The Sphinx's Lair

2:00 PM

:O I was looking at cities in England (I already knew East Coast around me had a lot of similar named cities as you) but didn't know you also had a Rochester

How do you pronounce that @GarethMcCaughan or @RosieF

Rosie F

@n_palum With the stress on the Roch (rhymes with botch).

Rand al'Thor

@n_palum ROTCH-ess-tur.

Gareth McCaughan

More or less the way you might expect. Ro (short "o" like "not") - chest - er. Stress on first syllable.

Rand al'Thor

It's not a Leicester/Bicester type job.

n_palum

Oh that's about the same as me

Gareth McCaughan

2:01 PM

(for those who don't know, those are pronounced lester and bister)

(and Worcester is wooster)

n_palum

Wasn't sure if it was drastically different

And I did know about those ^ ^^

I was waiting for you to post that.

Jonathan Allan

Oh my you hear 'em on the tube "Well we were told to go to Lie sester square"

Rosie F

@Randal'Thor Indeed not. -cester is pronounced "ster" (as if the ce were silent) but -chester behaves normally.

Rand al'Thor

2:02 PM

@GarethMcCaughan Oh, have I posted it in here before?

Pardon my repetitiveness.

Jonathan Allan

"Where is Ed in bow row on this map?"

Gareth McCaughan

I don't think so, but you posted his one about his fine musical instrument.

Low-brow University.

tee hee

indeed

2:03 PM

@GarethMcCaughan / @RosieF I go to a school in American Rochester - but back home, we also have a bunch of cities/towns taken from England

Ankoganit

Wow all these things are horrible

Rand al'Thor

@GarethMcCaughan I first came across him via the Shibboleth video, which someone linked in another room, and then checked out the rest of his stuff.

Gareth McCaughan

which particular things, and what sort of horrible?

Rand al'Thor

He's got a pretty good singing voice.

n_palum

Warrington, Warwick, Hampton

Ankoganit

2:04 PM

@GarethMcCaughan These pronunciation stuff

Gareth McCaughan

Yes, he has. I suspect he has a better singing voice than you'd think from these videos, too, when he isn't trying to play a character.

Rosie F

Alnwick.

n_palum

@JonathanAllan Meant to be Edinburgh?

Jonathan Allan

yes

humn

I'm still working on "Wednesday." (As in when I should've gone to bed. see you in my dreams.)

Jonathan Allan

2:07 PM

actually "eed in bow roh"

Did the song miss "St John"?

St John (name)

St John or St. John is a given name and surname. St John can be pronounced /ˈsɪndʒᵻn/ or /ˈsɪnʒən/, as if written Sinjin or Sinjun, particularly if it is the first part of a hyphenated family name or a given name in the United Kingdom. Use of the full stop separator is uncommon in some countries, especially those that use Commonwealth English. The first name may refer to: St John Grimbly, South African scholar St John Ervine, Irish writer St John Groser, Anglican priest and Christian socialist St John Horsfall, British motor racing driver St John Philby, British civil servant and explorer in Arabia...

Sid

Surprisingly, I have not been able to view Mathjax stuff. Does anyone know about any particular reason why that's the case?

n_palum

Is it really bow roh? and not more like bur row?

Jonathan Allan

no that was the mispronunciation. Its ed (like editor) in (like Indiana) buh (like but) ruh (like rut)

n_palum

Hmm

Ankoganit

@Sid which page?

Rosie F

2:11 PM

Barnoldwick is Barlick? Now that was a new one on me. It's worse than "Sloit" for Slaithwaite.

n_palum

Side note - when did Czech Republic become Czechia

Jonathan Allan

Featherstonehaugh is the boss.

