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.
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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...
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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.
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Carol Vorderman looks better and is smarter.
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Overall I go with Miss V as a person of moral fortitude but Rachel is by far the better mathematician
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Hope nobody is offended but .. has anyone ever suspected that Rachel Riley (or even Carol) might be getting fed the solution through an earpiece by the producers ? Surely has to be in some cases.
I find it hard to believe she can get all the tougher ones in 30 secs that the maverick contestants are unable to.
I find it hard to believe she can get all the tougher ones in 30 secs that the maverick contestants are unable to.
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Rachel doesn't get all of them and nor did Carol. Sometimes Rachel gets them in the break or not at all.
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It won't stop some people suspecting it, but no, she isn't fed solutions through her earpiece. Sometimes she fails to solve rounds which are possible.Jamie Weisenberg wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 5:10 pm Hope nobody is offended but .. has anyone ever suspected that Rachel Riley (or even Carol) might be getting fed the solution through an earpiece by the producers ? Surely has to be in some cases.
I find it hard to believe she can get all the tougher ones in 30 secs that the maverick contestants are unable to.
When the numbers round is impossible to solve exactly, she is told this, to save her from continuing to work on it during the break. This is why you'll hear her saying something like "two away is the best available". But if an exact solution is possible, she gets no help solving it.
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Graeme, this may belong in a different thread, but years ago you gave figures for how the two of them compared at solving the numbers. As I recall, Rachel was better, but when you broke down Carol's performance by age, Carol in her twenties was very similar to Rachel in her twenties. Now that Rachel's in her thirties, how do they compare?