Final Rocket Challenge Comment & Survey

Maybe he's a dyslexic optimist? "Things are looking pu!"

unless it's a V-2 denn es ist.............eins, zwei, drei, vier funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn, elf, zwolf....whoops shoulda stopped at sechs :-)

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Sqrt(25)

2^2 round(pi) 10(base 2) 11286^0 sin(360 degrees)

Or for Belker, Goddard, and Stetson:

Wooff Wooff Wooff Wooff Wooff Wooooosh!

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Well, there's the Prime (sic) Number Explorer, Peter ALways Fractal Explorer (I built one, he never did), and my proposed Fibonacci Explorer. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8

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Actually, my daughter likes the one from Jimmy Neutron:

10 9 8 (hurry up) 1 0

We've used it more than once!

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I remember watching the Junkyard Wars installment in which the contestants had to build cannons. They were fired at a British Army firing range by a British Army Officer. They would countdown prior to each firing as such:

10-9-8-7-6-4-3-2-1, skipping 5..

When asked by the host why they intentionally skipped the number 5, the officer responded that when heard over static-ey field phones, or radios, it was often mis-heard as the word FIRE, so they began skipping it in the countdown to avoid the obvious confusion.

Now, *that's* resourceful!

tah

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.9, 0.89, 0.889, 0.8889, whatever.

The procrastinating rocketeer's count down.

13/3, 11/3, 10/3, 7/3, 9/7 ...

The irrational rocketeer's count down.

Now see what you've started! ;)

-john

Hmmm. How 'bout Zeno's Paradox countdown......

"10, 5, 2.5, 1.25, 0.625, 0.3125, 0.15625..........."

(fifteen minutes later)

"Hey, where the hell y'all going?....

9.403954806578300063749892297778e-37, 4.701977403289150031874946148889e-37, 2.3509887016445750159374730744445e-37..........."

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.000000000000000000000000000000000000001

Pentium-based launch c>

Sounds more like BSOD :)

Ted Novak TRA#5512

John DeMar wrote:

Videos!

ROFL

You win.

Scary. I woke up with this one in my brain:

4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 3, 1, 0

The gray code countdown for us old digital guys who still use Karnaugh maps :)

Doug

Ahem. Those would be rational numbers, no?

But they are repeating, tho :)

My favorites are the sevenths:

1/7=0.142857142857142857142857142857142857142857 2/7=0.285714285714285714285714285714285714285714 3/7=0.428571428571428571428571428571428571428571 4/7=0.571428571428571428571428571428571428571428 5/7=0.714285714285714285714285714285714285714285 6/7=0.857142857142857142857142857142857142857142 7/7=1

Doug Actually kinda enjoy long division...

or the monty python count up...

BROTHER: And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.' MAYNARD: Amen. KNIGHTS: Amen. ARTHUR: Right! One!... Two!... Five! GALAHAD: Three, sir! ARTHUR: Three!

David Erbas-White wrote:

OR

101, 100, 011, 010, 01, Lift off!

Jerry Irv> >

What's astounding about this thread is the sheer variety of amusing available unused countdowns!

Boy, it's been a LONG time since I heard any one mention gray code. I wonder how many RMR readers even know what you're talking about.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Not me.