5=4, ..., 35=2, 14=?

[xilman]

Originally Posted by davieddy

I'm surprised to hear of this gap in your omniscience.
I wonder what Hardy would make of it

I've never claimed to be omniscient. I've often claimed to be working towards omniscience, a different matter entirely.


Paul

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by xilman

The fist number

Any relation to Ernst's wide filed camera? ;)

David

PS searched the Smilies for a wink, but couldn't find it.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by xilman

I've never claimed to be omniscient. I've often claimed to be working towards omniscience, a different matter entirely.


Paul

This ambition was perhaps more realizable in the age of
Leonardo or Sir Isaac.

Your "omniscience" was supposed to be a sort of backhanded compliment

David

PS Just checking:
You did get the Hardy reference didn't you?

"Here go I my name is Jowett....etc"

[xilman]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Any relation to Ernst's wide filed camera? ;)

David

PS searched the Smilies for a wink, but couldn't find it.

Ernst's was more in the nature of a tyop, whereas I omitted a caracter from "first".

Paul

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by xilman

Ernst's was more in the nature of a tyop, whereas I omitted a caracter from "first".

Paul

I've visited some sites where omitting the r might be crucial.
Say no more.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by davieddy

PS Just checking:
You did get the Hardy reference didn't you?

"Here go I my name is Jowett....etc"

I phoned my erstwhile bridge partner, computer buff
and friend. (ne 1957 (note the absence of a second e)
Chemistry St Catherine's, and generally proud of his
search for omniscience) to make sure he knew what
I was referring to.

I was (secretly pleased) shocked to hear that the name Hardy
meant nothing to him, and neither did Jowett, even though I
reminded him that there is (or at least was) a road called
Jowett Walk just outside Cats.

I've tried to Google chapter and verse on the verbatim quote
without success. But my father (Exeter 1921) loved it:

Here go I my name is Jowett
There's no knowledge but I know it
I'm the Master of this College,
What I don't know is not knowledge

David

[wblipp]

Originally Posted by davieddy

I've tried to Google chapter and verse on the verbatim quote

There seem to be a lot of variations on this theme. I liked these:

http://www.jowettjupiter.co.uk/jupindx.htm

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by wblipp

There seem to be a lot of variations on this theme. I liked these:

http://www.jowettjupiter.co.uk/jupindx.htm

Thanks. I'd got it more or less verbatim, but your link failed to
cure my nagging disatisfaction with the ditty: the repetition of
the word "knowledge". It slightly diminishes the impact of the punchline.


PS
Having pondered it again, "know" also occurs twice and the
humour lies in the reversal of the order between lines 2 and 4.

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

They got it from the radio.

5=4
7=17
9=25
35=2

14=?

Ah, HA! It was on the weekend PBS puzzle program (and I may have barely semi-remembered that when I footnoted #2), and they gave the answer this morning.

Hint 1: It is indeed a commutative relation. 4=5 just as 5=4.

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Hint 2: It's not a math problem.

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Hint 3: It's not about the spelling of the numbers' names in any language, either.

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Hint 4: It's about people.

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Hint 5: ... historically-important people.

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Hint 6: It's U.S.-specific.

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by xilman

The fi[r]st number is the number of runs gained so far in the game. The second is the number of wickets that have fallen (i.e. the number of batsmen dismissed for some reason, such as being caught).

Hey, thanks!

17 for 4 means that four batsmen have already been given out and a total of 17 runs have been scored at this point. Not a very good score, to be honest.

Not a very good example of scores I'd heard!

Further information on the rules of cricket may be found here http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/the-rules-of-cricket

Thank you, Paul.

Originally Posted by 99.94

Ahem! It depends where you live. 2 for 102 is exactly how it would be put in Australasia (at least).

But, of course! Thank you, too, all 100%.

[10metreh]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

<snip>

14=32.

They're the numbers (listed by date they first took office) of the US presidents who had the same first names. So 4=5 refers to the 4th and 5th presidents, both of whom were called James. 14=32 is Franklin Pierce and Franklin D. Roosevelt.