Chris Ball wrote:
So, another maths exercise. I'll award a pint at the January social
meet for the first correct post with the next number in the sequence,
and another for an explanation of the sequence itself.
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 60
The next number is 61, then
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Chris Devers wrote:
Consider the word wored 'chewed'. It has two personal pronouns in it --
'he' and 'we'. Can you find a six letter word that has six pronouns it it?
I figured out 'ushers' for myself, with the list provided from kake's
link. Then I tried a few other
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:37:51PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Mark Fowler wrote:
I don't know, showing this to a load of Perl coders. Of course we're
not going to try and work it out, we're going to try and hack the
system. This is such an incitement for a script
On Monday, December 09, 2002 10:11 AM, Jonathan Peterson
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Chris Ball wrote:
So, another maths exercise. I'll award a pint at the January social
meet for the first correct post with the next number in the sequence,
and another for an explanation of the
Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Chris Ball wrote:
So, another maths exercise. I'll award a pint at the January social
meet for the first correct post with the next number in the sequence,
and another for an explanation of the sequence itself.
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37
So, another maths exercise. I'll award a pint at the January social
meet for the first correct post with the next number in the sequence,
and another for an explanation of the sequence itself.
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 60
Good luck, :-)
- Chris.
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Chris Ball wrote:
So, another maths exercise. I'll award a pint at the January social
meet for the first correct post with the next number in the sequence,
and another for an explanation of the sequence itself.
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New rule: no random guessing
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Mark Fowler wrote:
I don't know, showing this to a load of Perl coders. Of course we're
not going to try and work it out, we're going to try and hack the
system. This is such an incitement for a script that sends all the
numbers from one to hundred thousand to the list
On Sun 08 Dec 2002, Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider the word wored 'chewed'. It has two personal pronouns in it --
'he' and 'we'. Can you find a six letter word that has six pronouns it it?
You utter, utter bastard. Look what you made me do:
On 2002-12-02 21:40:47, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I should point out I was shooting for first post to get it in
before Shevek, Tony, Chris et al rather than any real attempt at
technical accuracy :-) :-)
Why, I'm honoured to be included with such eminent
: assume two numbers a b, where a = b.
:
: step 1: a = b
: step 2: a2 = ab [ after you multiply both sides by a ]
pffft
but it did confuse me for about 10 minutes.
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Chris Ball wrote:
On 2002-12-02 21:40:47, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I should point out I was shooting for first post to get it in
before Shevek, Tony, Chris et al rather than any real attempt at
technical accuracy :-) :-)
Why, I'm honoured to
I saw this and thought of you people, for some reason.
- Forwarded message -
So I went and found this on a page of math humor, in particular
of bogus proofs. This one ain't bad; a nice variant to a classic.
The aim is to prove that 1 = 2.
Notice the following:
1
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:46:32PM +, Earle Martin wrote:
and in general:
x + x + . + x = x^2
\___ x times ___/
Derive in place:
1 + 1 + . + 1 = 2 x
\___ x times ___/
1 * x = 2 x
If you're going to do differentiate a function of a function
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:18:45PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
This is totally spurious.
/me sends this back to where he got the thing from in the first place. :)
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:31:46PM +, Earle Martin wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:18:45PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
This is totally spurious.
/me sends this back to where he got the thing from in the first place. :)
I should point out I was shooting for first post to get it in
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