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Michael Wallace

hang on, so now people are going to *watch* me be destroyed by a future series champion?

oh well, that means I can blame the pressure of an audience for losing

again

>_>

Michael Wallace

Conor wrote:It's next week, isn't it?

you make an excellent point

(I deny all responsibility)

Michael Wallace

just bumping this for anyone who checks the forums at the last minute - good (retroactive?) luck, Kirk

Michael Wallace

also ASTEROID, right (round 5), DC weren't asked...

(obviously I mean round 6...no funny comments about "how did you get a word in a numbers round?!" please... >_>)

Michael Wallace

Michael Wallace

that was a shame, the challenger seemed quite promising in the first part, but completely died in the middle/end still not convinced by this champion's consistency, though I played along with the champ for the first ten rounds and was only 7 points up thanks to spotting OVERMAN in the TAVERNA round...

Michael Wallace

that was a shame, the challenger seemed quite promising in the first part, but completely died in the middle/end

still not convinced by this champion's consistency, though

Michael Wallace

1. Has anyone else noticed that at some point in the past (I can't remember when) the normally unobscured numbers started becoming obscured by Carol's head when she puts the rest of them up? How and why did this happen? I'm sure it never used to happen, so something must have changed. She got talle...

Michael Wallace

Good choice. BTW, Is that cheese stall still on Cambridge market place? oh god, that brings back memories (I say that like I wasn't there 6 months ago...) - early morning scramble to lectures, through borders, through the market place, and that *horrid* smell :P I quite like cheese, but can't reall...

Michael Wallace

Martin Gardner wrote:I already have a 3 hour exam in April, I don't want it to be 3 hrs 45 minutes !

Each June for the 3 years of my undergraduate degree I had to do that - 4 days of 3 and 3/4 hours maths exams *shudder*

Michael Wallace

Corby wrote:What is your disability Michael?

I'm registered as visually impaired (my eyesight is marginal for that, but I'm blind in my left eye, which helps, so to speak), not sure I can blame it for my countdown performance though...

Michael Wallace

I think your edit made my post pointing out that his easy misses at the end of part 2 disappear!

but yeah, bandied and that numbers game miss...disappointing, let's hope it's just beginner's nerves

Michael Wallace

Deal.

Michael Wallace

ooh, since I'm disabled I get 25% extra time in my exams - can I have an extra 7.5 seconds in every round please?

Michael Wallace

Corby wrote:Cool, am I a Master or do I have to play in the retards section?

oi!

(not retards, just 'differently abled')

Michael Wallace

so no-one's commented on how you can get SECRETION from ERECTIONS?

disappointing, guys...

Michael Wallace

I wonder how many contestants have had ERECTIONS on the show...

Michael Wallace

his erection problem?

Michael Wallace

Presuming that it's possible, I'm free pretty much all of next week as cannon fodder for the wild card tournament, it'll make my procrastinating when I should be working feel more productive!

(do I need to do anything?)

Michael Wallace

Kirk Bevins wrote:Michael, do you mean a probability fractionally larger than zero, rather than less than zero

Close..I actually meant fractionally less than 1...

(if I told you about these new fangled probabilities which are less than zero, I'd have you kill you...or something...)

Michael Wallace

finals? but the series is still young, another 8 people could come along and score 900 points!

Michael Wallace

(although I think statisticians would say exactly 1 but I disagree with their philosophy). They most certainly wouldn't, unless he or she was an idiot. The number of people in the world is finite, so the probability is going to be exactly something fractionally smaller than zero. The problem with t...

Michael Wallace

so to summarise this thread, they should take the revolutionary step of having people who are actually *funny*?

Michael Wallace

I'm with gevin/gavin here, well, at least I think his proposed 10 letters 4 numbers round would be good, but obviously I'm biased I certainly think that numbers games are almost always very easy - in my game after completely mind-blanking an easy 2 from the top I went for 6 smalls on both, and they ...

