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[SimonMac]

Sounds like one for the mensa thread - how many cubes in a Rubik's cube?

How many squares or actual cubes?

[SimonMac]

Free Rubik's Cube on my desk this morning.

It's covered in corporate branding instead of stickers, much of which is on the same background colour, so it also functions a bit like a jigsaw

Did everyone get one or just the permies :

[eek]

How many squares or actual cubes?

ignoring the fact that each outer cube is not a cube and has additional plastic to hold it in place 27 and there is no cube in the middle (26 1x1x1 and 1 3x3x3)...

If it was a 3x3x3 cube of wooden building block cubes you would have 36 possible cubes (1 3x3x3, 8, 2x2x2 and 27 1x1x1)..

[mudskipper]

ignoring the fact that each outer cube is not a cube and has additional plastic to hold it in place 27 and there is no cube in the middle (26 1x1x1 and 1 3x3x3)...

If it was a 3x3x3 cube of wooden building block cubes you would have 36 possible cubes (1 3x3x3, 8, 2x2x2 and 27 1x1x1)..

A very comprehensive answer.
Now, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck (if a woodchuck could chuck wood)?

[eek]

A very comprehensive answer.
Now, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck (if a woodchuck could chuck wood)?

As much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood! or
A woodchuck would chuck so much wood he wouldn't know how much wood he chucked.

take your pick.

If other news <---- so went to help Suity in technical.... That descended quickly into insults before the discover suity has his terminology wrong and only provided a bit of the true picture....

[NickFitz]

Did everyone get one or just the permies :

Everyone. The entities who do this stuff don't have any way of knowing if a desk is currently used by a permie, a contractor, or whatever: they just drop the stuff at every desk that seems to have an occupant. They have been known to leave stuff on desks that have been recently vacated but still have gubbins left behind on them.

[eek]

Everyone. The entities who do this stuff don't have any way of knowing if a desk is currently used by a permie, a contractor, or whatever: they just drop the stuff at every desk that seems to have an occupant. They have been known to leave stuff on desks that have been recently vacated but still have gubbins left behind on them.

On a similarish question... If I get more freebies than the permies when they are given out (facilities like me and always give me 2 or 3 extra ones if there are any spare) is that an indicator of being outside IR35?

[NickFitz]

On a similarish question... If I get more freebies than the permies when they are given out (facilities like me and always give me 2 or 3 extra ones if there are any spare) is that an indicator of being outside IR35?

Sounds like the kind of thing they do when sucking up to a supplier, so definitely

[zeitghost]

Dear me.



In a vain hope of one of our less able esteemed customers getting somewhere, yesterday I printed out a datasheet for a transistor.

Admittedly it's a bit odd, being a Power FET and all that, and with 4 pins.

http://www.vishay.com/docs/91127/sihfd110.pdf

And the pinout ain't the clearest, so I drew a little box with the 4 pins on it looking down from above, with D, G & S in the proper places.



Then I drew a little diagram showing how you might connect it up.

Today he comes back saying it didn't work.

I'd neglected to show on my little diagram that you needed to connect it up to a power supply.



WTF do I bother?

[eek]

rather like my iphone 6 plus. Its been sat in my pocket for 3 days used exactly as I normally use a phone and its still got 45% battery left..