was the point.

[danr]

Great. I hope he found his own post amusing then.

[mageykun]

The HD is a capitol i. Usually it's not capitalized, but as a constant i is the square root of negative one. Which would make his HD imaginary.

Yeah, that would have been hilarious with better irrational numbers! (??????)

I'm a physics guy. I've grown to expect a higher standard in math jokes than just throwing irrational constants in where there should be integers, or making things imaginary. :p And of course, by a "higher standard" I mean "incomprehensible to all except the sleep deprived grad students who've been working problems all night".

[Kate]

I'm pretty confident I'm missing the point here but can someone tell me what exactly this "cang" meme is about?

cang

[TGW]

I know what it is. I'm asking what it's about. That would include the origin, etc. rather than just parroting it again.

cang

[danr]

I'm starting to suspect that it is a lame inside joke for uber nerds that has no actual real substance to it.

Trying to find it will only get you cang.

[MrMisterMonkey]

not really
no

[Grimm]

If you add all the numbers up you get 27.