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Stiv
Stiv
8:31 AM
CCCC: Snob races about clutching diamonds? (6)
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
12:30 PM
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Q: 499 and the Gamma Function

Bernardo Recamán SantosFolks elsewhere in this very same sight have been working hard to express positive integers in the binary system using merely two ones and two zeros. They have been allowed to use the four basic arithmetic operations, exponentiation, concatenation, brackets, fractions, factorials (including doubl...

mathematics formation-of-numbers
 
 
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oAlt
oAlt
3:53 PM
How did I not spot this sooner? @Stiv this is just CARBON (which is what diamonds structurally are) which is clutched by s(NOB RAC)es backwards (about)
Well I think it's because I got misled - my instinct was to interpret "clutching diamonds" as D being clutched by the rest of the wordplay
 
 
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Stiv
Stiv
6:19 PM
@oAlt Haha, yep :) That's right!
 
 
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humn
humn
8:25 PM
Moderators, please don't be annoyed by me.
I play to lope along, not to trip.
Key words, "play along."
 
 
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Jafe
Jafe
10:26 PM
@oAlt yeah especially with "about" (valid anagrind) there and "races" being the right number of letters
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
11:42 PM
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Q: Find the next pattern in the sequence of patterns!

QuarkoniumThe following are 2 sequences from an IQ test. The task is to find the next logical pattern in the sequence. Please help me find the solution. Sequence 1: Sequence 2:

visual pattern geometry sequence
 

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