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Tuesday, November 26, 2024 |
Short Takes   
Date: Sent Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Category: None | Rating: 2.55/5 (84 votes)
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First, the joke, then comments about yesterday's quiz...
One morning a local highway department crew reaches their job-site and realizes they have forgotten all their shovels. The crew's foreman radios the
office and tells his supervisor the situation.
The supervisor radios back and says, "Don't worry, we'll send some shovels... just lean on each other until they arrive."
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Sorry we are late today, but I wanted to include these comments regarding yesterday's quiz. I received several additional answers that I thought you
might enjoy reading. to keep it short, I only put the name of the first person to send in a particular answer.
1. There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
Our answer: Boxing
Another answer: "The US election!" -- LK Ooi
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What
are the only two perennial vegetables?
Our answer: Asparagus and rhubarb.
Others: "Broccoli also keeps growing year after year & doesn't have to be replanted. Don't believe me? look in our garden." -- CJ Culbert
"Question #3 should include leeks." -- Bob Watt
5. What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the
ball?
Our answer: Baseball.
Another one: Cricket. -- Adam Eadie
8. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.
ANSWER: Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
dweeb - M. G. Lathem
dwaddle - Charlie Fehrman
Finally, a lot of people disagreed with the answer to number 4. " The hour and minute hands cross at 1:05, 2:10, 3:15, 4:20, 5:25, 6:30, 7:35, 8:40,
9:45, 10:50, and 11:55. Unless you have a special way to count, that is eleven and not ten. How do you get 10?" Here is our explanation:
The 11:55 time you listed really happens at noon or midnight. You are not taking into account that the hour hand is somewhere between the numbers
when it is not on the hour.
*** WARNING: Entering the geek zone! ***
Because I'm such a geek I decided to write a small program to calculate the exact times that the hands are as close as possible, down to the second!
 Here are the results (including the angle in degrees between the hour and minute hands at
that time):
12:00:00 0.0000 (noon and midnight)
01:05:27 0.0250 degrees
02:10:55 0.0417
03:16:22 0.0167
04:21:49 0.0083
05:27:16 0.0333
06:32:44 0.0333
07:38:11 0.0083
08:43:38 0.0167
09:49:05 0.0417
10:54:33 0.0250
For those that are geeky like me, here is the C program I used. I'm sure there are better
ways, but I cranked this out in a few minutes...
#include "stdio.h" #include "math.h" int main(void) { int hour, minute, second; double angle_hour, angle_min, diff;
for (hour = 0; hour < 12; hour++) { for (minute = 0; minute < 60; minute++) { for (second = 0; second < 60;
second++) { angle_min = (360.0 / 60.0 / 60.0) * (double)((minute * 60) + second); angle_hour =
(360.0 / 60.0 / 60.0 / 12.0) * (double)((hour * 3600) + (minute * 60) + second); diff = angle_min - angle_hour;
if (fabs(diff) < 0.049) { printf("%02d:%02d:%02d %g\n", hour, minute, second, diff); }
} } } return 0; }
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