jonp

Actually, 53^8 = 62,259,690,411,361 (not ..360)

Here's a collection of the shortest finish in many games: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/1112.html

"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes" - JBS Haldane "On being the right size"

http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html

It looks like there is a way to delete: select a section of text (using Shift and arrow keys) then press Enter.

"UK" doesn't seem to be shown on the map. I think "UK" should be replaced by "GB" in the URL.

I'd come across a similar suggestion in a political context. Saying "we want a fair tax system" is meaningless, because any political party could say that.

Saying "we want higher taxes on the wealthy to help the poor" or "we want lower taxes on the wealthy to encourage investment" is meaningful and distinctive.

The world record stands at 21.19 seconds

(http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory.html#cards-speed)

Here's a JavaScript/HTML5/Canvas version.

You can view the first 100 diagrams in a grid or view the diagram for the N of your choice. There's also an option to view an alternative diagram where the drawing starts with the smallest prime instead of the smallest.

http://jsfiddle.net/FEKX2/3/

A tweetable (140 character) single line of Python:

print '\n'.join((lambda x:(''.join(x) if x else str(i)))([w+'zz' for (n,w) in ((3,'Fi'),(5,'Bu'),(7,'Ba')) if i%n==0]) for i in range(1,100))

Although you also "enjoy" inflation of over 6% pa. In both the US and SA returns are lagging behind inflation by around 1% pa.

One (admittedly rare) counterexample is the late Sir Clement Freud:

"We remain together. I call her 'my first wife' to keep her on her toes."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5165998/Sir-Clement-Freud...

I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparent.

As someone who does have difficulty conceiving of ways to spend a cosmological-scale lifespan, how might you spend it?

I built http://www.birthdaysudoku.com - sudoku puzzles customised to include a date of birth.

http://birthdaysudoku.com - personalised sudoku puzzles.

I've never made any money from it, but I get a kick out of knowing that people in far-away places are using something I've made.

Thanks, I appreciate your help.

Clickable link: http://birthdaysudoku.com

Very nice. It looks great and seems really easy and intuitive to use.

A few suggestions:

1. When playing against the AI (on Chrome/Vista) after a move the piece briefly stays where I put it (not centred on the square; and with two pieces visible if I capture the opponent's piece). It only properly completes the move once the AI has moved.

2. When I promote a pawn it asks me to choose from a set of pieces which are black, even though I'm playing white. Might be nice to use piece icons of the same colour as the player.

3. Are there any open source AI players you could use? I'd be tempted to come back if there were some reasonable ones, but the current AI player is no challenge, even for a real amateur player like me.

I read it as "That's really cool ... and especially cool at such a young age". I'd say the age makes it a rarer and hence more newsworthy event.

This is great. Can anyone recommend a "DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)" for Windows? Preferably with at least a free trial version. Thanks.

I'd find this very helpful too.

How about the result concerning finding the roots of polynomials; that there are increasingly complex exact and explicit formulae as you go from linear to quartic, but it's impossible to find such formulae for quintics or higher.

I don't know if that fits your needs: it's elementary to state, but not exactly elementary to prove.

Also interesting to read patio11's comment (via the first link) on "salon scheduling" in light of launching Appointment Reminder.

Now updated to 12-5-1965.

Thanks for your comment.

I'm allowing for different date formats (dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy, yyyy-mm-dd) when making the puzzles. But it hadn't occurred to me that seeing a non-American date on the home page could be off-putting to Americans.

I guess I could try to recognize where people are from and show a location-specific example. Or maybe it's best to pick an ambiguous date ie one that works under both conventions. eg 12-5-1965 should do it.

Thanks again.

Thanks Ed. Yes, I'd started looking at eg Cafe Press for a way to produce physical goods like cards, mugs, mouse mats etc.

I hadn't thought of letters or the 16x16 versions. Also I guess if I do word-search and other puzzles then there's potentially enough to print a custom book(let) of puzzles.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Clickable link: http://www.birthdaysudoku.com/

I think that link should be http://themeforest.net/ ?

You could deal with "someone needs to be able to have the last word" without changing the shares of equity. The split of voting rights doesn't have to be the same as the split of financial ownership.

If there were similar named numbers for co-founders or co-investors who should be given a number of zero?