edumacational - fun with binomial theory
Jul. 28th, 2004 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doyleI was posting a comment about this on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
icafreak's journal and I thought "it's maths! Random pointless maths! Who wouldn't love that!"
So anyway, I was talking about my love of odd pairings.
I'd love to have written all the possible pairings, even if it's only for a ficlet, but even just counting the major characters there are *so many*. (If we're talking Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Dawn, Anya, Tara, Oz, Riley, Spike, Angel, Cordelia, Gunn, Wesley, Fred, Illyria, Lorne, Harmony, Doyle, Faith, Lindsey and Lilah - 22 people equals (22*21)/2 pairings. That's 231 pairings, unless my maths is shoddier than I think. And it would mean writing something like Lorne/Dawn or Giles/Lindsey...)
I'm sure I'm missing a major character. Connor! How could I forget my boy! And Andrew! Okay, add them. And Snyder, forswmbo. That gives us 25 characters. The number of possible pairings goes up to 300 (25*24/2). 300! I've got a long way to go before I've done all of them.
If our 25 characters are bored with twosomes then there's a gigantamous 25*24*23/6 = 2300 possibilities for hot threeway action. Okay, might be just a bit impossible to do them all.
The moral of this is: more randomness in our pairings is what we need. To start with, someone should write Cordelia/Dawn/Riley. Or, asicafreak suggested, Anya/Illyria.
Disclaimer: should be taken as an estimate only. I may well have screwed up the maths, in which case the mathematicians on my friendslist will point and laugh.
icafreak's journal and I thought "it's maths! Random pointless maths! Who wouldn't love that!"So anyway, I was talking about my love of odd pairings.
I'd love to have written all the possible pairings, even if it's only for a ficlet, but even just counting the major characters there are *so many*. (If we're talking Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Dawn, Anya, Tara, Oz, Riley, Spike, Angel, Cordelia, Gunn, Wesley, Fred, Illyria, Lorne, Harmony, Doyle, Faith, Lindsey and Lilah - 22 people equals (22*21)/2 pairings. That's 231 pairings, unless my maths is shoddier than I think. And it would mean writing something like Lorne/Dawn or Giles/Lindsey...)
I'm sure I'm missing a major character. Connor! How could I forget my boy! And Andrew! Okay, add them. And Snyder, for
swmbo. That gives us 25 characters. The number of possible pairings goes up to 300 (25*24/2). 300! I've got a long way to go before I've done all of them.If our 25 characters are bored with twosomes then there's a gigantamous 25*24*23/6 = 2300 possibilities for hot threeway action. Okay, might be just a bit impossible to do them all.
The moral of this is: more randomness in our pairings is what we need. To start with, someone should write Cordelia/Dawn/Riley. Or, as
icafreak suggested, Anya/Illyria.Disclaimer: should be taken as an estimate only. I may well have screwed up the maths, in which case the mathematicians on my friendslist will point and laugh.
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on 2004-07-28 02:41 pm (UTC)And yep, Darla and Dru should have been on there. I'm wondering if Warren and Jonathan and Ethan and Joyce should be, too... (admittedly this means Buffy/Joyce and Dawn/Joyce coming into it. Which would be doable, going for really dark darkfic where either Joyce is a vampire, 'came back wrong' in Forever, or was The First.)
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on 2004-07-28 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-07-28 03:31 pm (UTC)Somebody's bound to mention Jenny Calendar now
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on 2004-07-28 03:39 pm (UTC)...but that's just me being evil.
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on 2004-07-28 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-07-28 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-07-28 03:56 pm (UTC)*wonders if anyone has mentioned Knox yet*
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on 2004-07-28 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-07-28 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-07-28 03:46 pm (UTC)It has to be done. As does Holtz/Gunn.
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on 2004-07-28 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-07-28 03:44 pm (UTC)And Johnathan, Larry, Kennedy, Rona, Vi, Amanda, Joyce... um... whosits who ran the Watcher's Council....
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on 2004-07-28 03:57 pm (UTC)