Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

That's true, but another question is whether any infinite series of digits will also appear at some point in pi? Worrying about that sort of question is how mathematicians come up with different sorts of infinity. Lydia will be along in a minute to explain it.

Nah - that sort of question is the reason I'm a scientist rather than a mathematician.

GDB2222 wrote: »

I tried my 8 digit birthday and it was not found. That site uses the first 1.25m digits. I feel sure that loads more digits are known. There's no length of a sequence that automatically cannot be found in those 1.25m. For example, the sequence 926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 is contained in it, even though it's 95 digits long.

[pedant mode] Well obviously any length of sequence that's >1.25m isn't going to be found in it. [/pedant mode]

lostinrates wrote: »

You know, in general i think waitrose cakes that i have tried have been somewhat...ordinary, with a tendency to be dry. I understand the cupcakes and fairy cakes are good though, and i think the pastries are good.

Pastries are particularly good at the Co-op - well, they are at the two round here, although I've never tried them anywhere else. And Co-op croissants are awesome - no other croissant quite hits the spot for me now I've discovered the Co-op ones.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Pastries are particularly good at the Co-op - well, they are at the two round here, although I've never tried them anywhere else. And Co-op croissants are awesome - no other croissant quite hits the spot for me now I've discovered the Co-op ones.

I hate the way they're sitting exposed in baskets... god knows what/who's touched them, dropped them, poked them, coughed on them up to the point you're there.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

10 here, if you include the Waitrose Cookery School, but I'm in the middle of London. It might take me a long time to get to branches that are only a few miles away. More importantly how do you get the round-robin distance?

i didn't, i just made it up so we could have a "round trip" discussion like old times.

there are two large waitroses within a 15 minute walk of my house. the branch finder lists 6 stores in total, which if i drove to each one and then home and then to the next one and so on would be a total of 33 miles.

but given that SW london traffic is the worst traffic in the world ever, the round trip to the fulham one, which is 4.7 miles away, would probably (not even exaggerating) take longer than it would have done for pastures to drive to one 50 miles away in the sticks.

westfield shepards bush is only 3 miles from my house and that takes at least half an hour in each direction, and once took me 2.5 hours to get back (admittedly there had been an accident on the hammersmith gyratory.

chewmylegoff

LydiaJ wrote: »

Pastries are particularly good at the Co-op - well, they are at the two round here, although I've never tried them anywhere else. And Co-op croissants are awesome - no other croissant quite hits the spot for me now I've discovered the Co-op ones.

co-op sells the best supermarket eggs as well.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I try to avoid all cupcakes.... on the basis that's the American name and is exceedinly annoying..... they're buns.

fairy cakes is not an americanism though. well i'm pretty sure it isn't because they used to go on about them all the time in willo' the wisp.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I try to avoid all cupcakes.... on the basis that's the American name and is exceedinly annoying..... they're buns.


I don't go into supermarket cafes .... if I've just shopped and have food in my trolley for the next X days, I don't want to go and have a sub-standard meal in the supermarket.... I'd rather crack on and get home

Is there an old-fashioned, old-lady-run, WI-style, cafe in the Cathedral? Top tip when visiting Cornwall is to go into Truro Cathedral's cafe.... it's brilliant. Cheap, good range, served by little old ladies, lots of room/big tables... and not many people know it's there.

For an MSE-style lunch in St Ives, I'd suggest being served by the people with learning disabilities in the Zion Community Church, beside the intriguingly named Salubrious Place, TR26 1HE.

There's a place in Falmouth too ....

These are cheap, old-fashioned church-style tea/cake/simple meals places... usually priced at £3-4 for a meal.

Is not a bun something with yeast in it? Like chelsea bun? Hot cross bun? I think of a faury cake as being a cake with flat icing, ( i also call these pooh cakes) and a cup cake being a buttercream, bigger iced affair.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i didn't, i just made it up so we could have a "round trip" discussion like old times.

there are two large waitroses within a 15 minute walk of my house. the branch finder lists 6 stores in total, which if i drove to each one and then home and then to the next one and so on would be a total of 33 miles.

but given that SW london traffic is the worst traffic in the world ever, the round trip to the fulham one, which is 4.7 miles away, would probably (not even exaggerating) take longer than it would have done for pastures to drive to one 50 miles away in the sticks.

westfield shepards bush is only 3 miles from my house and that takes at least half an hour in each direction, and once took me 2.5 hours to get back (admittedly there had been an accident on the hammersmith gyratory.

I don't get westfield. For the 'posh' shops why not go theroper versions of them? Why put them in shepards bush?

Fwiw i know a few peoplein retail who do not 'get' westfield either. I have not been there fwiw. Maybe it would make sense if i saw it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Is not a bun something with yeast in it? Like chelsea bun? Hot cross bun? I think of a faury cake as being a cake with flat icing, ( i also call these pooh cakes) and a cup cake being a buttercream, bigger iced affair.

I think fairy cake was the word I was looking for. But in my youth buns were just little sponge cakes of any sort.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

fairy cakes is not an americanism though. well i'm pretty sure it isn't because they used to go on about them all the time in willo' the wisp.

A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Australian English: patty cake or cup cake) ...

The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of "a cake to be baked in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_cakes

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Surely anything divided by itself is 1.

No because one infinity can be infinity times bigger than the other and so would divide into it infinity times.

infinity x infinity = infinity.

To be pedantic, in answer to your post, zero divided by zero is not zero.