jonp

Actually, 53^8 = 62,259,690,411,361 (not ..360)

Here's a collection of the shortest finish in many games: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/1112.html

"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes" - JBS Haldane "On being the right size"

http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html

It looks like there is a way to delete: select a section of text (using Shift and arrow keys) then press Enter.

"UK" doesn't seem to be shown on the map. I think "UK" should be replaced by "GB" in the URL.

I'd come across a similar suggestion in a political context. Saying "we want a fair tax system" is meaningless, because any political party could say that.

Saying "we want higher taxes on the wealthy to help the poor" or "we want lower taxes on the wealthy to encourage investment" is meaningful and distinctive.

The world record stands at 21.19 seconds

(http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory.html#cards-speed)

Here's a JavaScript/HTML5/Canvas version.

You can view the first 100 diagrams in a grid or view the diagram for the N of your choice. There's also an option to view an alternative diagram where the drawing starts with the smallest prime instead of the smallest.

http://jsfiddle.net/FEKX2/3/

A tweetable (140 character) single line of Python:

print '\n'.join((lambda x:(''.join(x) if x else str(i)))([w+'zz' for (n,w) in ((3,'Fi'),(5,'Bu'),(7,'Ba')) if i%n==0]) for i in range(1,100))

Although you also "enjoy" inflation of over 6% pa. In both the US and SA returns are lagging behind inflation by around 1% pa.

One (admittedly rare) counterexample is the late Sir Clement Freud:

"We remain together. I call her 'my first wife' to keep her on her toes."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5165998/Sir-Clement-Freud...

I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparent.

As someone who does have difficulty conceiving of ways to spend a cosmological-scale lifespan, how might you spend it?

I built http://www.birthdaysudoku.com - sudoku puzzles customised to include a date of birth.

http://birthdaysudoku.com - personalised sudoku puzzles.

I've never made any money from it, but I get a kick out of knowing that people in far-away places are using something I've made.