Michael Wallace

maybe they should raise the threshold for the 'teapot if you score zero' to something that's positive now we have these 15 round games?

Michael Wallace

wow, lowest score ever in 15 rounds, right? also, was it just me or was the countdown revealed suddenly in a cut? I looked up at the screen and it seemed to be visible before he started the clock

that said, I didn't sleep last night...

Michael Wallace

round 2, DC mention OUTRACED but not OUTRAGED - Carol did put the G below the C though when she put it up

Michael Wallace

my post got eaten, hmm... but yes, I also would presume that the distribution of the random numbers is uniform on (-infinity,+infinity), but the only thoughts I've had on this problem have involved me thinking about my first year course on number theory, and countable and uncountable infinites (I'd ...

Michael Wallace

In fact, by the frivolous law of large numbers you'd go bankrupt buying enormous pieces of paper (to fit the numbers on) and so I'm doomed to never get my money off you!

Michael Wallace

I wonder if there is a significance to the fact that if one guesses wrong, you get £1 - does that mean if they're the same then you get £1 regardless? That would de-symmetricise the problem I suppose edit: indeed, now I reread the problem, it could be a trick question - you could always choose two n...

Michael Wallace

the frivolous law of large numbers states that most numbers are very very large - surely that doesn't count as advanced mathematics?

Michael Wallace

frivolous law of large numbers, anyone?

Michael Wallace

it's a nice question, although I'll refrain from answering given that a) I'm doing an MSc in statistics; and ii) I've already thought about this problem when someone has raised it with respect to deal or no deal and the 'swap or no swap' scenario not that I watch deal or no deal, or anything, it jus...

Michael Wallace

perhaps I should clarify that this isn't meant to be a test of how good a mathematician you are :p (in case that wasn't obvious...)

more it's a list of things that are stereotypical of uber-maths-geeks - it's quite possible that the lower you score, the better (from your point of view, at least!)

Michael Wallace

I'm a chem and maths undergrad and even I thought those questions were bizarre. I've never heard of the term "Mathmo" and had no idea what those games were in the first section of the test. Are they American? Nevertheless I got 24. :geek: Mathmo is slang for someone studying maths at univ...

Michael Wallace

Hello all, I thought I'd get around to starting a topic myself, and because I'm curious to see how countdown geeks (I use geeks in its most endearing sense) do on a supposed test of how much of a mathematician you are. So if you're sufficiently bored, go here and see how many of the traits you have,...

Michael Wallace

Could someone maybe describe who/what's going on here, for those of us (un)fortunate enough not to have a clue?

Also, I condone caption competitions - I hosted one on a forum a couple of years ago, which produced some truly awesome moments.

Michael Wallace

from my (relatively extensive) experience of forums, 5 is a *tiny* number of sub-forums to have, I agree with the post above (which I can't be bothered to navigate away and back for) - it doesn't really matter if you have sub-forums (such as, say the CO- events forum) that are likely to be completel...

Michael Wallace

can we start a campaign to make DATAMINES a word?

pretty please?

Michael Wallace

so because it's half 4 am, and because I'm supposedly doing some work that involves letter distributions, and because I'm a bit of a sad git who finds this interesting, here are what the letter distributions *should* be based on wikipedia's letter frequency stats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_...

Michael Wallace

Susie is clearly superior - I don't know if it's just because Alison is new, but she seems to check a lot of words that are pretty clearly going to be in the dictionary.

Plus it's just not the same when someone spots 'erotica'...

Michael Wallace

Why, hello there, I'm Michael Wallace, resident series 55 failure (I have enough excuses to hit the posting character limit, I suspect, but the main one involves modding not being in the dictionary...yet). I am currently doing a masters in statistics at UCL (having done maths at Cambridge for my und...

Michael Wallace

If I'm having breakfast it means I got up in the morning, which means something has gone horribly, horribly wrong...

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