Clock for the Nerds

[CowGirl]

http://streetlessons.com/484-the-perfect-clock-for-nerds.html

[Mr. Analog]

And for extra nerdpoints you can add this lamp!

http://abductionlamp.com/

[CowGirl]

Ohhhhh I like the Bovine Abductee!

[Mr. Analog]

that's everyone's favourite so far

BTW: Tonnica loves that keychain!

[Darren Dirt]

http://streetlessons.com/484-the-perfect-clock-for-nerds.html

5:00 is my favorite -- it's by far the most challenging

of course having no brackets means you need to know order of operations to properly calculate "(sqrt9)!" otherwise you'll get like six-hundred-one-point-4-o-clock, which no one in their right mind would think is the right answer


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oops, spoke too soon:

Lotean said ?
I found that the square root of 9! minus nine over nine is really 601.3952191 and whatever my calculator missed. It?s still a god idea though.

[Mr. Analog]

Arrgh! Number 5 lead me to; Factorials -> Binomial Coefficient -> Combinatorics

I wish I had taken this kind of math in school, I just got dum-dum math (and hated every inch of it).

[Thorin]

of course having no brackets means you need to know order of operations to properly calculate "(sqrt9)!"

Maybe that's why it's being touted as the "clock for nerds"?   Oh, and it's not the order of operations that makes it (sqrt(9))! instead of sqrt(9!), it's the fact that the square root symbol does not extend over the exclamation mark.

Took me a while to remember the exclamation mark means factorial.  Then five o'clock suddenly made sense.

[Darren Dirt]

it's not the order of operations that makes it (sqrt(9))! instead of sqrt(9!), it's the fact that the square root symbol does not extend over the exclamation mark.

D'OH! I didn't notice that; I guess I wasn't nerding hard enough...