Rachel M September 2, 2016 Journal

A mathematician’s clock

Our new clock arrived to replace the one I broke. I really like it. I love that every number is a three. Three is a prime number too and primes are the best.

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Victor Venema on September 2, 2016 at 3:14 pm
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Always 3 3s! 🙂
I do not get the notation used to get the 10.
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  Rachel M on September 2, 2016 at 3:17 pm
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  Yeah, I had to ask Ben that one. It’s 3 x 3.3333333333333……
  
  The 3 with a line above it means 3 repeating.
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    Victor Venema on September 2, 2016 at 4:45 pm
    
    And it is European clock, not an English one. Did not know about the line above, but had the clock used a decimal dot, I might have guessed. Let’s hope Scotland joins the EU, when England for some reason wants to get out.
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    Rachel M on September 2, 2016 at 4:46 pm
    
    Yeah, the comma is a bit annoying. I would prefer a decimal dot. Does all of Europe use the comma?
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    Victor Venema on September 2, 2016 at 5:11 pm
    
    Had to look it up to be sure.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
    
    Looks like it are again the countries that suffer most under mitigation sceptics that are the exception and use a decimal dot.
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    Rachel M on September 2, 2016 at 8:35 pm
    
    So all we need to do is get the whole world to use a comma and climate change will be solved 🙂
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    Victor Venema on September 2, 2016 at 11:13 pm
    
    Rachel, Rachel, Rachel, you know that correlation is not causation. 🙂
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Sarah Hird on September 3, 2016 at 3:45 am
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Primed for action!
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  Rachel M on September 3, 2016 at 6:04 am
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  Very nice!

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