A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
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About as much chance of me hosting it as you appearing on it.Gavin Chipper wrote:You do need to build up a rapport for when she's your co-host, I suppose, so it's just as well you think that.Mark Deeks wrote:Speaking to Rachel is much more fun than speaking to Gev, let's be honest.
She made an embarrassing appearance on Question Time a few years ago. She clearly knew very little beyond what she reads in the Daily Mail and approached every subject with the sort of indignant moral outrage one would expect.L'oisleatch McGraw wrote:Why on earth not?Martin Bishop wrote:I wouldn't recommend discussing politics with Carol, though...
If someone gets a solution like 17×23 it's quite clever because it doesn't break down any further and it's hard to spot. But unless they're both at least 13, it's not any cleverer than any other solution and not particularly interesting so I'm not sure why she mentions it.Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:11 amI think it's just that there is a way of getting the target by multiplying 2 smaller numbers, but only one so it's hard to spot.Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:Can someone explain the magic in "the product of two primes", Rachel mentions it often and I feel I should know it but I'm afraid it has escaped me. Thanks.