Hummy Arms Word Game v4.0

[Black Hole]

That's a matter of opinion. "Today", "to-day", and "to day" have all been standard spelling at one time or another, and therefore remain valid.

 

[Trev]

So minus 10 to prpr?

 

[prpr]

It wasn't a play or a challenge to a play, so no.

 

[antipodean]

I didn't spot that, but I don't think a gentleman's challenge under the new rule should be subject to points claiming.

OK, let's have an intermission before v5.0. I'll have a think what new and even more torturous scheme I can devise (if nobody else comes up with something in the mean time). The points were fun but they were a disincentive to new players - maybe we should have a mechanism where newcomers get awarded the current average score, I'll need to think about that one!

I don't follow what your challenge is about. The previous post was based on a challenge that resulted in me having -23. So I posted a valid entry making it -20. My last post as i understand it is a valid word as well, making me -17.

 

[Black Hole]

I didn't notice the subsequent play when I was checking back. My fault, as was pointed out.

 

[prpr]

I just don't understand that. Try to explain relativity instead.

General Relativity or Special Relativity? Special Relativity is quite easy: it derives from the consequences of assuming the speed of light is constant for all observers, regardless of their relative velocities, and then verifying that the predicted consequences correspond with what is observed in reality. General Relativity assumes that gravitation is actually a field throughout space that is distorted by mass and causes accelerations on bodies within it (including light).

You sound just like Bernard.
Do I assume (or presume?) that you didn't attend the LSE?

 

[prpr]

(What do you get if you multiply six by nine?)

Have you ever tried it in base 13? (Unlucky for some? I wonder if DA ever thought of that?)

 

[EEPhil]

Have you ever tried it in base 13? (Unlucky for some? I wonder if DA ever thought of that?)

Who uses base 13? DA wrote Deep Thought's answer as "Forty-two". Can you call 42 base 13 forty-two? I suppose you can, but in my book you'd be wrong.

 

[prpr]

Who uses base 13?

Does that matter?

Can you call 42 base 13 forty-two?

42₁₃ = 54₁₀ = 6 x 9
What else would you call it?

 

[Black Hole]

Ten years on??!! (double-interrobang)

What's all this archaeology?

 

[prpr]

What's all this archaeology?

One thing led to another from searching.

 

[EEPhil]

Does that matter?

42₁₃ = 54₁₀ = 6 x 9
What else would you call it?

Fifty-four or four two (base 13) but not forty-two.

 

[prpr]

Do you apply the same rules to hexadecimal (obviously if the number doesn't include A-F) e.g. when reading out a MAC address?

 

[EEPhil]

Do you apply the same rules to hexadecimal (obviously if the number doesn't include A-F) e.g. when reading out a MAC address?

Yes.

Not sure why. Was I taught it? Not sure. I know I've had problems with woolly thinking when dealing with user identification codes on a Vax/VMS system. UICs are octal numbers. [301,1] - if I say three-hundred-and-one I think decimal. If I say three-oh-one I'm reminded it isn't.

I'm inconsistent though. IP addresses, eg my Aura 192.168.1.12 one-nine-two, one-six-eight, one, twelve (eh?). hummy.tv 167.233.26.72 one-six-seven, two-three-three, twenty-six, seventy-two. Maybe I don't like numbers greater than 99.

 

[Black Hole]

one-nine-two, one-six-eight, one, twelve (eh?)

I see nothing wrong with that.

 

[EEPhil]

I see nothing wrong with that.

Other than it's inconsistent.

 

[Black Hole]

The numbers in an IP address are decimal representations of an 8-bit binary field. Therefore 12 really is twelve. If you are complaining about 192 being pronounced "one nine two", I think we all do that!

 

[EEPhil]

I'm complaining about my own inconstancy in saying IP addresses. Either I should say/think one hundred and ninety two & twelve or one-nine-two & one-two. Instead I mix it all up.

 

[Black Hole]

Just sayin' I'm in the same camp.