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
>_>
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- Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Television Appearance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 10223
Re: Television Appearance
you make an excellent pointConor wrote:It's next week, isn't it?
(I deny all responsibility)
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Television Appearance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 10223
Re: Television Appearance
just bumping this for anyone who checks the forums at the last minute - good (retroactive?) luck, Kirk
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday, 12th February
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3286
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday, 12th February
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... >_>)
(obviously I mean round 6...no funny comments about "how did you get a word in a numbers round?!" please... >_>)
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 11th February 2008
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4760
Re: Spoilers for Monday 11th February 2008
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...
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 11th February 2008
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4760
Re: Spoilers for Monday 11th February 2008
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
still not convinced by this champion's consistency, though
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Two points about number games
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3915
Re: Two points about number games
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...
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: My favourite cheese...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5712
Re: My favourite cheese...
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...
- Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
Re: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
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*Martin Gardner wrote:I already have a 3 hour exam in April, I don't want it to be 3 hrs 45 minutes !
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
Re: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
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...Corby wrote:What is your disability Michael?
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 8th February 2008
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6652
Re: Spoilers for Friday 8th February 2008
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
but yeah, bandied and that numbers game miss...disappointing, let's hope it's just beginner's nerves
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
Re: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
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?
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
Re: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
oi!Corby wrote:Cool, am I a Master or do I have to play in the retards section?
(not retards, just 'differently abled')
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Corral Correction
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4873
Re: Countdown Corral Correction
so no-one's commented on how you can get SECRETION from ERECTIONS?
disappointing, guys...
disappointing, guys...
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Corral Correction
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4873
Re: Countdown Corral Correction
I wonder how many contestants have had ERECTIONS on the show...
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Corral Correction
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4873
Re: Countdown Corral Correction
his erection problem?
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
- Replies: 190
- Views: 21308
Re: COMA- The Countdown Online Masters competition
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?)
(do I need to do anything?)
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:41 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Probability
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5598
Re: Probability
Close..I actually meant fractionally less than 1...Kirk Bevins wrote:Michael, do you mean a probability fractionally larger than zero, rather than less than zero
(if I told you about these new fangled probabilities which are less than zero, I'd have you kill you...or something...)
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for 6th February, Wednesday
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2617
Re: Spoilers for 6th February, Wednesday
finals? but the series is still young, another 8 people could come along and score 900 points!
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:17 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Probability
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5598
Re: Probability
(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...
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:27 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Richard Digance
- Replies: 81
- Views: 9686
Re: Richard Digance
so to summarise this thread, they should take the revolutionary step of having people who are actually *funny*?
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ratio of letters to numbers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9315
Re: How would Susie fare as a contestant?
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 ...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th January 2008
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5486
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th January 2008
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?
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th January 2008
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5486
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th January 2008
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...
that said, I didn't sleep last night...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th January 2008
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5486
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 30th January 2008
round 2, DC mention OUTRACED but not OUTRAGED - Carol did put the G below the C though when she put it up
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:00 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 43102
Re: Higher or Lower
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 ...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:47 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 43102
Re: Higher or Lower
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!
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:39 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 43102
Re: Higher or Lower
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...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:24 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 43102
Re: Higher or Lower
the frivolous law of large numbers states that most numbers are very very large - surely that doesn't count as advanced mathematics?
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:24 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 43102
Re: Higher or Lower
frivolous law of large numbers, anyone?
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:30 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Monty Hall/Take A Deal
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4237
Re: Monty Hall/Take A Deal
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...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Mathmo Test
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6276
Re: The Mathmo Test
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!)
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!)
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Mathmo Test
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6276
Re: The Mathmo Test
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...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Mathmo Test
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6276
The Mathmo Test
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,...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Caption Competition
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6804
Re: Caption Competition
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.
Also, I condone caption competitions - I hosted one on a forum a couple of years ago, which produced some truly awesome moments.
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Suggestions thread?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8229
Re: Suggestions thread?
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...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Looks Like A 9, But Can Only Get An 8
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4208
Re: Looks Like A 9, But Can Only Get An 8
can we start a campaign to make DATAMINES a word?
pretty please?
pretty please?
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:29 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Letter distribution
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12847
Re: Letter distribution
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_...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Alison/Susie?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 10189
Re: Alison/Susie?
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'...
Plus it's just not the same when someone spots 'erotica'...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1114254
Re: Welcome!
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...
Re: Breakfast
If I'm having breakfast it means I got up in the morning, which means something has gone horribly, horribly wrong...