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Gavin Chipper

I'm not sure he's specified a finite end point. Unless I've missed something. I've read through it again and it is clear what he means actually. So I think I will declare Neil Zussman the winner. Well my point was more that by allowing someone to say "..." and use it as basically shorthan...

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote:I'm not sure he's specified a finite end point. Unless I've missed something.

I've read through it again and it is clear what he means actually. So I think I will declare Neil Zussman the winner.

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:Well done to Craig and commiserations to Douglas & Gavin who got most of them, and to James, David & Oliver for trying.

I like the way you include me as having got most of them when only one of my answers was accepted.

Gavin Chipper

I think this would beat Jim because as far as I understand, you automatically work backwards with ^ anyway so Jim's brackets are not required and end up as waste! More to follow. I must admit, I did wonder if the brackets were necessary and came to the conclusion that they were, but maybe I misunde...

Gavin Chipper

Define f 0:= 9^ (9^ (9^9)) For i=1, 2, 3,…, (f0^ (f0^ (f0^ f0)), define fi+1:=fi^ (fi ^ (fi ^ fi)) Call the last of these terms g0. For j=1,2,3,…, (g0^ (g0^ (g0^ g0)), define gj+1= gj^ (gj ^ (gj ^ gj)) Call the last of these terms h0. For k=1,2,3,…, (h0^ (h0^ (h0^ h0)), define hk+1= hk^ (hk ^ (hk ^...

Gavin Chipper

I started doing this myself as well but got bored before 1000 characters, as you'll see if you read on. I think if I was doing it again, I'd say about 250 or 300 (not 20 though). My answer: Start with x (move 1) and each move is result ^ itself until move x. This gives x%. x%%%… with x %s = x (%2). ...

Gavin Chipper

9^9^9^9^9......^9! ie 9 raised to the power 9 to the power 9 .... and finally to the power 9! So that's 499 9's, 499 ^'s and 9! = 1000 characters This is the same as Jon's, but interestingly they both managed to define their answers in far less than 1000 characters... Define f 0:= 9^ (9^ (9^9)) For...

Gavin Chipper

OK, so the answers PMed to me, in chronological order: The largest number anyone else submits, plus one. No! 18. Good opening gambit but we'll have to wait and see if this can last the distance. 9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(...

Gavin Chipper

My suggestion is an Apterous Dave Wilkinson. He does his best to win, but with as low a score as possible. I'm not sure what the ideal algorithm would be, but he could be designed so that if the maximum in a particular round won't put him more than 10 behind, he'll declare nothing. If he declares se...

Gavin Chipper

JackHurst wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Maybe you should have bought the calendar? Would you like us to post all the puzzles here everyday for you, you cheapskate? Get the hell out of my sight.
My favourite post in a long time.

It made me cry. I hope you're happy.

Gavin Chipper

Gavin, if you weren't so deliberately antagonistic and matter of factly up yourself, i'd furnish you with a comprehensive reponse, but alas history dictates that whatever is put in front of you, you somehow find a way of questioning it and come over so authoritarian on things that in truth, you kno...

Gavin Chipper

Panic over. I've double clicked "TRK" at the bottom and it's gone. Pretty good feature though!

Gavin Chipper

I've just been typing something in Word and accidentally pressed a few buttons, and now everything's coming out red and underlined. And when I backspace it just turns the letters red and puts a line through them. What the fuck? Why would that even be an option?

Gavin Chipper

Ok, so in terms of "dbx" being a valid word, it's not representing a company or a product, but basically a technology. Presumably we're supposed to announce it "duh-buhks" or something too. A la Phonejacker! It does say trademark next to it in the dictionary so I guess it is a p...

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:Both players start with 7's

Grocers' apostrophe. And we're done!

Gavin Chipper

Welcome to the April Fool's Day edition of the Robinson Recap. Hidden inside are 3 ridiculously easy mistakes (8 have already been found, so there are 3 left - see below). Happy hunting. Countdown recap for Thursday 32 March 2010. Can't believe I've only just noticed this one (and that no one notic...

Gavin Chipper

There is no evidence to suggest anything i may have said above was ever true, in fact i made it all up in the name of attention seeking, because i've got nothing else better to do. Thanks for the constructive input though, it's greatly appreciated. Well, it would be interesting to know if it's base...

