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Hyper-Rummy

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Here’s a variation on an old favorite of a card game. Try playing Rummy, but in addition to pairs and straights, try throwing in other number sets.


Hyper-Rummy

Hyper-Rummy
My (A) Fibbonnacci Set
Loosing to (B) Pi, (C) Even Numbers, and (D) Primes.

1 - Ace
11 - Jack
12 - Queen
13 - King

Set of Natural Numbers: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13}

Set of Even Numbers: {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12}

Set of Odd Numbers: {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13}

Set of Primes: {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13}

Set of Fibbonnacci Numbers: {1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13}

Set of Exponents: {1, 2, 4, 8}

You could also add famous irrational numbers taken to the maxium number of decimal places allowed by the available cards:

Pi: {3.14159265358979323}

Phi: {1.6180339887498}

e: {2.718281828}

Everyone automatically plays the empty set. : )

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Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080404

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Black Bear Travolta Impression

Black Bear Travolta Impression
  • Hidden cameras have revealed the secret lives of dancing bears.
  • More pictures of big animals found in the Antarctic.
  • The human memory works like a digital camera, taking snapshots of details observed by the eyes, shutting down for brief moments, and has limited slots for memory storage.
  • Drinking caffeine daily may protect the brain against dementia
  • Incredible! There’s no link to the Sun causing Climate Change (this is just the latest in many reports that have disproved the claim). I don’t understand? How could the dittoheads be wrong???
  • No such thing as alternative energy? Check out Project Better Place for a practical business plan for switching to electric cars.
  • Europe’s Jules Verne, a robotic cargo ship, has successfully docked with the ISS.
  • The Aztecs had fractions.
  • Australia’s MP is calling for a kill the Cane Toad Day, sort of like a Save the Bay day, but for an invasive species.
  • Mountain-climbing causes brain damage.
  • Fossilized poop pushes back the date of the earliest Native Americans 1,000 years from 14,340 years ago.
  • Can you Spot the Fake Smiles in this BBC psychology test? (HT Clint)

  • Smiles: Fake or Genuine

    Smiles: Fake or Genuine?