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Post by celyn on Apr 10, 2014 22:33:48 GMT -1
That's my new word for today. Hell, I think it can be my new word for the year. And apparently it means "Square of Squares Squaredly Squared". Being kind, I just thought I'd share it with you all. I'm not totally bonkers: it's just that I was trying to remember the name of the Welsh guy who invented the 'equals' = sign, than got sidetracked by this great word he made. Scrabble, anyone?
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Post by ozneil on Apr 11, 2014 5:05:22 GMT -1
Another new word for you
GOOGOL 1 followed by 100 zeros
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Post by notanimby on Apr 11, 2014 5:30:24 GMT -1
Another new word for you GOOGOL 1 followed by 100 zeros I've seen that somewhere else Oz but cannae remember where - dunno why ah cannae remember as its not exactly in common usage As fur Celyn, jeezo you need to get oot merr
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Post by celyn on Apr 11, 2014 14:12:59 GMT -1
Aha! I knew about the Googol number. I think it was in my "Every Child's Big Book of Smartarse Factoids" when I was at primary school.
Not a good way to be popular.
Teacher: now, class, what is the biggest number you can think of?
(I think we were meant to say 'a hundred' or something - god alone knows}
Celyn: Please, Miss, a Googol, Miss.
Teacher: Never heard of that. Don't be silly.
Celyn: BUT. Butbutbut, Miss. Grumblegrumblegrumble.
Now, if she had asked how far I could count, the answer would probably be 9 or 10, and still is. 9, I think, 'cos I need one finger to count all the other ones.
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Post by bormes on Apr 11, 2014 16:55:00 GMT -1
Celyn!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahaha.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 0:07:49 GMT -1
And the name of the Welsh guy that invented = was? Did you find it out, Celyn, or got too sidetracked by marvellous word?
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Post by celyn on Apr 12, 2014 2:02:31 GMT -1
This is the guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_RecordeRobert Recorde. See, I remembered being amused that the guy who invented the 'equals' sign died bankrupt and in debt, as I had read it in a book by Jan Morris long ago. I hadn't realised he was a real hardcore maths guy, though. I had just assumed he was some wee number-counting clerk who hit on a useful shorthand.
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Post by ozneil on Apr 12, 2014 3:39:24 GMT -1
This is the guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_RecordeRobert Recorde. See, I remembered being amused that the guy who invented the 'equals' sign died bankrupt and in debt, as I had read it in a book by Jan Morris long ago. I hadn't realised he was a real hardcore maths guy, though. I had just assumed he was some wee number-counting clerk who hit on a useful shorthand. I think it was that should be famous Scot Michael Scott that introduced 0 (zero) into mathematics
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Post by peony on Apr 16, 2014 21:58:03 GMT -1
Zero has been called naught, tziphra, sipos, tsiphron, rota, circulus, galgal, theca, null, and figura nihili. Interesting my dad always called it naught. However sometimes he called it ought or possibly aught.
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Post by ozneil on Apr 16, 2014 22:43:25 GMT -1
Zero has been called naught, tziphra, sipos, tsiphron, rota, circulus, galgal, theca, null, and figura nihili. Interesting my dad always called it naught. However sometimes he called it ought or possibly aught. before Scott there was no figure "0" in roman or arabic numerals. He was a famous mathematician who professored (if there is such a word) at Italian & Spanish Universitiews Turin & Toledo amongst others in late 1200s BTW he is also credited for splitting Eildon Hills on the borders. From Wiki Scot was a typical example of the polyglot wandering scholar of the Middle Ages - a churchman who knew Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. When he was about 50, Frederick II attracted him to his brilliant court in the Two Sicilies, and at the instigation of the emperor he superintended (along with Hermannus Alemannus) a fresh translation of Aristotle and the Arabian commentaries from Arabic into Latin. There exist translations by Scot himself of the Historia animalium, of De anima and of De coelo, along with the commentaries of Averroes upon them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2014 23:31:52 GMT -1
before Scott there was no figure "0" in roman or arabic numerals. He was a famous mathematician who professored (if there is such a word) at Italian & Spanish Universitiews Turin & Toledo amongst others in late 1200s From Wiki Scot was a typical example of the polyglot wandering scholar of the Middle Ages - a churchman who knew Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. When he was about 50, Frederick II attracted him to his brilliant court in the Two Sicilies, and at the instigation of the emperor he superintended (along with Hermannus Alemannus) a fresh translation of Aristotle and the Arabian commentaries from Arabic into Latin. There exist translations by Scot himself of the Historia animalium, of De anima and of De coelo, along with the commentaries of Averroes upon them. Hmmm. A tad Lost in Translation there, Oz
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Post by ozneil on Apr 16, 2014 23:38:05 GMT -1
Which bit?
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Post by peony on Apr 17, 2014 13:54:35 GMT -1
There was no figure "0" but the concept was there.
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Post by ozneil on Apr 17, 2014 21:16:07 GMT -1
There was no figure "0" but the concept was there. Absolutely correct. Legend has it he got the idea while working as a sports reporter under the quill name of Mike the Majic on "Ye Glasgae Daily Scribe" while reporting on The 1285 All Black tour of Scotland he got scunnered scratching All Blacks XL wur Laddies Zilch, zero, zip, nul so he decided to use OH FUR FOXACHE contracted to OFF but as this was rather cumbersome it was contracted to 0 as it is today. Even today Weejies use the tern FUR FOXACHE when watching their Favourite sport losing as usual.
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Post by celyn on Apr 23, 2014 1:58:25 GMT -1
There was no figure "0" but the concept was there. Absolutely correct. Legend has it he got the idea while working as a sports reporter under the quill name of Mike the Majic on "Ye Glasgae Daily Scribe" while reporting on The 1285 All Black tour of Scotland he got scunnered scratching All Blacks XL wur Laddies Zilch, zero, zip, nul so he decided to use OH FUR FOXACHE contracted to OFF but as this was rather cumbersome it was contracted to 0 as it is today. Even today Weejies use the tern FUR FOXACHE when watching their Favourite sport losing as usual. But we don't want foxes to ache: we are fond of our foxy friends. As for the favourite sport being 'losing as usual', well, yeah. We do it so well, having had a lot of practice at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Oh wait, I think we sometimes win at curling, or sliding down mountains or something. But not very often. It would be wrong to spoil the image.
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