It was really just a thought experiment-- BUT, I will say this: If it did turn out that you COULD conceivably measure the Earth's curvature using a level on a plane (just not doing what that guy did), it would be hilarious to see them prove themselves wrong.
If you listen to them, they've got...
Ahh, ok-- I was thinking there was going to be a minor force perpendicular to gravity due to the acceleration, but yes, that makes sense, I guess that it would be along the same vector.
DaveE
So, I'm sure many of you have seen the experiment recently by a flat-Earth member who brought a level on a plane with him in order to determine whether or not the Earth is flat or round. And yeah, my immediate thought was similarly "how silly!" But it did make me wonder: Could you do it that...
Admittedly, although they specify "random", they don't actually specify that the randomness is evenly distributed. It could be random with a bias, in which case it's not possible to determine the answer, despite the fact that there might be a correct one.
DaveE
Of course, I would argue the comic is incorrect-- the "tester" says "Tom Smith has just died as a result of your decision", but that's wrong. Tom Smith didn't die as a result of the subject's decision. He died as a result of the tester's decision. Should've just said "Tom Smith has just...
If the bus driver is one of the 100 passengers, I still don't think there's a solution, although if he has to pay a fee just like the other passengers (IE, there are 101 seats), then I believe there are a few solutions (I get 3 of them).
Otherwise, there's obviously something wrong-- either...
I suppose it depends on whose 1/3 of the melon Billy purchased. Did 1/6 come from Frank and 1/6 come from Sammy? Or did they sell Billy the 1/3 according to the proportion they had divided the melon already? By rights, Sammy or Frank could have sold Billy the entire 1/3 out of their own...
Whoops, got that backwards-- none of the minutes from 00:00-00:59 are coprime, except for 00:01, but ALL of the minutes from 01:00-01:59 are coprime.
Since there seems to be no resolution, here's both answers:
24-hour clock: 865/1440 times per day are coprime
12-hour clock: 894/1440...
I'm not sure I understand why Analog and Digital time would be different, unless you mean a 24-hour digital clock (IE, one that says 23:17 rather than 11:17pm). If we're talking a 12-hour clock, then the answer is all the coprime times in the range 1:00-12:59, then doubled. If we're talking a...
If I understand correctly, it's a lot more than that! There are 30 times within the hour of 2:00-2:59 alone that are co-prime!
Is this question meant on a 24-hour clock or a 12-hour clock?
DaveE
Yep, got 'em! Also, a good one for Firefox is the Live HTTP Headers plugin-- let's you see the request headers the browser's making as it makes them, which is handy for some of the hidden headers that you might be sending.
Sadly, for this one, they didn't really help us. Nobody on our side...
So, for the curious, we tracked it down. We added %T to the Apache log files (total request duration) to verify that what we were seeing about the CGIs was correct. And it was. The CGIs indeed were running quickly.
BUT! It shed light on another problem: ExtJS. We had used ExtJS in the...
UNIX was developed for users to share machines-- big powerhouse computers in the 70's where users were all using the machine at once. So UNIX had to ensure that there were safeguards in place, since otherwise, an individual user could do something wrong and crash the system, or hog system...