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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Bentley Bullet on December 19, 2024, 05:50:17 pm
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I'll start seeing as it's my idea.
If you subtract your age from the current year you get your birth year.
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What if you’ve not had your birthday yet this year
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What if you’ve not had your birthday yet this year
You mean like me! Mine's tomorrow, so it doesn't quite work for me, but it is meant as a much-needed light-hearted thread!
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On a clock face if you add the 12 and 1 which are next to each other you get 13.
Then add the corresponding numbers on either side 11 and 2 you get 13.
Followed by 10 and 3
9 and 4
8 and 5
finally 7 and 6.
All 13.
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And Whitgift Church on River Ouse bank east of Goole spoils that because ....
It has XIII at the top of its dial .
I.think.thats a fascinating fact
https://www.soularchitects.co.uk/whitgift-church-clock-and-the-meaning-behind-its-bakers-dozen/
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The first married couple shown in bed together was …………………………..Mr and Mrs Flintstone, Fred and Wilma
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We live closer in time to the T-Rex, than the T-Rex does to the Stegosaurus.
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On a clock face if you add the 12 and 1 which are next to each other you get 13.
Then add the corresponding numbers on either side 11 and 2 you get 13.
Followed by 10 and 3
9 and 4
8 and 5
finally 7 and 6.
All 13.
There's story about the great German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss when he was 6 years old at school.
Apparently, to keep the kids occupied, his teacher set them the task of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 100.
Before the teacher had sat down, Gauss puts his hand up and said 5,050 sir.
How did he do it so quickly?
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I’ve heard of this BST its adding the first and last remaining numbers, similar to the clock above.
The answer is always 101.
But cant recall how he got to 5050.
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Oh it’s obvious I think, when there is only the 50 left its 50-50 but how he realised that that must be the sum of the numbers is beyond me.
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Nearly Tommy.
There's 50 pairs.
1&100
2&99
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49&52
50&51.
So there's 50 lots of 101.
50 lots of 100 would be 5000. Then add the last 50 on.
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1 ----100
2----99
3--98
4-97
Sigma Σ 50 of em at 101 a time and wot is 50 times 101 ??
now my turn :evil:
Comrade Starmer pays his lackey £100 a week and for Christmas in Scrooge style reduces his wage for a week by 10% so he pays him only £90 for that week
then he says to the Lackey he will put his wages back up by 10% and pays him only £99 .
How did Starmer manage to fleece the lackey of £1 ???
update
I was watching Celebrity University Challenge as i was typing this and it took me over half an hour to multi-task ??
we pause the prog to come up with our answers so it takes an hour to watch
Didn't recognise Boeteng X MP
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Ignoring the shite above.
Aye BST, got it!
Ta.
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1 ----100
2----99
3--98
4-97
Sigma Σ 50 of em at 101 a time and wot is 50 times 101 ??
now my turn :evil:
Comrade Starmer pays his lackey £100 a week and for Christmas in Scrooge style reduces his wage for a week by 10% so he pays him only £90 for that week
then he says to the Lackey he will put his wages back up by 10% and pays him only £99 .
How did Starmer manage to fleece the lackey of £1 ???
update
I was watching Celebrity University Challenge as i was typing this and it took me over half an hour to multi-task ??
we pause the prog to come up with our answers so it takes an hour to watch
Didn't recognise Boeteng X MP
Cuckoo,
and Merry Xmas
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Fun fact - if you mistyped 2592 with 2592 it wouldn't make any difference
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Fun fact - if you mistyped 2592 with 2592 it wouldn't make any difference
Is there some trick to this that I've missed DU?
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2 to the power 5 = 32
9 squared = 81
32 * 81 =2592
So 2592 = 2592
It is what is known as a 'mathematical accident'
edit: As a mathematician I find that a 'fascinating fact'
By the way the Gauss story and the explanation of pairing numbers as above leads to the formula for the sum of the numbers 1 to n being equal to 0.5*n*(n+1), and which is true for both even and odd numbers
So n=100 means sum of 1 to 100 = 0.5*100*101 = 50 * 101 = 5050
I reckon it must be highly unlikely the 6yr old Gauss knew this formula, so I suppose he must have thought of the pairing approach himself, which is remarkable.
