Own a piece of math history, for free! - Page 8

kladner · 2012-08-03, 00:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by kladner

ADDRESS RECEIVED 31 JUL 2012
PACKAGED 31 JUL 2012
MAILED 1 AUG 2012

Waiting with bated breath!

EDIT: .....or is that baited breadth?

richs · 2012-08-04, 05:01

Received today in California with thanks! Definitely not the furthest travelled button.

bcp19 · 2012-08-04, 20:25

Received today, many thanks!

markr · 2012-08-05, 10:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Which button has traveled (as the crow flies) the furthest yet?

Our coordinates are:

Latitude: 35.231200
Longitude: -90.777080

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaurV

That would be mine, almost sure, but I think it asked for directions from google maps, and it is lost somewhere on the way...

(edit: grr, I selected "walking" but something was wrong with the link, so I chose "by car" but disabled the highways)
(edit2: by the way, a math problem: how many km per hour does a sparrow walk? This is serious!)

I had a play with this distance calculator, and it says my button travelled 14,465km, about 500km further than LaurV's. Any mersenneforum folk even further from Xyzzy? (Hey, nucleon?)

I have no idea about sparrows' speed - I don't recall even seeing one for a few years - but like most small birds they probably hop rather than walk.

I also foolishly used that distance calculator to work out that my last child living at home will be 16,885km distant for most of the next twelve months, studying in Edinburgh. I didn't really want to know that. :sniff:

mognuts · 2012-08-05, 16:32

DONE

wblipp · 2012-08-05, 17:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by markr

I have no idea about sparrows' speed

It depends on whether it is carrying a coconut.

Xyzzy · 2012-08-05, 17:13

We want to send out a batch of buttons but we only have two queued up to send. We would much prefer to send them in batches of ten to save time.

So, ask for some buttons, eh?

Uncwilly · 2012-08-06, 03:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

We want to send out a batch of buttons but we only have two queued up to send. We would much prefer to send them in batches of ten to save time.

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~edson/

The Smithsonian might want one, too.

kladner · 2012-08-06, 23:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by kladner

Waiting with bated breath!

......

Received in Chicago. We are overjoyed! Many Thanks!

Xyzzy · 2012-08-12, 00:51

We want to send out a batch of buttons but we only have three queued up to send. We would much prefer to send them in batches of ten to save time.

So, ask for some buttons, eh?

Fish1: Jr unir ng yrnfg 50 zber gb tvir njnl!

E_tron · 2012-08-12, 12:34

I would like to put my name on the list. I'm glad this milestone won't go unnoticed; there are only a few days now... I recall mersenneforum.org coming online sometime around August 15th, 2002.

I initially signed up for mersenneforum on a AT form factor machine running a Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU, 64MB of EDO SIMM RAM, 420MB Samsung HDD, Windows 2000, and Internet Explorer 5. I think it took north of a year to finish it's first LL test. It was ancient then; it's a fossil now. This machine still running as a minor server and serial terminal for a PBX! It runs Trail Factoring for GIMPS (amazingly it still has idle CPU resources), a handful of VPN connections, and network attached storage. The only items replaced were it's ram, its external L2 cashe, fans, HDD, and its OS (switch to Debian 6). I still use its 10BASE2 ethernet adapter with a media converter. It's an absolute tank. I'm surprised the capacitors on the boards still work.

I don't want this milestone to go unnoticed. Happy Decennial mersenneforum.org!

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2012-08-04, 05:01	#79
richs "Rich" Aug 2002 Benicia, California 1318₁₀ Posts	Received today in California with thanks! Definitely not the furthest travelled button.

2012-08-04, 20:25	#80
bcp19 Oct 2011 7×97 Posts	Received today, many thanks!

2012-08-05, 16:32	#82
mognuts Sep 2008 Bromley, England 43 Posts	DONE

2012-08-05, 17:13	#84
Xyzzy "Mike" Aug 2002 2·23·179 Posts	We want to send out a batch of buttons but we only have two queued up to send. We would much prefer to send them in batches of ten to save time. So, ask for some buttons, eh?

2012-08-12, 00:51	#87
Xyzzy "Mike" Aug 2002 10000000101010₂ Posts	We want to send out a batch of buttons but we only have three queued up to send. We would much prefer to send them in batches of ten to save time. So, ask for some buttons, eh? Fish1: Jr unir ng yrnfg 50 zber gb tvir njnl!

2012-08-12, 12:34	#88
E_tron Sep 2002 Austin, TX 231₁₆ Posts	I would like to put my name on the list. I'm glad this milestone won't go unnoticed; there are only a few days now... I recall mersenneforum.org coming online sometime around August 15th, 2002. I initially signed up for mersenneforum on a AT form factor machine running a Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU, 64MB of EDO SIMM RAM, 420MB Samsung HDD, Windows 2000, and Internet Explorer 5. I think it took north of a year to finish it's first LL test. It was ancient then; it's a fossil now. This machine still running as a minor server and serial terminal for a PBX! It runs Trail Factoring for GIMPS (amazingly it still has idle CPU resources), a handful of VPN connections, and network attached storage. The only items replaced were it's ram, its external L2 cashe, fans, HDD, and its OS (switch to Debian 6). I still use its 10BASE2 ethernet adapter with a media converter. It's an absolute tank. I'm surprised the capacitors on the boards still work. I don't want this milestone to go unnoticed. Happy Decennial mersenneforum.org!