The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[Ivan Seeking]

I figured that, Risk, or Chess of course.

18436572

 

[Moonbear]

18436572

Is that a clue?!?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Is that a clue?!?

yes.

 

[JamesU]

we need more clues...too much stuff on google

 

[Ivan Seeking]

How to "see the USA"

 

[Danger]

How to "see the USA"

I've never driven down there, but are those highway numbers?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I've never driven down there, but are those highway numbers?

No. I learned this in high school.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Firing order for a v-8 engine?

 

[JamesU]

grrrr...I was going to say that...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Firing order for a v-8 engine?

That's it!

 

[JamesU]

APE?! i's your turn!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Just looking for something interesting to ask about.

This person has been credited as the first computer programer though the program this person concieved was never used.

I hope this one is a bit more difficult.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The good sir Babbage

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

The good sir Babbage

Getting warm there but no.

 

[JamesU]

Augusta Ada King

 

[Ivan Seeking]

An interesting aside: One of Babbages descendents is a customer of mine.

 

[zoobyshoe]

An interesting aside: One of Babbages descendents is a customer of mine.

Does Babbage eat cabbage?

 

[JamesU]

OMG! Augusta Ada King! APE!?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Does Babbage eat cabbage?

Boy...you know...I never thought to ask.

So, programmers. Galileo?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Does somebody want to go ahead while we wait for an answer from TheStatutoryApe?

 

[JamesU]

I will since I missed my last one.. give me a minute

 

[JamesU]

okay, nobody in the great thread of riddleness can get one. if nobody gets it here I'll just give it away

I don't think you'll find it on google:

Curved when I'm small
Flat when I'm all
Infanite is all
big, wide and tall

I extend in three directions
a paridox of perplexions

What am I?

 

[Danger]

What am I?

Space? 10

 

[JamesU]

no, not space...


think about lines 2&3 carefully

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Well come on yomamma, how about another clue?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

OMG! Augusta Ada King! APE!?

Yes correct.
Sorry I had to go again.

 

[JamesU]

Well come on yomamma, how about another clue?

okay...it's VERY related to our smileys. but it has a special characteristic that the smileys don't

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Okay, how about giving it up and pick a new one?

 

[JamesU]

k you go ivan

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What was it?

 

[JamesU]

it was a sphere

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Ah... clever. I've never really been very good at those types of riddles. You want to try another or wait for Ivan to get back?

 

[Gokul43201]

I thought so, so I'll go next

In 1897 the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that (amongst other things) proclaimed that "this thing" henceforth take the value of about 9.2. Entirely by accident, the bill didn't make it past the Senate.

What was it ?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Hahahahahaha... that's hilarious.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I thought so, so I'll go next

In 1897 the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that (amongst other things) proclaimed that "this thing" henceforth take the value of about 9.2. Entirely by accident, the bill didn't make it past the Senate.

What was it ?

Is that unitless?

 

[Moonbear]

I thought so, so I'll go next

In 1897 the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that (amongst other things) proclaimed that "this thing" henceforth take the value of about 9.2. Entirely by accident, the bill didn't make it past the Senate.

What was it ?

Oh my, it was pi!

The critical passage in the bill is: "...disclosing the fourth important fact, that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four..." This statement claims that pi = 3.2 should be the law of Indiana (there is another passage that can be interpreted as giving a value of pi equal to 16/sqrt(3) which is approximately equal to 9.2).

http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Ilan.Vardi/pi.html

 

[Moonbear]

I've lost track here...was this an interim clue or an official clue? I can give one unless we're waiting for another.

Edit: Nevermind, I'm going to sleep. I wouldn't want to start a clue and then leave.

 

[wolram]

One for the future, It flies but has no wings, it is not monochromatic but is
mono.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Mag-Lev? A monorail?

 

[brewnog]

Ahhh! I reckon you might have hit the nail on the, urm, spot there.

 

[Danger]

Ahhh! I reckon you might have hit the nail on the, urm, spot there.

Naw, you silly bugger. It's obviously fly-fishing line...




I might have to hit the panic rack and get out of here with zero notice pretty soon. Lightning in the area and I don't have a surge protector.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Moonbear is due a question anyway.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

WOW! Moonbear is not here!

Okay, here's one.

Two years before Special Relativity, what unlikely event transpired that would later become a daily occurence.

 

[Danger]

Two years before Special Relativity, what unlikely event transpired that would later become a daily occurence.

Powered flight?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Not powered flight...

Unlikely in the sense of all four coordinates.

 

[dextercioby]

Le prémière Tour de France...?

First powered heavier-than-air flight?

Daniel.

 

[dextercioby]

Lorentz transformations...?(Lorentzian boosts).

Wiki gives it to 1904.

Daniel.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No, eh no. But of the four coordinates, we really need only consider three coordinates each. The third coordinate necessarily being the same according to the first two.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So as not to be too vague

Two years before Special Relativity, what unlikely event transpired that would later become a daily occurence.

that was unlikely in the sense of the (all four) coordinates. [But of the four coordinates, we really need only consider three coordinates each. The third coordinate necessarily being the same according to the first two].

So we are talking about two things involved in this event.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

41.6 X 84.7
41.9 X 80.5
39.6 X 80.9
39.1 X 84.8