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2 to the power 5 = 32
9 squared = 81
32 * 81 =2592
So 2592 = 2592
It is what is known as a 'mathematical accident'
edit: As a mathematician I find that a 'fascinating fact'
By the way the Gauss story and the explanation of pairing numbers as above leads to the formula for the sum of the numbers 1 to n being equal to 0.5*n*(n+1), and which is true for both even and odd numbers
So n=100 means sum of 1 to 100 = 0.5*100*101 = 50 * 101 = 5050
I reckon it must be highly unlikely the 6yr old Gauss knew this formula, so I suppose he must have thought of the pairing approach himself, which is remarkable.
no respect to Dutch Uncle (who's intelligence I highly respect)
but if I had typed that Old Tommy Toes ( one of BST's Batmen) would have typed
"Ignoring the shite above."
Right
In the fifties when no substitutes were allowed ...After a local amateur football match there were only 7 pies for 22 players
How much did each person get ?
Answer one over pie :coat:
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2 to the power 5 = 32
9 squared = 81
32 * 81 =2592
So 2592 = 2592
It is what is known as a 'mathematical accident'
edit: As a mathematician I find that a 'fascinating fact'
By the way the Gauss story and the explanation of pairing numbers as above leads to the formula for the sum of the numbers 1 to n being equal to 0.5*n*(n+1), and which is true for both even and odd numbers
So n=100 means sum of 1 to 100 = 0.5*100*101 = 50 * 101 = 5050
I reckon it must be highly unlikely the 6yr old Gauss knew this formula, so I suppose he must have thought of the pairing approach himself, which is remarkable.
DU
As I'm sure you know, the very closely related 0.5*n*(n-1) is
the number of handshakes that take place if everyone in a group of "n" people shakes hands once with everyone else.
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And one that I'd instinctively thought was related but isn't.
You only need 23 people in a group for the odds to be shorter than evens that two of them share a birthday.
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And one that I'd instinctively thought was related but isn't.
You only need 23 people in a group for the odds to be shorter than evens that two of them share a birthday.
Is that what they mean by the cake number?
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CLH
Your fact about 10% of £90 was shite too.
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CLH
Your fact about 10% of £90 was shite too.
True though.
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2 to the power 5 = 32
9 squared = 81
32 * 81 =2592
So 2592 = 2592
It is what is known as a 'mathematical accident'
edit: As a mathematician I find that a 'fascinating fact'
By the way the Gauss story and the explanation of pairing numbers as above leads to the formula for the sum of the numbers 1 to n being equal to 0.5*n*(n+1), and which is true for both even and odd numbers
So n=100 means sum of 1 to 100 = 0.5*100*101 = 50 * 101 = 5050
I reckon it must be highly unlikely the 6yr old Gauss knew this formula, so I suppose he must have thought of the pairing approach himself, which is remarkable.
Thanks DU didn't read/see 32x81
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Your eyelashes are attached to (or are in fact) the same hair that grows from your bum.
Try pulling a hair from your rear end & THAT’S why your eyes water.
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And one that I'd instinctively thought was related but isn't.
You only need 23 people in a group for the odds to be shorter than evens that two of them share a birthday.
Yes , I had the calculation given to me for 30 people in a Room and what are the odds of 2 of them having the same birthday
I think it was very very very slightly more than evens
Can't find it anywhere though
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Google
https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-the-birthday-paradox
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Fascinating fact - since modern Olympics events began in 1896, 'going with the leap year', the summer event has actually twice been held in a non-leap year.
Will await guesses as which before giving the answer :lol:
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Since we have now moved away from a leap year since I posed this question, the answers are:
The planned 2020 Tokyo Olympics were held in 2021 because of COVID, and the 1900 Paris Olympics were held in 1900 which was not a leap year (rule at Centuries is that first 2 digits must be divisible by 4, so 1900 was not a leap year while 2000 was)
I have been asked to be quizmaster at a fund raising quiz in March, which I stupidly agreed, and am now very nervous. I was trying out this question. I initially forgot to exempt Winter Olympics from the question.