Re: Would Evangelion be less interesting without the sexy women?

Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> Anyway, who is Nuku^2 anyway?
> 
> Many people forget that "Nuku" are - no matter how you want to see it -
> not less than TWO characters, and therefore the ^2 only squares the last
> one. (Nuku)^2 would be correct. Same with Pen^2, which is Penn. These
> people actually mean (Pen)^2.

Not exactly; algebraic terms are not the only usage. One might conceive 
of a hypothetical computer language which indeed used the ^ sign for 
powers, and hence which would make the above syntax correct.

By your definition (Pen)^2 = PenPen. Officially, however, IIRC its name 
is Pen-Pen. Therefore the simplest form is not (Pen)^2, but rather just 
"0". Same for Nuku^2... oops, I mean 0.

- 5parrow (yeah... that's the stuff...)