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« Reply #3270 on: 01:02:21, 19-01-2008 » |
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You mean they might have done better to look at the train timetables instead? ;
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« Reply #3271 on: 02:33:43, 19-01-2008 » |
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Talking of train timetables, looks like at least two members have made it home!  Hope a certain green one is also happy and nearly abed. This member is indeed safely home, tinners, and still on something of a high after a very enjoyable night out in 'decadent and hedonistic' Brighton. It's a rarer pleasure than by rights it ought to be to experience an orchestra and audience at one in so obviously relishing the music being performed. And I do hope 'a certain green one' fully noted the enthusiasm and affection coming his way from his home crowd, both players and audience. Very glad to have been there. |
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« Reply #3272 on: 09:41:28, 19-01-2008 » |
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Try this one which I had in a book when I was a kid but it was on Mind Games on BBC4 a couple of years ago.
A man has 2 woman friends and he can't decide which he prefers. They live in opposite directions on his local railway so he decides to turn up at the station at random times and get on the first train which arrives, whichever direction it's going in. The trains run every ten minutes in both directions so he reckons that he'll see them both equally frequently but he ends up seeing one 9 times more frequently than the other. Why?
I found it really funny when they were running little wooden trains through toy stations on the programme, trying to work the answer out.
Would the timetable look something like this: To A: 12.30 12.40 12.50 13.00 To B: 12.31 12.41 12.51 13.01 etc So if he arrives on the half hour or in the next minute he gets to B. If he arrives at 12.31 or any time in the next 9 minutes he gets to A. So he gets to A 9 times as likely as he gets to B? Tommo |
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« Reply #3274 on: 09:56:40, 19-01-2008 » |
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You're right of course Tommo  I enjoy watching Mind Games though it doesn't seem to be on at the moment. That particular problem was one where I knew the answer already so I was able to chuckle at them struggling and not solving it. However others they solve far quicker than me so I usually record it to allow myself to pause and so give myself more time to work it out. |
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« Reply #3275 on: 10:47:16, 19-01-2008 » |
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Are we hearing the voice of experience, Tommo?  Of course that's how I met Mrs 1780... Britsih Rail were so helpful in keeping to such a bizarre timetable. Andy - I wasn't sure whether that was what you meant, or whether there was some bit of the instructions I'd misread. Sorry if I spoiled the fun for everyone else. Is Mind Games that one with Marcus de Sautoy? I think I may have stumbled across it once and decided I couldn't stand the over-liberal helping of witter from the 'celebrities'. Give me Mastermind or University Challenge any day (although Mastermind has definitely dumbed down since Magnus Magnusson's time....) Tommo |
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« Reply #3276 on: 11:39:33, 19-01-2008 » |
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Is Mind Games that one with Marcus de Sautoy? I think I may have stumbled across it once and decided I couldn't stand the over-liberal helping of witter from the 'celebrities'. Give me Mastermind or University Challenge any day (although Mastermind has definitely dumbed down since Magnus Magnusson's time....)
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That's the one Tommo. I like the type of problems they have on there though the guests can be a bit annoying at times. Professor Kathy Sykes is good though  and at least they don't have Jeremy bloody Clarkson on (I wonder why!), he seems to be on everything else I watch. I used to watch University Challenge but I've never liked Mastermind - the specialist subject round always seems remarkably uninteresting. |
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« Reply #3277 on: 12:24:51, 19-01-2008 » |
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I tend to only tune in for the last half of Mastermind! Tommo |
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« Reply #3278 on: 12:36:27, 19-01-2008 » |
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You mean they might have done better to look at the train timetables instead? ;
You're on the right track George Here's my take... He would only see them equally often if the down train arrived five minutes after the up train. But if it arrives just one minute after then he will see the uptown girl just one time in ten and the downtown girl nine times in ten. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #3279 on: 12:44:26, 19-01-2008 » |
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You mean they might have done better to look at the train timetables instead? ;
You're on the right track George Here's my take... He would only see them equally often if the down train arrived five minutes after the up train. But if it arrives just one minute after then he will see the uptown girl just one time in ten and the downtown girl nine times in ten. When did he turn into Billy Joel? Tommo |
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« Reply #3280 on: 12:47:44, 19-01-2008 » |
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It's the way I tell 'em! 
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« Reply #3281 on: 18:03:05, 19-01-2008 » |
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This member is indeed safely home, tinners, and still on something of a high after a very enjoyable night out in 'decadent and hedonistic' Brighton. It's a rarer pleasure than by rights it ought to be to experience an orchestra and audience at one in so obviously relishing the music being performed. And I do hope 'a certain green one' fully noted the enthusiasm and affection coming his way from his home crowd, both players and audience. Very glad to have been there.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #3282 on: 19:36:56, 19-01-2008 » |
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Does anyone else know that feeling when... the composer of a fine new piece that you have been really impressed with and who has lots of important people to talk to, nonetheless kindly makes time to say hello to you, and you want to say how much you liked it in an intelligently analytical sort of way, and you hear a voice, which turns out to be your own, saying:
"Loved the growly double-bass bits."
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« Reply #3283 on: 20:20:02, 19-01-2008 » |
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"Loved the growly double-bass bits."
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