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modified 6-Feb-17 9:46am.
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Why would you think that we would know anything at all about that website?
Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec
Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec
Speed of stupid - instantaneous.
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xiecsuk wrote: Any suggestions?
It displays fine in Chrome.
/ravi
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Well, it doesn't for me. I have installed Chrome and it is still failing. I am getting the following:-
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Request Blocked)
AS this is the front end for the Royal Bank of Scotland's on-line banking service, something is wrong somewhere. The question is where?
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Perhaps your IP address is blocked. Try using a VPN or from work?
/ravi
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Don't use IE.
No seriously, use another browser? I actually checked the link. It works fine here. I must be crazy, following strange links. And it's only the beginning of the week too.
Maybe you've got some add-on blocking it? No idea what add-ons are available on IE, just a thought.
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Nighthowler wrote: Don't use IE.
I actually saw their username as IESucks at first anyway. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No problem - just move your account to another bank.
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That's too much hassle.
He should just hand all his money over to me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe some of your Nigerian friends can help him out ?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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ZENO'S PARADOX
An athlete can jump infinitely, but each of his jumps are the half of the previous one...
Starting with a jump of half meter, how many jumps it will take to reach 1 meter?
And while we all know the answer, I would like to know why in reality it is not true!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But it is true: try it.
You can no longer reach your coffee... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sigh[^]... I'm so happy that I do not drink coffee... fortunately the tea still in my reach...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Only briefly: it's all quantum. And as Heisenberg states "I AM the danger" you cannot know the position and speed of anything at the same time. Therefore, if you measure the position of the athlete at any point in the movement, his speed cannot be determined and he has probably arrived somewhere else already.
Alternatively:
Quote: Heat crackled off the white walls of the tavern but, Teppic thought, how different it was from the Old Kingdom. There even the heat was old; the air was musty and lifeless, it pressed like a vice, you felt it was made of boiled centuries. Here it was leavened by the breeze from the sea. It was edged with salt crystals. It carried exciting hints of wine; more than a hint in fact, because Xeno was already on his second amphora. This was the kind of place where things rolled up their sleeves and started.
“But I still don’t understand about the tortoise,” he said, with some difficulty. He’d just taken his first mouthful of Ephebian wine, and it had apparently varnished the back of his throat.
“’S quite simple,” said Xeno. “Look, let’s say this olive stone is the arrow and this, and this—” he cast around aimlessly—“and this stunned seagull is the tortoise, right? Now, when you fire the arrow it goes from here to the seag—the tortoise, am I right?”
“I suppose so, but—”
“But, by this time, the seagu—the tortoise has moved on a bit, hasn’t he? Am I right?”
“I suppose so,” said Teppic, helplessly. Xeno gave him a look of triumph.
“So the arrow has to go a bit further, doesn’t it, to where the tortoise is now. Meanwhile the tortoise has flow—moved on, not much, I’ll grant you, but it doesn’t have to be much. Am I right? So the arrow has a bit further to go, but the point is that by the time it gets to where the tortoise is now the tortoise isn’t there. So, if the tortoise keeps moving, the arrow will never hit it. It’ll keep getting closer and closer but never hit it. QED.”
“Are you right?” said Teppic automatically.
“No,” said Ibid coldly. “There’s a dozen tortoise kebabs to prove him wrong. The trouble with my friend here is that he doesn’t know the difference between a postulate and a metaphor of human existence. Or a hole in the ground.”
“It didn’t hit it yesterday,” snapped Xeno.
“Yes, I was watching. You hardly pulled the string back. I saw you,” said Ibid.
The Late Great Sir PTerry, Pyramids
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I am currently* rereading from Colour of Magic to Shepherd's Crown in order. The book I am on funnily enough is Pyramids; at the bit just after the King has died and Ptepic is on the Brass Bridge.
Bloody seagulls!
veni bibi saltavi
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Wanna buy a grilled tortoise? Onna stick?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A more difficult and interesting puzzle would be:
What is the smallest first jump the athlete must make to eventually get to 1 meter?
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Do you mean in finite jumps?
That's not a problem - 1 meter...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No, that's the jump for minimum number of jumps. My question is what is the smallest first jump that will eventually get to a distance of 1 meter (e.g. 1st jump = 2/3rd meter + 2nd jump 1/3 meter = 1 meter). We know that 1/2 meter 1st jump never gets there - each jump gets to half the remaining distance. What is the minimum 1st jump distance that will get there (with unlimited number of jumps allowed).
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I see what do you mean... However it is the one and only solution - starting with the 2/3 of the requested distance...
See this:
1 = x/n0 + x/21 + x/22 + ... + x/2n
It is easy (relatively) to prove that for that there is only one solution x = 2/3...
The trick is to start with 1 part of the distance. In that case the distance made by the athlete after n jumps can be written like this (the initial jumps is 1/base):
(2n-1 + 2n-2 + 2n-3 + ... + n0) / base * 2n-1
And that number never reaches 1...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 6-Feb-17 8:48am.
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No - actually, the smallest distance > 1/2 meter will eventually get there. Even .50000000(with a million zeros)1 will. The interesting thing is that it is impossible to express that number, but eventually, the fractional part, however small, will cover at least the remaining distance to the full meter (it may be not be exactly the meter, but marginally greater than).
change your equation to
1 <= x/20 + x/21 + x/22 + ... + x/2n
Also, just try it with the calculator with x = .51, and then x= .501, and you will see what I mean - they only take a few jumps each.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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The problem is that .51 and .50000....00001 are not real numbers...
Zeno (and me too) are people of the real world... And that's the exact problem... Computation with real numbers gets you nowhere, but in reality it is not true!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's not true.| # Steps Needed - - - - | Starting Distance From 0 | | 1 | 2/3 | | 2 | 4/7 | | 3 | 8/15 | | n | 2n/2n+1-1 |
However, anything greater than half will get above 1, but never on 1, except for the fractions shown.
CP bug? Table not appearing immediately after text.
modified 6-Feb-17 8:42am.
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What's not true? You just proved, that you can not get to 1 meter... or above or below...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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2/3 + 1/3 = 1
4/7 + 2/7 + 1/7 = 1
8/15 + 4/15 + 2/15 + 1/15 = 1
All the fractional distances that I showed you lead to 1 in n number of steps.
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