Suggestions for the "Classic Summary" page

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33

Then i = (5280 feet/mile)(12 inches/foot) = 63,360 inches/mile. I actually learned this by heart after a couple of weeks of physics (the course, not a series of high colonics...)



Which would, for all intents and purposes, be a marble. Though it might make a game of Dungeons and Dragons that much more interesting.

Many THX for the EDDYfication.

Now what is a rod/pole/perch?

David

PS There are some folk don't know what 1/6 th of a gill is.

[Christenson]

As for that die, well, go ahead and just use the 20 sided die from D&D....and toss it 4 times. If the sequence of such numbers (itnerpreted base 20) comes up 0,0,0,0, place the milestone...if it ocmes up above 63,360, repeat the sequence.

Now, if your hands get callussed doing that, and you decide it's better to ask the computer, I'm pretty sure you will end up with a discrete poisson distribution.....well-approximated by the continuous poisson distribution which is what we meant anyway...and it will be reasonably approximated by a continuous normal distribution of the total number of the number of millstones. If I was a decent math student, I'd be giving the standard deviation here.

@NBTarheel:
How were you planning on adjusting the probability that that marble (whch CAN'T be a regular polyhedron in 3-space, since we ARE on a computational number theory forum) would come up with the "0" on top to 1:63,630 ?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

I have suggested that, or once a day and provide on it the time run. Same thing with the standard millstones page.

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpos...71&postcount=6

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

@NBTarheel:
How were you planning on adjusting the probability that that marble (whch CAN'T be a regular polyhedron in 3-space, since we ARE on a computational number theory forum) would come up with the "0" on top to 1:63,630 ?

Ever played "pencil cricket"?

Just shave it on 63360 sides.

Might need to invent a few more ways to be "Out" though.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpos...71&postcount=6

Yep.
Already taken that on board.
Anyone else out there agree with us?

David

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

As for that die, well, go ahead and just use the 20 sided die from D&D....and toss it 4 times. If the sequence of such numbers (itnerpreted base 20) comes up 0,0,0,0, place the milestone...if it ocmes up above 63,360, repeat the sequence.

Now, if your hands get callussed doing that, and you decide it's better to ask the computer, I'm pretty sure you will end up with a discrete poisson distribution.....well-approximated by the continuous poisson distribution which is what we meant anyway...and it will be reasonably approximated by a continuous normal distribution of the total number of the number of millstones. If I was a decent math student, I'd be giving the standard deviation here.

@NBTarheel:
How were you planning on adjusting the probability that that marble (whch CAN'T be a regular polyhedron in 3-space, since we ARE on a computational number theory forum) would come up with the "0" on top to 1:63,630 ?

"If I was a decent math student".
Do I detect a touch of false modesty here?

Much of my counting/probability nous comes from a
love of "statistical mechanics" (among a few other things)
at Oxford.

Whether you keep the energy, temperature or number of particles
constant depends on the simplest/most relevant way of getting the answer.

If you argue with that, you are in Maxwell's Demon country.
(Great Man BTW)

If you find a millstone from Chigago nunbered N in the manner I
suggested, the expected distance from Chicago would be N +/- sqrN miles.
However, if the distance from Chicago to LA were 2001 miles
and you placed 2000 millstones "randomly" between them, then
numbered them in order, the error in the the distance would
diminish as you approached LA.

David

[davieddy]

Carbon 60?
60 vertices???
What on earth might that structure be?

He'd obviously never seen the world cup football in Mexico 1970,
or built a truncated icosohedron in his sad life.

Wonder if he had heard of Euler's F + V = E - 2
Or even that 5 times 12 = 60
?

David

[Christenson]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Ever played "pencil cricket"?

Just shave it on 63360 sides.

Might need to invent a few more ways to be "Out" though.

Never played "pencil cricket", but I like the idea of just rolling an extruded regular polygon -- a cylinder with flat sides....wonder why that never showed up in D&D?

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

an extruded regular polygon -- a cylinder with flat sides

More usually described as a prism?

[Christenson]

It's only a prism if there are three sides....the rest are "rod" shapes....

[retina]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Ever played "pencil cricket"?

Just shave it on 63360 sides.

Or make it a proper cylinder with the only flat sections being at the ends (like a standard tin can) and adjust the length so that there is a 1 in 63360 chance it will land on one of the flat ends.

Originally Posted by davieddy

Anyone else out there agree with us?

Yes, it doesn't need to be a live update. Once per day would be perfectly adequate.