My guess was a binary counter combined with an adder, with delay equalling 2+8*D1+16*D2+32*D3+64*D4. But I don't own one, so I can't directly verify.
I am certainly going to miss mass markets, and cherish some of the ones I have (Cornell Woolrich’s Black novels ftw). But some of the ones I’ve pulled off the shelf lately are virtually unreadable, like a copy of 1984 that looks like it was printed entirely in 8-point bold.
Given the information on the back, how do the dip switches (likely) work? How much of a delay is the current setting?
The golden snake is definitely a top 10 animal.
The probability seed m beats seed n is n^β/(m^β + n^β) for β≥1. We have a standard knockout tournament with 2^k players seeded 1..2^k i.e. seed s faces seed 2^k+1-s in the first round etc. For which β does seed 1 have a positive probability of winning the tournament as k → ∞?
A person with n dice attacks a person with n dice. We match highest dice, then next highest and so on. Ties go to the defender. The asymptotic expected number of losses for the defender is c*sqrt(n) for some constant c. What is c?
I don't know if this is common knowledge, but two quantumly-entangled hyper-aliens could (probabilistically) convince you that a particular Turing machine eventually halted, even if it'd take 10^500 steps. (assuming my understanding is correct)
arxiv.org/abs/2001.043...
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Stopped in Oxfam for some fair-trade chocolate and came away with a new hobby
Arrange the following three sums in increasing order of size, where n goes from 1 to infinity.
A. Sum[(-1)^(n+1) sin(n)/n]
B. Sum[(-1)^(n+1) (sin(n)/n)^2]
C. Sum[(-1)^(n+1) (sin(n)/n)^3]
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I think @gregegansf.bsky.social will find this one particularly interesting.
Hello, everyone. I'll be importing my followers from the Bad Place this week, so please have patience.
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Looking for thoughts on these digital subscriptions. I've subscribed to most of these at some point in the past, but as physical subscriptions.
New York Review of Books
London Review of Books
Times Literary Supplement
LA Review of Books
The New Yorker
Boston Review
n+1
Paris Review
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