I'm new and have the AD&amp;D Monster Manual and Fiend Folio. I want to know how to calculate monsters' HP. Does 4 hit dice mean 4 HP, or 4 rolls of a die, and how do I know what die to roll if it is?
The  from Goblin Punch states the following:     Hungry Coffin   HD 6 AC 14 Slam 2d6 or 2d8 Swallow 1d6 + swallow   Fly 9 Int 5 Morale 12   It says the Hungry Coffin has "HD 6". This doesn't help me at all, because I still don't know what its average HP is, or how to roll its HP. How do I figure this out? Thanks!
Integrating MySQL with Python in Windows I was rewatching the Breaking Bad episode S04E08 (Hermanos) and I didn't quite understand why exactly Don Eladio killed Gus's partner, but he let Gus live. He says:     The only reason you're alive and he's not, is because I know who you are.   But I still have yet to fully understand. Calculate intersection of a line with a plane I was reading something about: “Intersection of a line with a plane”. But I don’t fully understand how to calculate it on their way.  The goal is to calculate where the plane and the line will “cross”. These items are given:   The eye is in position: O(0,0,-10)   A point of a 3D-object is P(10,20,30) The screen has the equation z=0   I have a questions about how they calculate this:    This part is clear. That is the location form the eye (vector representation).   They specify the location of the plane, there is nothing strange here (vector representation).   Now they calculate what part of the line will cross, how did they calculate this? How did they know a = 1/4? And b = 10/4?  This is everything that was given. Participles to modify the subject of the main clause "Essos is an immense landmass located to the east of Westeros,   extending into the far east of the known world." (Here, "extending"   describes the Essos or does it describes the landmass? )   Having seen this sentence above, I question came to my mind.   Can I use participles to modify the subject of the main clause when there is no connection between main clause and participle clause. For example:      1- "He is a bookworm, living in Canada. (He is a bookworm + He lives in   Canada, there is no connection between being bookworm and living in   Canada)      2- He, living in Canada, is a book worm. 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In my understanding, off of should usually be replaced by off, as in,     I took the book off the shelf   as opposed to     I took the book off of the shelf   Am I wrong?  Or is there perhaps some simple way I can explain this to most people? Bounding box is larger than expected when drawing a curved path I have been working on logo for my department and I have the following code. The problem is that whenever I compile the diagram seems to be larger than the actual logo. I do not know what is the problem. I know the numbers I have selected are not the best but any insights into the matter will be highly appreciated.   \documentclass[letterpaper]{article}  \usepackage[top=2cm,bottom=2cm,left=2cm,right=2cm]{geometry}  %\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,units}  %\usepackage{enumitem,multicol}  \usepackage{tikz}  %\usetikzlibrary{arrows}  \usepackage{lipsum}   \begin{document}   \lipsum[1-2]  \begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.80pt, x=0.8pt,yscale=-1]  \path[draw=black,fill=white]    (258.9527,290.5199) .. controls (173.9885,538.4766) and (568.5860,261.2969) ..    (306.5098,257.1141) .. controls (44.4337,252.9312) and (429.9845,542.5624) ..    (352.9767,292.0206) .. controls (275.9689,41.4788) and (119.6549,497.6604) ..    (334.1376,346.9999) .. controls (548.6203,196.3394) and (66.4622,188.6439) ..    (276.0276,346.0724) .. controls (485.5930,503.5010) and (343.9169,42.5633) ..    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Here is how I started out:  Try out some cases:  $x=0:$ $$f(0+y)=f(0)+f(y) \iff f(y)=f(0)+f(y) \iff 0=f(0) $$ The same result is for when $y=0$  $x=-y:$ $$f(-y+y)=f(-y)+f(y) \iff f(0)=f(-y)+f(y) \iff 0=f(-y)+f(y)\iff \quad f(-y)=-f(y)$$ I want to extend the result of setting $x=-y$ to numbers other that $-1$, perhaps all real numbers or all rational numbers. I got a little help from reading other solutions on the next part:  Let $q=1+1+1+...+1$. Then  $$f(qx)=f((1+1+...+1)x)=f(x+x+...+x)=f(x)+f(x)+...+f(x)=qf(x)$$ I understood this part, but I don't understand why this helps me find all the functions that satisfy the requirement that $f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)$, but here is how I went on:  Thus  $$f(qx)=qf(x)$$ and it should follow that $$f \bigg (\frac {1}{q} x\bigg)= \frac{1}{q}f(x)$$ where $q\not =0$, then it further follows that  $$f \bigg (\frac {p}{q} x\bigg)= \frac{p}{q}f(x)$$ where $\frac{p}{q}$ is rational, and lastly it further follows that  $$f (ax)= af(x)$$ where $a$ is real. Thus functions of the form $f(ax)$ where $a$ is real satisfies the requirement of  $f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)$.  I don't know how much of what I did is correct\incorrect, and any help would be greatly appreciated. Also is there any way that I can say that functions of the form $f(ax)$ where $a$ is real are the only functions that satisfy the requirement of  $f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)$? Or do other solutions exist?  Again, thanks a lot for any help! (Hints would be appreciated, I'll really try to understand the hints!) The first day of the current month in php using date_modify as DateTime object ToC numbering problem asp.net mvc put controllers into a separate project I'm just learning asp.net mvc and I'm trying to figure out how to move my controllers into a separate project.  Typically when I have designed asp.net web apps before, I created one project for my models, another for my logic, and then there was the web.    Now that I'm learning asp.net mvc I was hoping to follow a similar pattern and put the models and controllers each into their own separate projects, and just leave the views/scripts/css in the web.  The models part was easy, but what I don't understand is how to make my controllers in a separate project be "found".  Also, I would like to know if this is advisable.  Thanks!