I can't stop laughing

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

riadach wrote:

Well, I think technically pidgin languages are business/trade languages, not home languages (pidgin actually being Chinese pidgin for business). When they become home languages, they are called creoles, this usually happens when a member of one community marries a member of another. The creole miraculously spreads to becoming the default language of both communities, in a manner almost reminiscent of evolution. Creoles and pidgins often retain the grammatical structure of one language and the vocabulary of another.

You would be create in suggesting most languages are creoles. I imagine the differences between Welsh and Irish are due to the different languages of the substrate culture that the celts encountered when they arrived. Scots' Gaelic certainly has pidgin elements. It contains a lot of Norse vocabulary, Irish vocabulary, but also has a Brythonic verbal system of sorts. Manx seems to be an Irish-Norse Creole, most of its vocab is Irish, but certain grammatical elements, such as its refusal to use a copula in identifying sentences (grr splitters), are Norse. Likewise, English is a Creole of French and Anglo-Saxon elements, French dominating some of the grammar (notice the -s plural, syntax) anglo-saxon other elements (i.e. the auxiliary verbal system for the future tense and conditional mood), and both contribute greatly to the vocabulary. There are Norse elements to be found as well.

You might be interested in looking at Ealadha Dúthchais It will extend and combine all the languages.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

Do they only play the once, or do they each have to play all the others ?

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Oh, I just though that it would be right up your street with all the numbers and problem-solving. I preferred debating competitions and student council elections myself. They were more visceral and exciting than dry mathematics. Needless to say, your questions here have neutralised my animus towards the subject!

Quote :

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

Is that a trick question? It's an odd number so pairs can't be made with all of them so the competition can't occur.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Oh, I just though that it would be right up your street with all the numbers and problem-solving. I preferred debating competitions and student council elections myself. They were more visceral and exciting than dry mathematics. Needless to say, your questions here have neutralised my animus towards the subject!

Quote :

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

Is that a trick question? It's an odd number so pairs can't be made with all of them so the competition can't occur.

It is an example of cleverness in Mathematics, a concept I don't personally have much time for. It is based on a radio interview I heard with a Maths Professor in UCC, who ran Maths Olympiads. The solution is simple. Since there can only be one winner, and every other contestent must loose, the number of games to be played is one less than the total. When he was explaining this however he did not elude to the fact that it is an example of a much more significant computational principle, namely by the completion and non-completion, one of the simplest of which is evaluating the area of initially regular geometric regions with regular geometric regions cut out from them.

I'm sure that cf can find an example.

One of my issues with the way mathematics is currently taught in our schools is that it seems to depend on an un-trained cleverness. Personally I was never that clever, but I did work. For me it was practice which won the day.

Anyway I have to go.

p.s. I am trying to place some rather valuable material in the cloud. Does anyone know of a secure site in Ireland, preferrably in Co. Cork.

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Oh, I just though that it would be right up your street with all the numbers and problem-solving. I preferred debating competitions and student council elections myself. They were more visceral and exciting than dry mathematics. Needless to say, your questions here have neutralised my animus towards the subject!

Quote :

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

Is that a trick question? It's an odd number so pairs can't be made with all of them so the competition can't occur.

It is an example of cleverness in Mathematics, a concept I don't personally have much time for. It is based on a radio interview I heard with a Maths Professor in UCC, who ran Maths Olympiads. The solution is simple. Since there can only be one winner, and every other contestent must loose, the number of games to be played is one less than the total. When he was explaining this however he did not elude to the fact that it is an example of a much more significant computational principle, namely by the completion and non-completion, one of the simplest of which is evaluating the area of initially regular geometric regions with regular geometric regions cut out from them.

I'm sure that cf can find an example.

One of my issues with the way mathematics is currently taught in our schools is that it seems to depend on an un-trained cleverness. Personally I was never that clever, but I did work. For me it was practice which won the day.

Anyway I have to go.

p.s. I am trying to place some rather valuable material in the cloud. Does anyone know of a secure site in Ireland, preferrably in Co. Cork.

There's a nice little island in the harbour...?

cactus flower wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Oh, I just though that it would be right up your street with all the numbers and problem-solving. I preferred debating competitions and student council elections myself. They were more visceral and exciting than dry mathematics. Needless to say, your questions here have neutralised my animus towards the subject!

Quote :

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

Is that a trick question? It's an odd number so pairs can't be made with all of them so the competition can't occur.

It is an example of cleverness in Mathematics, a concept I don't personally have much time for. It is based on a radio interview I heard with a Maths Professor in UCC, who ran Maths Olympiads. The solution is simple. Since there can only be one winner, and every other contestent must loose, the number of games to be played is one less than the total. When he was explaining this however he did not elude to the fact that it is an example of a much more significant computational principle, namely by the completion and non-completion, one of the simplest of which is evaluating the area of initially regular geometric regions with regular geometric regions cut out from them.

I'm sure that cf can find an example.

