The famous fruit-chat quiz!
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by Istenem » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:12 pm
okay bear with me on this.
imagine an astronaut gets in radio contact with a little green man and he speaks to the alien then nine of his colleagues also do.
what could they deduce about his appearance if he reports that he has spoken to 14 earthlings?
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by dangerous » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:43 pm
Well he couldn't count so... was he wearing a burberry cap?
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by harry 3 » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:56 pm
They use a number system based on 6, not decimal ?
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by Istenem » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:35 pm
harry2 wrote: They use a number system based on 6, not decimal ?
yes, and by extension what can you tell about how he looks?
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by Weyland » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:39 pm
Three fingers (instead of five) on each hand?
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by Istenem » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:49 pm
Weyland hits the target, assist by Harry.
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by Weyland » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:04 pm
Almost current question (from last week):
Why are CDs 74 minutes in length?
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by Istenem » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:16 pm
so they can fit beethoven's fifth?
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by Weyland » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:31 pm
Ah, you've clearly read the same article at me.
But nope - not quite.
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by Istenem » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:36 pm
darn!
i'm away for a few days so it is just as well my short-term memory is buggered.
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:39 pm
I thought CDs were around 78 minutes long?
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by blackmogu » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:22 pm
A standard CD has 333,000 sectors. A CD played at 1x reads 75 sectors/second. This gives us (333000/75) seconds of playing time, or (333000/(75*60)) minutes.
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:30 pm
So why do I have some old compilation CDs that run up to 78 / 79 minutes?
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by Matt Vinyl » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:52 pm
I believe this is similar to the old cassette tapes, where you could have longer ones if they had 'thinner' tape on the reels. Of course, quality suffers as the tape was not up to standard. You can get CDs that go up to 80 minutes, although I'm not sure if they meet the 'red book' standard, as in, they may be inferior.
As for the answer to the question, me no idea!
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by Weyland » Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:15 pm
74 minutes was the first released standard. However, the stack of blanks on my desk claims to be 80 minutes.
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