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This is the website and blog of Ian Stocker, a contract game musician & sound designer from the Bay Area, California, USA.

I have done over 34 titles since 2002 for the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS.

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05Sep

Immortality at Last!

DateWednesday, September 5, 2007 at 09:12AM

Probably one of the highest honors in the gaming world has been conferred upon me.

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Angry Video Game Nerd - Nintendo Power [GameTrailers]

Money shot at 11:45.

I think I was about 14 when I wrote in. We were studying permutations in math class, so I decided to run the numbers on Mario Paint. I almost didn't write in, but see, they found the information very useful! So I'm glad I did.

Thanks Eric for finding this one.

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Dude! Hilarous! You know, I found your blog by googling your name after seeing the Angry Video Game Nerd show. I figured this sounds like a kid that actually would have a web presence today! :) Have a nice life!
September 7, 2007 | Unregistered Commenter14 at the time too
thanks for the useful information. hahaha. awesome n!=p*nr(n-r)!
September 7, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterNick Vasallo
Yeah Ian, I couldn't believe it when I found this. I saw the "Ian Stocker" in my peripheral vision. Part of my mind instantly doubted, and the other part thought, "Hmm, but that does sound like something he'd say." A microsecond later, I saw it was from Carpinteria, and laughed out loud.

I also figured someone like commenter #1 would find this blog afterwards. Haha. Awesome.
September 9, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterEric
Update: my numbers were, sadly, incorrect as my mathematician friend Nick (of Mudoku fame) put it:

"Whoa, I just figured out what you did! You did 41664 ** 15! And got 1978857121979412650409479276369376248486271424119522704015373027508224. And you rounded off a bunch of it. :)

I get it. You were playing a version of Mario Paint with 41664 colors and 15 pixels. ;)"

I guess there are a few lessons here, but the main one is that Mario Paint must have been such an exciting experience for me that I switched the numbers around in the equation without realizing.
September 9, 2007 | Registered CommenterIan Stocker
Eric,

Fantastic. I'm glad to know he got a kick out of that.

"Uh... thanks Ian."

Take care,

-James
September 22, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterEric
Now that incorrect statistic might never die. To set the record straight: the correct answer is 4.64*10^49000. That has 49001 digits; you were a little off with 70 digits.
May 18, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterCuBr

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