One of my issues with the way mathematics is currently taught in our schools is that it seems to depend on an un-trained cleverness. Personally I was never that clever, but I did work. For me it was practice which won the day.

Anyway I have to go.

p.s. I am trying to place some rather valuable material in the cloud. Does anyone know of a secure site in Ireland, preferrably in Co. Cork.

There's a nice little island in the harbour...?

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

I had forgotten about that. I don't know if I was the one to originate it, but I definitely created a flash image.

Howdy, TGOC!

How de do de

Did you win Maths Olympiads and the like as a young man? Did you ever enter the Rowan Hamilton Maths Challenge? If you did, I imagine that you won.

No. Didn't like the logic, it seems to be dependent on people being smart. Practical mathematics is more my area.

Oh, I just though that it would be right up your street with all the numbers and problem-solving. I preferred debating competitions and student council elections myself. They were more visceral and exciting than dry mathematics. Needless to say, your questions here have neutralised my animus towards the subject!

Quote :

Here is an example. if there are 76892345618634267, players in a global tiddly winks match, and they play a pair at a time. How many games will be played.

Is that a trick question? It's an odd number so pairs can't be made with all of them so the competition can't occur.

It is an example of cleverness in Mathematics, a concept I don't personally have much time for. It is based on a radio interview I heard with a Maths Professor in UCC, who ran Maths Olympiads. The solution is simple. Since there can only be one winner, and every other contestent must loose, the number of games to be played is one less than the total. When he was explaining this however he did not elude to the fact that it is an example of a much more significant computational principle, namely by the completion and non-completion, one of the simplest of which is evaluating the area of initially regular geometric regions with regular geometric regions cut out from them.

I'm sure that cf can find an example.

One of my issues with the way mathematics is currently taught in our schools is that it seems to depend on an un-trained cleverness. Personally I was never that clever, but I did work. For me it was practice which won the day.

Anyway I have to go.

p.s. I am trying to place some rather valuable material in the cloud. Does anyone know of a secure site in Ireland, preferrably in Co. Cork.

There's a nice little island in the harbour...?

Its not easy, but I'll try. First the shapes:



Then the evaluation



Then the attachment of regularity



And in the end it came out like this:

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.



It's out of my hands now, I'm off down west to Inis an Bó Finne for a little R&R. Don't really want to go near a computer for at least a week or more.

Chuir me teachtaireacht don aire, Michael, tá chuile rud ab chóir leis chun seo a fhodú. Sin é an áit díreach. Freisin chuir mé teachtaireacht don manach S O' Duinn, i Gleann Steamhail, and fear a athchóirigh Forbas Droma Damhgáire, tá Oileáin Séimh, Oileáin Bior, Spike Island an tabhtacht.

Slán tamall.

Brían

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.



It's out of my hands now, I'm off down west to Inis an Bó Finne for a little R&R. Don't really want to go near a computer for at least a week or more.

Chuir me teachtaireacht don aire, Michael, tá chuile rud ab chóir leis chun seo a fhodú. Sin é an áit díreach. Freisin chuir mé teachtaireacht don manach S O' Duinn, i Gleann Steamhail, and fear a athchóirigh Forbas Droma Damhgáire, tá Oileáin Séimh, Oileáin Bior, Spike Island an tabhtacht.

Slán tamall.

Brían

Enjoy the trip and the break from the computers!

Not much of a break, weather

Jaysus Genius, is that you with the silver chin ?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Jaysus Genius, is that you with the silver chin ?

Silver chin, agus béal óir!

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Jaysus Genius, is that you with the silver chin ?

Silver chin, agus béal óir!

Is that a Yes ?

Béal óir - I'm not so sure - I think mouth of gold ?

I don't think you have a mouth of gold. Maybe a brain of gold (TBA), but mouth of gold ?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Jaysus Genius, is that you with the silver chin ?

Silver chin, agus béal óir!

Is that a Yes ?

Béal óir - I'm not so sure - I think mouth of gold ?

I don't think you have a mouth of gold. Maybe a brain of gold (TBA), but mouth of gold ?

Reference to Balor, the deity of Tory!

I'm off now, must do some sums, see you guys later.

Before i go.
cf you posted this some time ago. What is it

Then the attachment of regularity

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Before i go.
cf you posted this some time ago. What is it

Then the attachment of regularity

That looks like an embroidery pattern to me.

I prefer this one.

Hey guys, I have just created a new forum to discuss aspects of Higher Dimensional Geometry. The forum interface is the same as here, I could do with a little help with setting it up. Anyone with a little spare time. It is located at Higher Geometry

Geometry needs to be able to deal with flexibility and softness. The attachment diagram is substructure, rather than superficial decoration, but EVM is close.





Then there is sound.

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

Hey guys, I have just created a new forum to discuss aspects of Higher Dimensional Geometry. The forum interface is the same as here, I could do with a little help with setting it up. Anyone with a little spare time. It is located at Higher Geometry

This forum either doesn't exist yet or the address is incorrect.