| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3505 Registered: 4-2010 |
What sequence starts with 51 and ends with 11? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2783 Registered: 1-2007 |
Are Roman numerals relevant at all? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3507 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are Roman numerals relevant at all? No | ||
| Mattiel (Mattiel)
New member Username: Mattiel Post Number: 234 Registered: 6-2005 |
Are there only numbers in the sequence? If not, are there letters? Symbols? Relevant if the sequence is written or pronounced? If so, relevant where is it written? By whom is it pronounced? Relevant the font used to write the sequence? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3509 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are there only numbers in the sequence? Yope If not, are there letters? Yope Symbols? Yope Relevant if the sequence is written or pronounced? Yes - it is pronounced If so, relevant where is it written? See previous By whom is it pronounced? Yesish Relevant the font used to write the sequence? See previous | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3072 Registered: 9-2009 |
Roman numerals relevant? Relevant how it's pronounced? In what language? Or dialect? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3512 Registered: 4-2010 |
Roman numerals relevant? No Relevant how it's pronounced? Yes, DOYD of "how" In what language? No (tiny ish) Or dialect? No (tinier ish) | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3074 Registered: 9-2009 |
Speech impediment relevant? Or other impairment? Is 51 pronounced "fifty-one"? Is 11 pronounced "eleven"? Does either pronunciation sound like some other word (or several words)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3513 Registered: 4-2010 |
Speech impediment relevant? No Or other impairment? No Is 51 pronounced "fifty-one"? FA Is 11 pronounced "eleven"? FA Does either pronunciation sound like some other word (or several words)? Yopish, FA | ||
| Mattiel (Mattiel)
New member Username: Mattiel Post Number: 235 Registered: 6-2005 |
Is the sound of the "pronounced" sequence similar to some word, or phrase? Example: in french the word "cassette" is often written "K7", as "K" is pronounced "ka" and 7 "sept", giving "ka-sept" Is the sequence completed by 1 more number/character? 2? 3? [LTPF list of integers]? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3516 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the sound of the "pronounced" sequence similar to some word, or phrase? Not "similar to," but... Example: in french the word "cassette" is often written "K7", as "K" is pronounced "ka" and 7 "sept", giving "ka-sept" Not this Is the sequence completed by 1 more number/character? 2? 3? [LTPF list of integers]? 100 others, for a total of 102. And neither "number" nor "character" is the word I'd use, though "character" is closer. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 1286 Registered: 10-2008 |
Is the sequence mostly made of things that cannot be expressed in numeric form? Or, if they can be expressed as numbers, would any of them be integers between 11 and 51? Would any be higher than 51? Lower than 11? Would any be fractions? Decimals? Negatives? Is the sequence made up of things that are being represented by numbers? If so, tangible things? People? Does the sequence follow a predictable mathematical pattern? An alphabetical one? Chronological? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3522 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the sequence mostly made of things that cannot be expressed in numeric form? They can be, but usually are not. Or, if they can be expressed as numbers, would any of them be integers between 11 and 51? Would any be higher than 51? Lower than 11? Would any be fractions? Decimals? Negatives? If expressed as numbers, they would be the integers 1 through 102. Is the sequence made up of things that are being represented by numbers? Yes! If so, tangible things? Yes People? Not this Does the sequence follow a predictable mathematical pattern? No An alphabetical one? No Chronological? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3080 Registered: 9-2009 |
Are they part of a game? Are they on a list? Is computer science relevant? Math? Some sort of top list? R.E.M. relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3524 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are they part of a game? No Are they on a list? Yesish Is computer science relevant? Not computer science, but... Math? No Some sort of top list? No R.E.M. relevant? No =) | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3082 Registered: 9-2009 |
Are the numbers some sort of ranking? Is 11 at the top of the list? And 51 at the bottom? And all others in between? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3526 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are the numbers some sort of ranking? No Is 11 at the top of the list? No And 51 at the bottom? No And all others in between? But yes | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3084 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is 51 at the top of the list? And 11 at the bottom? Is something chronological involved? Were the numbers assigned in another list? Is a field of science relevant? Chemistry? The periodic table of elements? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 154 Registered: 8-2010 |
It's the order of the elements in the Tom Lehrer song, isn't it? (begins with antimony = 51, ends with sodium = 11) | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2791 Registered: 1-2007 |
Gah I was going to ask about the periodic table. Inspired guess Whirligig which I'm sure is right. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 3529 Registered: 4-2010 |
It's the order of the elements in the Tom Lehrer song, isn't it? (begins with antimony = 51, ends with sodium = 11) Indeed it is, and that means it's time for a **********SPOILER********** "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium. Europium, zircodium, lutetium, vanadium, And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium, and indium, and gallium... And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. "There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium. "There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium And lead, praesyodinium, and platinum, plutonium, Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium... And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. "There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium. "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hah'vard... And there may be many others but they haven't been discah'vered." As Whirligig correctly determined, the song leads off with the 51st element and closes with the 11th. And yes, I have this song memorized. Nice job, everybody. | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 159 Registered: 8-2010 |
Shoot, you have the whole thing memorized? I only know half of it. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 6 Registered: 9-2010 |
Quote: "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hah'vard... And there may be many others but they haven't been discah'vered." Some more have by now, haven't they? *isn't sure what's left* Although that song drives me nuts. I love it, but it drives me insane. I was just about to go to bed...and it's in my head now!! AGH!! Lol! | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4855 Registered: 4-2010 |
What's left? Well, a whole bunch named after people....lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium, darmstadtium, roentgenium, and copernicium, not counting the ones that have the numerical names. BTW, the title - Lehrer's concerts were called "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer." And of course, there's Lehrer's "Ancient Greek" version of the song... "There's earth and air and fire and water." Much easier to memorize. |