Gavin Chipper

Supee Juachan wrote:
David O'Donnell wrote:How many places are there?
Looking forward to see you guys.

I take it David's question wasn't in the citizenship test...

Gavin Chipper

How about making Fridays the day to broadcast a load of stored-up CoC matches - that could probably fill up the quieter summer months and gives a little variety to each week. This is a nice idea. There would still be a CofC and it wouldn't all be shown in a big block. If they were all recorded toge...

Gavin Chipper

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular by the way. There are lots of quiet contestants - is the evidence really there that CofC contestants are overall "worse" in this respect than your average contestant? Or, perhaps more significantly, have the viewers noticed/mentioned it? I sometimes...

Gavin Chipper

Ben Hunter wrote:I heard Scott Gillies might get in on this series, if so there should be a fight on for the title.

I think I have a winning record against him. I presume he's improved a lot?

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:What are you all talking about? Do you have to actually have the calendar to understand this thread?
Yes.

I mean, someone could mention the word that you are talking about. There was no spoiler under the "spoiler space"!

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:So, we still wait for another octochamp. Let's hope that the lowest octochamp record won't be broken (The current 15-round record is 3, in Series 49.)

That's 3/8 points per game. I didn't realise - I doubt that ever will be beaten!

Gavin Chipper

AMNIOTE = 89% of TIM O'KANE In your respective faces, Corby and Dean. Also Tricia Pay RAPACITY = 89% DON WRIGHT is downright unbeatable at 100%. (Er, obviously a longer 100%er will actually beat him though.) Maybe we should look at biggest statistical freak rather than purely length or percentage. ...

Gavin Chipper

Oh no - he lost! An octochamp averaging under 80 is surely something we will see in our lifetimes though. Excellent contest. Unlucky Dave, well played Barry. I didn't actually watch today, but it's funny in a way that the person who beat him was called Barry, given that the last person I remember ho...

Gavin Chipper

SPLOIERS for conundrum on 31st March ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: ::::::::: Its not OED valid, so you've got an excuse if you didn't get it. What about ODE(2r) though? All I know is that its not valid on apterous, and im pretty sure its n...

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I've had a few sensible answers PMed to me but not a massive number

..............WELL THEY CAN'T BE *THAT* SENSIBLE THEN CAN THEY?!!!!!!!!!!ONE!!!ELEVEN

Marseille nil.

Gavin Chipper

OK, just a couple of days left for this. I've had a few sensible answers PMed to me but not a massive number, so it's still all to play for! Also I was thinking of having another championship later in the year and then we can put the two winners together and have a yearly champion. But there's going...

Gavin Chipper

I was thinking of "zero time" numbers rounds, so the only time you get is when you click on the buttons for your solution. Obviously you wouldn't have time to declare anything before entering your solution, so perhaps you could have it so you don't need to declare and what you end up on ju...

Gavin Chipper

I haven't been following his games that closely, but from what I have seen could the champion be on for a "record" octotal if he makes 8?

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:depending on whether you count Masters episodes as two, one or not at all

I thought they were five.

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote:I am sure he won't mind me posting this on his behalf http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=214914

Commenting in your own max game is a bit like posting it in the thread of brag anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Getting annoyed by people posting alternative numbers solutions is surely far more weird and annoying than doing it in the first place. Just skip over them. Other have said similar but this is my alternative solution to this topic. Alternative to Official Thread of Brag: Hi. I'm big headed. Not at a...

Gavin Chipper

I think it is a great idea as long as the COC will still continue. IMO the December champion would be at a slight advantage as he/she will have less nerves. I also think it would be good to have champions from previous years battle it out in some specials in the future. The June chamipion would als...

Gavin Chipper

Ralph Gillions wrote:I am pleased you are still around Jason.
Speaking before thinking is often easier said than done.
Sometimes the instant reaction prevails.
However, it's nice to see you posting again.

Was that a poem?

Gavin Chipper

With all these specials going about (e.g. Kirk v Chris, Charlie v Junaid) I think it would have been nice to have one of these as the 5000th show. I'm not sure if you've been reading, Gavin, but if it was a special it wouldn't count in the tally. Isn't it 5000 regular shows and specials are ignored...

