Still not dead (or king) - interlude
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I'm still thinking of how a person with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can fight back against the GOP, in hopes of making them sane again. Blogging is all I can think of. I'm not sure if I should try to blog elsewhere, or just say what I have to say here (or seeing if LongHairedWeirdo - my nom du blog - is available on LJ/DW). Any thoughts?
Interlude: At work, there are a collection of clever and cute bumper stickers. One bothered me for a long time... I finally figured it out recently, though.
It shows a picture of a brain, and a > (greater than) sign. On the right hand side, it had sigma (sum of) i = 1 to n, of (a picture of a bear)/n.
So:
brain picture > (sum from 1 to n) of (bearpicture)-sub-i, divided by n
Can you figure it out?
Hint: think cartoon
Interlude: At work, there are a collection of clever and cute bumper stickers. One bothered me for a long time... I finally figured it out recently, though.
It shows a picture of a brain, and a > (greater than) sign. On the right hand side, it had sigma (sum of) i = 1 to n, of (a picture of a bear)/n.
So:
brain picture > (sum from 1 to n) of (bearpicture)-sub-i, divided by n
Can you figure it out?
Hint: think cartoon
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Date: 2016-12-07 11:56 pm (UTC)Mind greater than the sum of its brewing?
(My head is not going anywhere useful right now.)
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Date: 2016-12-10 11:38 pm (UTC)(It only took almost exactly three days. This is why I don't enter contests.)
Bingo!
Date: 2016-12-11 08:58 pm (UTC)(See, if it was the sum of bear, times the counting number, from 1 to n (one bear, two more bears, 3 more bears...), well the sum from 1 to n of the counting numbers is n(n+1)/2. Divide by n, it becomes (n+1)/2.)
I wish I could remember how and when I suddenly thought "it's an AVERAGE of bears!" at which point, it hit me.
It's fun, though, and a lot better than a legend I heard of a riddle on a radio show.
They asked "What's the first thing you know?"
Well, technically, they asked "What's 'the first thing you know'" - the inner quotes are *essential*, as you'll see.
People phone in guess after guess for three solid days, from the philosophical to the comical, pun-inspired and not. No one (so the legend goes) was ready for the real answer.
(I promise you: this is not a rickroll and is work safe.)
https://youtu.be/NwzaxUF0k18?t=16
The legend continues, quite reasonably for a legend, that a police escort was required to get the DJs out of the radio station.
(If you don't want to click on the link, I'll link the answer to this reply.)
Re: Bingo!
Date: 2016-12-11 09:03 pm (UTC)So the answer to "'what's 'the first thing you know'?" is "old Jed's a millionaire."
[1] I'm 99% sure you know, or know of, the show. But since I work with people from other nations, I've gotten used to being certain that I explain some references. Apparently, I'm also used to people not randomly clicking links any more.
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Date: 2016-12-07 10:18 pm (UTC)FWIW, my political action is starting with blogging, but it's more of a study session. I want to make sure I understand clearly any other action I take. So, that's what's going on with my Support and Defend series.
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Date: 2016-12-07 10:42 pm (UTC)Do you know what you call it when you take a group of n values, sum them, and divide by n?
That's what finally tipped me off.
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Date: 2016-12-07 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-07 10:40 pm (UTC)Do you know what the sum of n values, divided by n, is called? e.g., 8 different values added together, and divided by 8?
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Date: 2016-12-07 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-07 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-12-09 07:19 pm (UTC)Thank you; you and
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Date: 2016-12-10 09:32 am (UTC)Now I'll go look for the name(s) in both journals, and add you to my "friends" lists :-)
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Date: 2016-12-09 07:16 pm (UTC)Thank you; you helped ensure I'd actually *do* something.
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Date: 2016-12-08 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-08 12:56 am (UTC)One of the additional tricky bits was realizing that it was "Bear-sub-i" not "bear * i" which could be "imaginary bear" or could be 1 bear when i = 1, 2 bears when i =2, etc..
But I couldn't think of how a brain is greater than a sum and quotient of imaginary bears, or now a brain is greater than (n+1)/2 bears.
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Date: 2016-12-08 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-09 07:18 pm (UTC)