test please delete

[BrowneIssue]

Thank your lucky stars that Phil just liked golden rain...

It could have been much worse...

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Well done!

[BrowneIssue]

Been trying to understand the jumper settings on a motherboard.

It's got about 97 different ones.

158456325028528675187087900672 combinations? That'll keep you amused.

[NickFitz]

Hi AtW

Come to increase your post count with some drivelling?

<- manly

[NickFitz]

It does come as rather a shock when one's lady is more perverse than oneself....

A pleasant surprise, up to a point

[NickFitz]

Ok. 97 was an exaggeration, there are 14 jumpers... does that make 14! combinations?

I can't remember.

Assuming they're either on or off, it would be 2^14, which is of course 16384

[BrowneIssue]

Ok. 97 was an exaggeration, there are 14 jumpers... does that make 14! combinations?

I can't remember.

A jumper is effectively a switch: either on or off.

So it it is 2 possibilities x 2 possibilities x 2 possibilities ... 14 times.

So 2^14. = 16,384

[NickFitz]

Nah.

It's 2^14... 16K

Assuming they're either on or off, it would be 2^14, which is of course 16384

Ah, you beat me to it

[NickFitz]

Looks like it's turning into a chorus-of-the-powers-of-2 evening in TPD

[BrowneIssue]

Professor Heinz Wolff got such a thing wrong when I was about 12 on The Great Egg Race on TV.

A team had to produce a doorlock. Theirs had ten matches that could either be short or long which, when inserted correctly would allow the lock to open.

2 possibilities, ten times = 2^10 = 1024.

Professor Heinz Beanz said it was 10 factorial.

I was jumping up and down on the sofa saying he as wrong; my big bruvvas agreed that he could not possibly be wrong 'cos he's a Professor and on the TV.

Arrogant fake-German ignorant twat.

[NickFitz]

14! is 8.71e10

87,178,291,200

I rather like the fact that, when you copy a result from the Mac's Calculator and paste it into a text field, it automatically puts the commas in for you - assuming your locale is one where commas are appropriate, of course