Number lookup website and watches
Dec. 13th, 2005 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack1. If I get annoyed by wearing something round my wrist, but would like a watch, are there any suggestions? Be retro and get a fob watch? At least I can do "spectacles testacles[1] wallet and watch[2]" crossing-myself[3]s then.
2. I seem to recall a website which did a reverse lookup on arbitrary numbers. So, would take a decimal[4], and say "pi^2" or "foo's constant" or "simple integral of expression". Did I imagine this? I can't find it.
3. How should I have titled this? Something about clock arithmetic[5]?
[1] Nuns on the Run is a good contender for "Film that should have been really awful, but was actually very funny." Though I think the ultimate winner was Pirates of the Caribean (potentially vulnerable to Pirates II).
[2] For the record, it's left then right, though the eastern orthodox do it the other way, and I can't believe any God most people worship would mind so long as it's sincere.
[3] Is there a word that means that? That looks clumsy?
[4] That is, a number typically specified to a largish but finite degree of precision. Not necessarily in base 10. Though it would be.
[5] I assumed everyone had heard of it, but teaching modular arithmatic made me realise apparently not. Clock arithmetic is like "11+2=1" and "12=0".
2. I seem to recall a website which did a reverse lookup on arbitrary numbers. So, would take a decimal[4], and say "pi^2" or "foo's constant" or "simple integral of expression". Did I imagine this? I can't find it.
3. How should I have titled this? Something about clock arithmetic[5]?
[1] Nuns on the Run is a good contender for "Film that should have been really awful, but was actually very funny." Though I think the ultimate winner was Pirates of the Caribean (potentially vulnerable to Pirates II).
[2] For the record, it's left then right, though the eastern orthodox do it the other way, and I can't believe any God most people worship would mind so long as it's sincere.
[3] Is there a word that means that? That looks clumsy?
[4] That is, a number typically specified to a largish but finite degree of precision. Not necessarily in base 10. Though it would be.
[5] I assumed everyone had heard of it, but teaching modular arithmatic made me realise apparently not. Clock arithmetic is like "11+2=1" and "12=0".