I had a meeting at our main office this afternoon and on the way there I stopped to pick up the book Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences.
In it it explains the birthday thing. Also it states the it takes 11 1/2 days for a million seconds to pass, 32 years for a billion, and Neanderthals died out a trillion years.
I’m sure we’ll find something to argue about soon enough cmu. We can dwell on this bit of goodwill for now.
By cmu on February 16, 2011 4:29 PM
lech: I pretty much just made up all this stuff I said out of thin air…
Well, to further prove the universe is out of joint, I’ll say, no, your explanations were spot-on and easy to understand.
Great. Now cmu you have to go to Montero’s and do a karaoke duet of Kumbaya with Lech. The rest of the Plusas will sway and humm.
OK…gotta run. My partner from Philly is arriving at about 7:00 so i gottta get home and clear up any “evidence” that may be laying around.
>Is this the part where we bury the hatchet? And I don’t mean in each other
Temporarily I suspect…but wouldn’t you prefer a gun? 😉
I had a meeting at our main office this afternoon and on the way there I stopped to pick up the book Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences.
In it it explains the birthday thing. Also it states the it takes 11 1/2 days for a million seconds to pass, 32 years for a billion, and Neanderthals died out a trillion years.
> She is a professor. She is Jamaician. She is also, tall and beatiful and looks like a model…
Can I meet her?
I am going to read all the probablility posts and then make some kind of bet tomorrow.
Hmm, I’d say Schrödinger’s cat meows and does not, simultaneously.
“Well, to further prove the universe is out of joint, I’ll say, no, your explanations were spot-on and easy to understand.”
Is this the part where we bury the hatchet? And I don’t mean in each other.