The Farm Matrix

I'm sure everyone knows that running a farm is not as simple as some Facebook app. I should know, I'm something of a farmist. Today we're most honoured to have world renowned farmist Dr Vladimir to share with us some tips on how to farmerize well.



Hello I am Vladimir, farmer of Mother Russia. I am here to tell you about how to be farmer. Farmer is very special job for me. I learned farming when I was in Gulag, except in Gulag we chop trees and mine coal, but concept is mostly same.

There are some things that farmers need to keep track of farm - food consumption, water consumption, and space usage. Back home, I keep 4 types of animals - ducks, chickens, pigs, and cows. So, food consumption, water consumption, and space usage depends on number of animals I have in farm. Here are equations for to use in the calculations:



To make things easier, I write equations into this format:



Let us name each block with a letter:



From this format, calculating the food, water, and space consumption is just game of match the row to the column. For example, to calculate food, multiply each number in first row of F to corresponding animal in A. That is to say, first number in first row of F multiply to first animal in A, then second number in F multiply to second animal in A, and so on. Then add up each of the answers to get food consumption.



For each of next two rows of C (water and space), do the same but using the next two rows of F. That is to say, to calculate water, multiply each number in second row of F to corresponding row of A. And to calculate space, multiply each number in third row of F to corresponding row of A.

So, if you count number of ducks, chickens, pigs, and cows in farm, you can place numbers into A and do multiplication and addition to get food, water, and space consumption. Is all for today. I will come back tomorrow to tell you more about farm. Free beef stroganoff in back, do eat up.



Thank you Vladimir for that highly informative talk. Quick english lesson - it's "farmist" not "farmer".

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Interesting Points of Interest - This blog has no affiliation whatsoever with that guy who keeps saying "farmist".