tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post8918934329333820165..comments2023-12-14T17:43:04.484+00:00Comments on timbobig: Numb and NumberTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-47736823089292366422015-07-16T22:08:45.365+01:002015-07-16T22:08:45.365+01:00I had two grandmothers, and I know the years they ...I had two grandmothers, and I know the years they were born. Can your algorhythm work backwards so that I can find out the number I first thought of?Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-31260651169642084642015-07-11T22:58:07.386+01:002015-07-11T22:58:07.386+01:00Living with Sir Bruin, it's inevitable that Li...Living with Sir Bruin, it's inevitable that Liz should focus on pi.<br /><br />I know little about maths but I enjoy numbers. My children are bemused when I explain how I remember a long number a series of - the square root of one number followed by the square root of another number gives the year that your grandmother was born, followed by her age when I was born ... and so I ramble on. It all makes sense to me. Or anyway, it did before I wrote it down.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-55502477489952449562015-07-08T22:52:43.027+01:002015-07-08T22:52:43.027+01:00Oh, and I thought I'd made a mistake in naming...Oh, and I thought I'd made a mistake in naming 5 as the third prime, because I'd forgotten 2 (which is interesting - the only even prime number). But it turns out that 1 isn't counted, for some reason.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-87216485437135254982015-07-08T22:48:38.746+01:002015-07-08T22:48:38.746+01:00Liz, it's frustrating, because I'm fascina...Liz, it's frustrating, because I'm fascinated by languages, but know I'll never understand that one. <br /><br />Rog: I haven't tried cranberry pi. I have read the Amis, and I'm pretty sure he didn't cover set theory and Boolean algebra, so not accidental, probably. (Although Probability is a big theme in Information Theory, as it happens.)<br /><br />Richard, that's very probable, given that I've only ever done about six tweets. And it's too late to ask Ornette Coleman about randomness in music, though I'm sure he'd have had a lot to tell us.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201835677426254567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-82304273960933331952015-07-08T19:25:23.291+01:002015-07-08T19:25:23.291+01:00The chance of even your very best tweet being seen...The chance of even your very best tweet being seen again by human eyes is approximately zero.<br />Tweets are just bits.<br />I wonder if approximately zero is a random enough number to avoid the algo-rhythm? Perhaps this is the meeting point of music and mathematics.Richard WalkLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306430776956627549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-12397063156369163612015-07-08T15:40:14.786+01:002015-07-08T15:40:14.786+01:00I'm sure we had that Berry Paradox in a cracke...I'm sure we had that Berry Paradox in a cracker oner Christmas. May have been the Cranberry Paradox. Are you sure you haven't accidentally read The Information by Martin Amis?<br />(Liz is still focussed on comestibles also I see.)Roghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09430706557035189147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767918086420070312.post-52806616034895582932015-07-08T10:42:10.639+01:002015-07-08T10:42:10.639+01:00Maths is a largely foreign language to me too.
Th...Maths is a largely foreign language to me too.<br /><br />There was a trailer shown on TV a few years ago for a programme called "Educating Essex". I never saw the programme but I remember the lovely girl on the trail saying "What is pi? Where does it come from?" I very much identified with that young lady.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600329429654831610noreply@blogger.com