Gareth McCaughan

Name of the Czech Republic

The name of the Czech Republic derives from the Slavic tribe of Czechs (Czech: Češi). The Kingdom of Bohemia existed between 1085 and 1348, and from 1348 to 1918 it is referred to as the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. After the break-up of the Habsburg Empire, which the kingdom was part of since the seventeenth century, the new country Czechoslovakia was created by the union of the Czech lands and Slovakia. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in the so-called "Velvet Divorce" of 1993, the name "the Czech Republic" (Czech: Česká republika) was created as the official long-form name. The official...

> Six months after the name Czechia was adopted, The Guardian reported that the new name is hardly in use, even on the official Czech government websites.

n_palum

Hmm interesting.. It's listed as Czechia on Google Maps

Sid

@Anko puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/51160/…

Ankoganit

2:14 PM

works fine for me, strange

Sid

Strangely, Mathjax doesn't work anywhere for me, now..

Ankoganit

Are you one phone or computer?

*on

Sconibulus

Do you have a firewall or something blocking a js library?

Sid

I am on computer at home. (which essentially means I know nothing of What this thing has or has not)

Ankoganit

try a different browser maybe?

Sid

2:19 PM

Nope, doesn't work even on a different browser

Sphinx

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Q: Another picture puzzle _________

A single word connects these images: What is the word, and what are the connections?

Ankoganit

@Sid how do they look? plain latex markup with all those dollars? Or can you at least see the html rendering?

Sid

Latex markup with dollars...

Rosie F

Anyone here into writing mathematical papers? I don't necessarily mean cutting-edge research, but less-important stuff, perhaps. Recreational mathematics, you might say.

Ankoganit

@Sid this might help

Rand al'Thor

2:22 PM

@JonathanAllan Trottiscliffe -> "Trozly" was my favourite. I laughed out loud at that point.

Jonathan Allan

how else would you pronounce it? :p

Gareth McCaughan

@RosieF Rand al'Thor is a professional (academic) mathematician.

user278208

Why this is getting downvoted, even though it answers the question perfectly ? (And #2 ,#3 are based on the first trick)

Sid

@Wellyeah Try not to be too lazy and give the full answer. People tend to like full answers better.

Rosie F

@GarethMcCaughan Gosh, Didn't know that. And you told me that you are, yourself, IIRC? Anyway, I just wondered if you knew of any publication that would take papers about recreational mathematical subjects -- results which as far as I have been able to tell by Googling are beyond what has alrady been published.

I guess that the stuff wouldn't be considered important enough for arXiv, from what I've seen of arXiv.

Gareth McCaughan

2:28 PM

I was, once, but not for very long. Now I'm working in industry.

user278208

@RosieF Why not ~~share 'em~~ tell the abstract here ?

Gareth McCaughan

There are journals devoted to recreational mathematics, and others with an education-y focus that might be interested.

Jonathan Allan

@Wellyeah also it doesn't actually answer it.

Gareth McCaughan

E.g., if what you're doing happens to have anything to do with the Fibonacci sequence, there's the Fibonacci Quarterly.

Rosie F

@Wellyeah Hmm. Isn't this really meant to be Q&A? I know that it's acceptable for the OP to post an answer to their own question, but to post an answer that you already knew before you even posted the question would seem to me to be against the spirit of the site.

Ankoganit

2:30 PM

There's a journal just for Fibonacci things? That's interesting.

user278208

@JonathanAllan Lagrange polynomial answers this (type of) question(s) perfectly. (Also, I don't see why it doesn't works)

Gareth McCaughan

Or you could consider the American Mathematical Monthly in the US or the Mathematical Gazette in the UK. Neither is exactly recreational, but either might be interested in recreational mathsy things.

Jonathan Allan

... you dont even say what the missing numbers are using your method.

user278208

@RosieF In the chat, not the main site.

user278208

@RosieF There was also a site for cool stuffs in Conway's game of life.

Rosie F

2:31 PM

@Wellyeah Golly!

Sconibulus

...a mathematics paper in chat would not be at all appropriate, aren't they often dozens of papers with diagrams?

Jonathan Allan