Gavin Chipper

Ben Wilson wrote:Pretty sure this is wrongly allowed- http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?word=kibitzs

Weirdly, BISCUITS is missing.

Gavin Chipper

With all these specials going about (e.g. Kirk v Chris, Charlie v Junaid) I think it would have been nice to have one of these as the 5000th show.

Gavin Chipper

Ian Volante wrote:J'ai treize ans.

Treize bien!

Gavin Chipper

And who really gives a shit what you think? Gavin and Julie, the gruesome twosome, who between them have so few brain cells they know them all by name. Sad that you have to hijack a celebratory thread with your own brand of bullshit, but nonetheless very predictable. But you always have to more tha...

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:I was just pointing out that the program classified it as valid (hence the CAPS), even though Susie said it was American. Call it what you will.

The program classified it as valid? The recap writer? Surely it should be overruled (i.e. don't put it in capitals).

Gavin Chipper

Helen Andrews wrote:Wow, a message from the Queen, impressive stuff.

I was thinking the opposite.

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:It was really just a comment on how ill-defined your question is, which I thought would appeal to you.

Yeah, that's fine. The "Any questions" bit was supposed to imply I might not have defined it that clearly.

Gavin Chipper

Oh and by the way (you know who you are), submissions have to make sense as a stand-alone answer. (It was Reams.) It renders the competition a bit pointless if you change the rules after it starts. Only if you're a massive pedant in a case such as this (but I don't know if you're being serious, or ...

Gavin Chipper

I saw ASSONATE in one of the rounds. It's in the NODE.

Gavin Chipper

1000 characters is a hell of a lot. I don't really think that the complexity of this problem is reduced at all if the maximum number of characters were to be reduced to something like 20. And I suggest that you go with that, for a start at least. I wasn't sure how many to pick but I think 20 is far...

Gavin Chipper

Fucking Hell. It's one thing to have two of the panel against one but to have the host joining in as well made the whole thing a bit ridiculous.

Gavin Chipper

You have to PM your answers to me so people can't just work off other people's solutions. 1000 characters or less and see who can get the highest number. There are certain rules of course. You can't assume people have heard of numbers such as Graham's Number and use it as a starting point. In fact t...

Gavin Chipper

The theme tune to only connect sounds like a retarded version of University Challenge's theme. That's all.

Gavin Chipper

Never seen the show before Friday, but could this be to hide the disparity between the questions? (I'm not suggesting it's rigged on purpose...necessarily) It will seem a bit unfair if some questions have only one or two pointless answers but others have shitloads. Is CF gonna be at Co:Lon? He seem...

Gavin Chipper

Just caught up with this on iPlayer, I'm guessing the Michael on the show is the Michael on here with the raccoon(?) picture? Well done both of you, really unlucky with Swap Shop I thought, but I agree with everyone else that you were the most engaging pair. You also had the best hair by some way t...

Gavin Chipper

I've never watched this Pointless game - is it anything like Topranko!?

Gavin Chipper

Me, Paul Gallen and Junaid Mubeen. Paul Gallen was pretty much God in the CofC and Junaid will mop up all the numbers rounds. I'll sit back and take the glory.

Gavin Chipper

Ok, so in terms of "dbx" being a valid word, it's not representing a company or a product, but basically a technology. Presumably we're supposed to announce it "duh-buhks" or something too. A la Phonejacker! It does say trademark next to it in the dictionary so I guess it is a p...

Gavin Chipper

I think it means that there is (or will be) an agreed volume on the contract and this is the minimum he will be charged for, even if he needs less volume because they are going to reserve that amount of space regardless. However, should he need more space, the amount charged will be increased "...

Gavin Chipper

D Eadie wrote:I play under a dumpynose

Bradley Holland wrote:How about J O U W

Racists.

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:Given that I'm still awake working on the lag issues, I might not be awake by midday. Let's say 1 to be on the safe side.

The longer you stay up, the worse your jetlag will be.

Gavin Chipper

Is that Mark Tournoff at the top of this thread?

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote:I'm sure most would do it for free.

With the quality of some of them, I assumed that they were paying for the privelege!

Gavin Chipper

Ben Wilson wrote:I want to be copied in on all PMs about finalising a time and I'll be installing CCTV in all remaining players' houses for the next round.

Sounds fair enough.

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