anyoe know what the name of this sequence is?
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377...
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377...
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sorry, i'm sure i was busy with something else at the time.
here are some more:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055 596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903 600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247 371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219 608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100031378387528865875332083814206171776691473 0359825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778185778053217122680661300192787661119590921642019
i'd go for more, but i doubt the owners would appreciate the bandwidth suck.
Many years ago I was told that the decimal point should be preceeding the fractional number, and every preceeding number.
103.2 would be correct as 1.0.3.2
It's redundant and silly to me, but has anyone else heard of this?
It's just that this thread woke up that old kernel of info, and I'm curious now.
103.2 would be correct as 1.0.3.2
It's redundant and silly to me, but has anyone else heard of this?
It's just that this thread woke up that old kernel of info, and I'm curious now.
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German: Dreiundzwanzigter April zweitausendfünf/23.3.2005
French: 23 avril, 2005
Japanese: 2005.04.23
How it's written depends most likely in all languages on how the date is said out loud.
To me, putting the month before the day is confusing ONLY when it's all written in numbers, and I'll never get used to that. It's not an issue if the name of the month is written or spoken. There is no good reason, other than convention, why the month HAS to come before the day in English. You can say "the 23rd of April, 2005." I suppose it sounds a bit antiquated.
Generally, when dealing with a date expressed only in numbers, it's the least confusing to stick with an order form smallest to largest or vice versa: day, month, year, or, year, month, day.
PS: Many US forms do now use "day, month, year" to make the confusion complete.
Ah, but do you realize all your examples (including the one with "0") use only ten numbers (or in the one case letters)?quote:
Originally posted by TallPaul:
Only if zero is something and we are counting eleven (items), not counting to ten.quote:
Originally posted by Rick in PA:
But wouldn't that be counting to 11?
So long as I count evenly (in 2's, 5's, etc.) and in the same direction, what matter how many counts I accumulate getting to 10. I am taking the word "to" in the sense of go to New York City. There are infinite ways to get there if you consider every possible combination of routes and can change a route by looping through a drugstore parking lot. How is this for counting "to" ten in ten increments:
-8, -6, -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
Now if instead of "count to ten" we say "count ten," then I could go A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J or I could go (say we were counting cars passing by and already had counted 47 since the top of the hour):
48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57.
That is counting ten too. So to be precise, the sequence:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
should be requested as "count ten increments from one to ten." Well that example only has nine increments as we lstarted from one, but I believe we imply starting from zero in such counting.
Note to self, start writing dates using the month abbreviation to avoid the whole month before day / day before month controversy.
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You guys crack me up. This is actually a fun thread.
I prefer day month year. i also prefer military style 26APR05, but then again I also prefer the 24 clock.
using commas instead of decimals confuses the heck out of me. dang europeans!
fractional measurements bug me too....
using commas instead of decimals confuses the heck out of me. dang europeans!
fractional measurements bug me too....
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Yeah, 39/47 of a hogshead are really annoying.
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