The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[TheStatutoryApe]

OMG! Augusta Ada King! APE!?

Yes correct.
Sorry I had to go again.

 

[JamesU]

Well come on yomamma, how about another clue?

okay...it's VERY related to our smileys. but it has a special characteristic that the smileys don't

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Okay, how about giving it up and pick a new one?

 

[JamesU]

k you go ivan

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What was it?

 

[JamesU]

it was a sphere

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Ah... clever. I've never really been very good at those types of riddles. You want to try another or wait for Ivan to get back?

 

[Gokul43201]

I thought so, so I'll go next

In 1897 the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that (amongst other things) proclaimed that "this thing" henceforth take the value of about 9.2. Entirely by accident, the bill didn't make it past the Senate.

What was it ?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Hahahahahaha... that's hilarious.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I thought so, so I'll go next

In 1897 the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that (amongst other things) proclaimed that "this thing" henceforth take the value of about 9.2. Entirely by accident, the bill didn't make it past the Senate.

What was it ?

Is that unitless?

 

[Moonbear]

I thought so, so I'll go next

In 1897 the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that (amongst other things) proclaimed that "this thing" henceforth take the value of about 9.2. Entirely by accident, the bill didn't make it past the Senate.

What was it ?

Oh my, it was pi!

The critical passage in the bill is: "...disclosing the fourth important fact, that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four..." This statement claims that pi = 3.2 should be the law of Indiana (there is another passage that can be interpreted as giving a value of pi equal to 16/sqrt(3) which is approximately equal to 9.2).

http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Ilan.Vardi/pi.html

 

[Moonbear]

I've lost track here...was this an interim clue or an official clue? I can give one unless we're waiting for another.

Edit: Nevermind, I'm going to sleep. I wouldn't want to start a clue and then leave.

 

[wolram]

One for the future, It flies but has no wings, it is not monochromatic but is
mono.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Mag-Lev? A monorail?

 

[brewnog]

Ahhh! I reckon you might have hit the nail on the, urm, spot there.

 

[Danger]

Ahhh! I reckon you might have hit the nail on the, urm, spot there.

Naw, you silly bugger. It's obviously fly-fishing line...




I might have to hit the panic rack and get out of here with zero notice pretty soon. Lightning in the area and I don't have a surge protector.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Moonbear is due a question anyway.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

WOW! Moonbear is not here!

Okay, here's one.

Two years before Special Relativity, what unlikely event transpired that would later become a daily occurence.

 

[Danger]

Two years before Special Relativity, what unlikely event transpired that would later become a daily occurence.

Powered flight?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Not powered flight...

Unlikely in the sense of all four coordinates.

 

[dextercioby]

Le prémière Tour de France...?

First powered heavier-than-air flight?

Daniel.

 

[dextercioby]

Lorentz transformations...?(Lorentzian boosts).

Wiki gives it to 1904.

Daniel.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No, eh no. But of the four coordinates, we really need only consider three coordinates each. The third coordinate necessarily being the same according to the first two.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So as not to be too vague

Two years before Special Relativity, what unlikely event transpired that would later become a daily occurence.

that was unlikely in the sense of the (all four) coordinates. [But of the four coordinates, we really need only consider three coordinates each. The third coordinate necessarily being the same according to the first two].

So we are talking about two things involved in this event.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

41.6 X 84.7
41.9 X 80.5
39.6 X 80.9
39.1 X 84.8

 

[Ivan Seeking]

41.6n X 84.7w
41.9n X 80.5w
39.6n X 80.9w
39.1n X 84.8w

1903?

 

[rachmaninoff]

Something that happened in Ohio?

 

[wolram]

Mag-Lev? A monorail?
nyet

 

[FredGarvin]

The Wright Brothers flew their glider in 1903.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Something that happened in Ohio?

Yes, but since Wolram is still up I just post my answer.

The first two car crash occurred in Ohio in 1903. They had been the only two cars in the state at the time.

http://www.weitzlux.com/freecarcrashattorneyevaluation_764.html

Unlikely but true, the two cars had to be in the same place at the same time, hence the four coordinates, but the third, altitude, is determined by the first two when confined to the Earth's surface. The four sets of numbers given next were the approx latitude and longitude of the four corners of the state of Ohio.

 

[wolram]

oh this is so confusing, my clue is so easy, mono = singular, i can not keep up
with this thread, the fly is not adverse no cabbage

 

[Ivan Seeking]

the fly is not adverse no cabbage

Was that an error or a clue?

 

[Mk]

Spider's silk?

 

[wolram]

Was that an error or a clue?

oh cobblers,sorry. it should be, "not adverse to cabbage".
fly, single, no wings, salute.

 

[Mk]

Uhm, more hints? Is it a machine?