Island Life: One sleep to go
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sorry 3410, i misspelt your name
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3410,
Well, you learn something everyday. I did check my dictionary (.com) but it wasn’t there. Frankly, I’m disappointed with the answer.
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I don’t know what numeric system the Chinese have now. But I seem to remember learning in history that they used base 60. (!?)And that this meant only the educated classes could use big numbers….
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3410,
Rob, you might find this interesting
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Isn’t it the French that use base 60?
I thought that the Chinese count like Maori. i.e. to say 11 you say “ten and one”, to say 342 you say “three hundreds and four tens and two”.
but I don’t speak Chinese, anyone?
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3410: that was fun for a Friday arvo, cheers! (also glad I’d get into a British Uni)
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Isn’t it the French that use base 60?
Only briefly. So, seventy-nine is sixty-nineteen, but then eighty-five is four twenties and five. I think they just make shit up, honestly.
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I thought that the Chinese count like Maori. i.e. to say 11 you say “ten and one”, to say 342 you say “three hundreds and four tens and two”.
but I don’t speak Chinese, anyone?Correct, without the “and”. Also, pointy -finger stuff!
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Sorry, messed up the linky.
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Cheers, Heather, it was really interesting to see how that compares with NZSL number signs.
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Now she really does think it was the tooth fairy, and how do I tell her!
Well, you don’t, obviously. I hate it when adults try to ambush kids’ fantastic belief systems. I’ve taught with people who’ll read a book to the kids ( and remember this is 3-5 year olds) and say at the end ” Do you think that really happened? It’s only pretend, eh?” WTF is that about? Childhood is all too short and the magic lasts for ever such a brief period in their lives – let them believe fabulous things. It’s healthy! I vote for more magic in our lives, not less. And by the way, I love that you put a flower in a glass of water – that’s so lovely, and so very like the tooth fairy.
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Happy Birthday MMI inherited real Mechano and used to save up money to buy expansion sets which I still have:). Never did get to Set 10
Balaclava is a town in Crimea.
Its a typo
And I’m not certain anyone knows if stars are infinite, probably depends on whether all universes have stars and if there really are an infinite number of universes … universi?
As for what you can tell kids…
My father (who sadly died 18 months ago) discovered that he got considerably less of the chocolate in a bar after my older brothers got old enough to want some.
So
When I came along he decided to do something about it
From about 2 years old he told me with absolute conviction that chocolate was made of poos – hence the brown colour.
To this day I can’t eat chocolate, the smell puts me off. milo is OK though (shrug)
All I can say is that it probably saved me a lot of pimples.He really was a very nice man honest.
cheers
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I’m a little wary of infinity. A mathematician friend (actually he’s now an actuary) insists that infinity plus one is one more than infinity. I reckon they’re the same number.
But if there are infinite universes, wouldn’t it be enough if one in 100, or a thousand, or one in a trillion- has stars to make stars infinite as well?
Back on this planet- and we only have the one- amusing to think I could get into a British university. I hope my maths averse 15 yr-old would have a shot. What are we losing when we abondon a tool like this?
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