Hi Dave,

you might be right!
grin...

Cheers

Felix

P.S.: I was like that before... I'm afraid that IS 'normal' for me.
Only for certain values of 'normal', of course.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "David Bullions" <davebullions@...>
Gesendet: 15.12.08 10:54:00
An: George Young <lbgc@...>
Betreff: RE: [lbgc] Re: Age


Felix

You really need to get out more ;-)

Dave

To: lbgc@...
From: felixkrul@...
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:25:39 +0000
Subject: [lbgc] Re: Age

Hi Alan,

besides from a 'happy birthday', I have a better one than changing
the number system on the fly...: You reduced the angle!

hae?

Well, as we all know: 9*6 = 42, right?

If you think of a scalar product, this is actually possible:
Let's say, you have a scalar product of two vectors A=9 and B=6 with
the lengths of a=9 and b=6.
Then the scalar product would be
A*B = a*b*cos(alpha)
where alpha = angle between A and B.
As we define A*B = 42, this means that the 'Douglas Adams world
answer angle' would be
alpha = arccos(A*B/a*b) = arccos(42/54) = 38.94244 Degrees
If we now say that the year before the equation is (completely
arbitrarily, of course)
9*6 = 41
then the angle would be
arccos(41/54) =
40.60106 degrees
Therefore you reduced your angle by more than one degree!
qed

cheers

Felix

'Very strange people, physicists. In m,y experience, the ones who
aren't actually dead are in some way very ill' (D. Adams)

--- In lbgc@..., Allan <allan@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, that is of course the answer.
>
> As a silver lining, my age is now the same as the answer to Life,
the
> Universe and Everything :-)
>
> Thanks for replying!
> Allan
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On 13 Dec 2008, at 22:26, "Founder." <bobroscow@...> wrote:
>
> > I'll have a stab at it. Just got to use up a few more words
first, so
> > that my stab at it comes lower down than the first sentence or
two, so
> > that anybody will only see my attempt if they click for the full
text,
> > blah, blah, that should do it.
> >
> > Erm, maybe you're using the sextidecimal (16-imal) system? So
that 41
> > became 29? So now you've just become twenty-ten rather than
thirty?
> > No?
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > In lbgc@..., "Allan Mertner" <allan@> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wednesday this week, I could truthfully claim to be 29 years
old.
> > > Friends would sometimes look a little dubiously at me at this,
but I
> > > was mostly able to convince people of the truth of it.
> > >
> > > Alas, on Thursday the 11th, things changed. I am not now 30 as
you
> > > might have expected - I am in fact 42. Gone are the sweet
twenties,
> > > and the mid-forties with all that entails (beer belly, midlife
> > crisis,
> > > stomach ulcer, not enough time for boardgames and teenage
kids)
> > loom.
> > >
> > > How can this all have happened to me, so quickly?
> > >
> > > Any takers?
> > > Allan
> > >
> >
> >
>

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