The famous fruit-chat quiz!
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by Weyland » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:48 am
God, I love the internet.
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by Istenem » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:08 am
i'll give it to NM as he was closest.
to calculate the largest possible circle to the smallest degree, you only need
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 (39 d.p.)
beyond that π has no application.
over to NM
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by Northern Monkey » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:13 pm
[quote="Istenem"]i'll give it to NM as he was closest.
to calculate the largest possible circle to the smallest degree, you only need
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 (39 d.p.)
beyond that π]
Not bad for my old school back of a fag packet approach to problem solving.
Although I have smoked em now so can't remeber how I got to it.
Anyways what was the last chemical element to be discovered naturally (as opposed to being synthesised in a laboratory) ?
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by Istenem » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:34 pm
crikey. this is going to be a stab in the dark:
californium?
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by Northern Monkey » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:22 pm
No.
Where's HE today, this is the sort of question that is normally meat and drink to him?
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by Istenem » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:52 pm
one of the ones from ytterby in sweden?
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by Weyland » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:36 pm
I'll guess uranium, on the grounds that plutonium only (usually?) occurs when uranium decays, which may or may not count as a natural process depending if it needs a reactor or not.
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by Northern Monkey » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:44 pm
Not sure about your physics weylando. IIRC Plutonium is synthetically made from bombarding uranium with neutrons, hence its higher atomic number.
Anyway its not right.
UP was close only in the sense that the one we are looking for is named after a place.
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by Istenem » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:30 pm
francium?
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