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Okay, I understand that Santa is saying, "Water, water, water," but what is the formula. (Don't give it away too quickly -- it may come to me. But eventually, do.)

HINT: Santa is actually saying, "Ho, Ho, Ho." Jason is just using formula-speak to express that.

HINT #2: Take a look at (1/y)^-1 and sqrt(x^2) as a place to start.

I'll post the answer tomorrow.

I thought it was clever, as Amend always is. This site will tell you about e, and then blow your mind...http://mathworld.wolfram.com/e.html

Ya, that's a good site. I only got about halfway down the page before my brain exploded.

Ya know, I must be the wrong type of geek. Kinda like the difference between the CIS school geeks and the IT school geeks here at RIT. I'm the IT guy. CIS just gives me a headache.

Case-in-point: Although I can appreciate the joke, I am THRILLED with the elegant way you hid the answer (black on black). THAT made me laugh. It's a keeper - going in my "simple HTML things" list.

next time just put it in latin, I might have an easier time anwereing it.

Thank you us simple minded folk got lost. My brothers are math wizards in the family. Caleb wanted me to figure it out but I told him I was sure we would have lengthy conversations at Christmas time.
Kay

Simple-minded, bah! Mother of five budding geniuses (genii?), you should also see her take command of a kitchen. A maestro, I say!

But if it's Latin geekery you're after, I've got that too:

http://www.ksmoker.com/archives/000141.html