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Re: what am I?
Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 23:32
by torbanite
Jools wrote:OK, here's a new riddle from me. I am going to collect three of these fish tomorrow, yet each and only one of them is a concatenation of the base 10 representations of the first three primes, and thus a Smarandache-Wellin number!
You know.. I seriously considered posing a riddle involving Mersenne primes a week or two ago. I decided not to because I thought I'd get myself lynched..
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 00:11
by torbanite
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The interpretation of "concatenation" being "addition" in this instance...?
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 09:53
by MatsP
I know the answer, as I have seen them - I won't cheat.
Dave and Torbanite are wrong, tho'.
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 12:47
by panaque
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 13:09
by Richard B
MatsP wrote:I know the answer, as I have seen them - I won't cheat.
Dave and Torbanite are wrong, tho'.
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Mats
I might be wrong but i think i've seen them too.....
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 13:29
by MatsP
Richard B wrote:MatsP wrote:I know the answer, as I have seen them - I won't cheat.
Dave and Torbanite are wrong, tho'.
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Mats
I might be wrong but i think i've seen them too.....
Probably, as they were in the shop when we went together.
Panaque is on the right track, but it's not the right answer. It is not the species_id...
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 18:37
by L number Banana
Yikes!
The first three SW primes strung end to end (concatenation- computing?) is 237 but I'm lost on the first decimal primes being 2, 23 and 2357.
What the hey,
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Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 20:03
by torbanite
OK, I'll have another go...
The 235th entry in the list of
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Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 21:27
by MatsP
Perhaps the numbers aren't actually "in order"?
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 21:55
by Marc van Arc
Jools wrote: I have already collected three of these fish
Why don't you just update your "My Cats" ??
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 07:31
by torbanite
Perhaps the numbers aren't actually "in order"?
Don't they have to be in order if it is to be a Smarandache-Wha-dya-ma-callit number ?
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 08:36
by Jools
Yes, here's another couple of clues.
I'm a pleco with black and white spots.
I like large sandwiches, haunted houses and have a pal called Shaggy. I also tend to say "Ruh-huh" quite a lot.
Jools
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:00
by Martin S
Having followed this from day 1 - if I was 'playing', this would have been the first one I could have got...but only because of previous guesses!
Martin
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:33
by L number Banana
Having followed this from day 1 - if I was 'playing', this would have been the first one I could have got...but only because of previous guesses!
Martin
Never too late to start!
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:37
by L number Banana
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:43
by MatsP
On the right track, but not right. 3 is a prime number, but 6 and 8 are not.
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:55
by L number Banana
Argh, forgot about the primes bit...
133 has no pic so I don't know if it's spotted but 1,3,3?
edit, this guy too
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:57
by MatsP
Technically, 1 is not a prime number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:58
by L number Banana
It's 4:58 in the morning!
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 09:59
by MatsP
L number Banana wrote: It's 4:58 in the morning!
Excuses. ;)
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 10:00
by L number Banana
Excuses. ;)
Yup, absolutely. Primo, numero uno, she no count?
how bout my second guess L253?
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 10:08
by MatsP
L253 is the one - I didn't see your edit.
well, at least that's what I think it is, since Jools was pointing at a set of three of those in Wigan - BIG ones!, and 2, 3, 5 are the first three prime numbers, and scramble them, get 253.
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 10:11
by MatsP
torbanite wrote:Perhaps the numbers aren't actually "in order"?
Don't they have to be in order if it is to be a Smarandache-Wha-dya-ma-callit number ?
I do believe you are correct there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarandache-Wellin_prime
235 is a S-W number, but 253 isn't, as the 5 is in the wrong place.
Bad Jools!
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Mats
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 14:05
by Jools
Gee whizz - I am the bad cluemaster! Yup, you got it anyway and my new Scoobies are swimming around in Bathgate terrorising the cardinal tetras.
Jools
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 19:27
by L number Banana
Jools. lucky fish guy wrote:
my new Scoobies are swimming around in Bathgate terrorising the cardinal tetras.
But does the scenery stay the same with every terrorizing pass and do they hang out with the Green Phantom (L200)?
Previously Listed Catfish
New fish:
a) You'll find my name twice mentions the media of a certain non-math creative profession or guild.
b) The profession you need relates to a poisson number but not a catfish number.
c) Pickles, mushrooms and T-stakes.
d) A sinking feeling.
e) 961.48
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 22:18
by Marc van Arc
L number Banana wrote:
New fish:
a) You'll find my name twice mentions the media of a certain non-math creative profession or guild.
b) The profession you need relates to a poisson number but not a catfish number.
c) Pickles, mushrooms and T-stakes.
d) A sinking feeling.
e) 961.48
a) ?
b)
the Poisson process is a collection \scriptstyle\{ N(t) : t \geq 0 \} of random variables, where N(t) is the number of events that have occurred up to time t (starting from time 0). The number of events between time a and time b is given as N(b) − N(a) and has a Poisson distribution. Each realization of the process {N(t)} is a non-negative integer-valued step function that is non-decreasing, but for intuitive purposes it is usually easier to think of it as a point pattern on [0,∞) (the points in time where the step function jumps, i.e. the points in time where an event occurs). Way too difficult for me
c) sounds good, but still ?
d) a film
e) second or subsequent offenses
In short: not yet found, but confident
Re: what am I?
Posted: 24 Apr 2009, 23:15
by L number Banana
I'm thrilled! no one got it right away!!
Cool.
Marc:
a) ?
b) the Poisson process is a collection \scriptstyle\{ N(t) : t \geq 0 \} of random variables, where N(t) is the number of events that have occurred up to time t (starting from time 0). The number of events between time a and time b is given as N(b) − N(a) and has a Poisson distribution. Each realization of the process {N(t)} is a non-negative integer-valued step function that is non-decreasing, but for intuitive purposes it is usually easier to think of it as a point pattern on [0,∞) (the points in time where the step function jumps, i.e. the points in time where an event occurs). Way too difficult for me
c) sounds good, but still ?
d) a film
e) second or subsequent offenses
In short: not yet found, but confident
a) find the profession, find the fish
b) correct and the profession related media's Poisson ratio is.37 This is how it relates :"...is the ratio of the contraction or transverse strain (normal to the applied load), to the extension or axial strain (in the direction of the applied load)."
c)That stake is no spelling error, you'd break your teeth on it.
d)Oh. Didn't know that. Other relevant actions relating again to the profession: chasing
e) a certain degree of heat
Re: what am I?
Posted: 25 Apr 2009, 04:14
by L number Banana
Clue additions
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a) You'll find my name twice mentions
the media of a certain non-math creative profession or guild.
Profession probably started in 770 BC. The media referred to has been around since the big bang or so. Media: part of the common name, part of the species name..
b) The profession you need relates to a poisson number but not a catfish number..
(.37)is the ratio of the contraction or transverse strain (normal to the applied load), to the extension or axial strain (in the direction of the applied load)." If the professional ignores this, poof there goes all your hard work!
c) Pickles, mushrooms and T-stakes.
Profession uses these as well :Alum, boric acid, sulfuric acid
d) A sinking feeling.
Sinking, chasing, raising, dapping, folding, forming
e) 961.48
degrees c. If the professional ignores this, poof there goes all your hard work!
f) for the key profession, school not required, master required.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 25 Apr 2009, 06:12
by L number Banana
It's elemental really, we've had much tougher ones on the table.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 25 Apr 2009, 08:47
by torbanite
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