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RE: Did you know...?
April 21, 2016 at 5:59 pm
...that the
flavoured potato crisp was invented in Ireland? Prior to Tayto, everybody had to add the salt and vinegar themselves?
Also Ireland also has the only
non-human eurovision contestant?
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April 21, 2016 at 6:17 pm
Things invented in Northern Ireland:
-First practical guided missile.
-Defibrillators.
-Colour photography.
-Ejector seats.
-Your humble narrator.
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April 21, 2016 at 7:43 pm
...that all sturgeons, dolphins, porpoises and whales caught in British waters are the personal property of Elizabeth II?
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April 21, 2016 at 8:22 pm
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RE: Did you know...?
April 21, 2016 at 8:47 pm
(April 21, 2016 at 7:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ...that all sturgeons, dolphins, porpoises and whales caught in British waters are the personal property of Elizabeth II?
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RE: Did you know...?
April 22, 2016 at 4:56 am
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For people like me who find maths sexy:
Did you know that if you keep on adding up this sequence:
1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + ...
for enough terms, the sum will eventually exceed any number you like? Seems very counter-intuitive huh? How can those fractions ever add up to a million? Because fractions are my friends.
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RE: Did you know...?
April 22, 2016 at 4:59 am
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To follow up on rob's example:
if you instead take turns adding and subtracting these numbers in this order,
1/2 - 1/3 + 1/4 - 1/5 + 1/6 - 1/7 ...
you approach a finite number (roughly 0.31).
But the kicker is, you can get *any result you like* out of that very same sum of numbers simply by rearranging it. That's something I found perverse when I first heard it, but it's true.
It's so counter-intuitive because the result only changes if you do an infinite number of swaps, something one cannot easily imagine.
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