Brilliant ! I now have a plan for the new word. Something fiendishly geometric and obtuse like 'Calabi-Yau subspace closure' or likewise poncy-highbrow-my-IQ-is-higher-than-your-IQ type of word.
Glad to be of service. Do you suppose you might return the favor by actually posting said new word before you go gallivanting acutely off to the beach?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Oh... you made it all red for us, Mike. Like a rag. Thank you. I didn't notice that before :)
Harold wotsisname must have read my mind before I was born because I also think maths and music are closely related! It's particularly obvious when playing the piano but how clever of him :) Shame he got obsessed by geometry - they do like naming things... *glower* ... a lot, then expecting you to remember more than, "oh look, it's got three sides, it must be a triangle"
AACCGHILLOPRRSTY
SchallgryApricot - angle formed when two chordal arcs fall off their circles and meet in a pointy shape.
Ccalligrroaphyst - one obsessed with perfect symmetry whilst drawing large polytopes
PyrocllasticArgh - expression of anger after accidentally setting your thesis alight
SplotchyCaralirg - abstract four dimensional orthoplexital icosahedrononym
Stylogrraphiccal - meticulously drawn geometrical shape, with lots of lines and markings and stuff, that proves, without a shadow of doubt, that: the interior angle of a pair of disecting parallel lines through the vertices of an apeirotopic splodge is equal to the external opposite angle of a sheeps hindleg
GothicallyScrarp - to screw up and throw away a disastrously drawn polytope. Except that's a verb. Oh.
Actually...
You may find I was a little... creative with your criteria Mike and that none of them are adjectives... you may also find... that I don't care...
:)
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* if he was alive, which he isn't.
...which I suspect he's now grateful for.
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Oh... you made it all red for us, Mike. Like a rag. Thank you. I didn't notice that before :)
Should have done it as a Rorschach blot. :-)
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Harold wotsisname must have read my mind before I was born because I also think maths and music are closely related! It's particularly obvious when playing the piano but how clever of him :) Shame he got obsessed by geometry - they do like naming things... *glower* ... a lot, then expecting you to remember more than, "oh look, it's got three sides, it must be a triangle"
His everyday name was Donald or Don. He is remembered for 'saving geometry from the algebraists' to wit : there was a group of French mathematicians ( variable members over the years ) who wrote under the pseudonym of Nicolas Bourbaki. They wanted to make all mathematics expressible in algebraic format ie. symbols and equations for everything as the primary mode of discourse. That tended to make the area look pretty gobledygookish and unnecessarily so. Set the state of the art so far back in time : before the Big Bang indeed. Only a serious group of mathematicians can do that ... in any case Don bowling balled the lot of them and banished them to a limiting tangent where they were smote with .... err .... probably alot of those polytopes you are about to mention below. Some splines were used as well. Cheers to Don ! :-)
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SchallgryApricot - angle formed when two chordal arcs fall off their circles and meet in a pointy shape.
I like apricots. Nice geometric insert there.
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Ccalligrroaphyst - one obsessed with perfect symmetry whilst drawing large polytopes
I can never get my polytopes to sit still without whacking them with The Large Screwdriver.
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PyrocllasticArgh - expression of anger after accidentally setting your thesis alight
A hot topic indeed.
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SplotchyCaralirg - abstract four dimensional orthoplexital icosahedrononym
Yep, what Annnie said. I must say you a slotting right into the lingo here, so if you are true to form you may simply trip over the correct answer. Again.
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Stylogrraphiccal - meticulously drawn geometrical shape, with lots of lines and markings and stuff, that proves, without a shadow of doubt, that: the interior angle of a pair of disecting parallel lines through the vertices of an apeirotopic splodge is equal to the external opposite angle of a sheeps hindleg
I'm totally lost there, but +1 for mentioning a sheep*.
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GothicallyScrarp - to screw up and throw away a disastrously drawn polytope. Except that's a verb. Oh.
By all means do not be swayed by mere convention ie. word usage as practised by the remainder of like speaking Homo SappyPines.
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* if he was alive, which he isn't.
...which I suspect he's now grateful for.
He lived well into that decade just prior to having three decimal digits to nominate the number of circuits of the Sun** , that one has done. Ish.
Cheers, Mike.
* and another +2 again for the conversion to plural form. Always a goer that tactic. Add in another +5 for missing any double thyroids along the path of the ..... err .... transect is such an ugly word .... :-))
** that's ninety six for you numericalogically incompetement out there. If you rotationiate the number around, transverse to the swirly-whirly axis like, you get 96 again. I think Don would have liked that ... maybe his last thought was ... cripes what a good thingy I am dying on a number with that pleasing symmetry ... ? :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Actually I am a bit peed off with Mensa. I took one of their home supervised tests many years ago, and not mentored by a friend or family, so all above board. Sent it up for adjudication and got a score of 148. But their entry level at the time was 150. So I got invited to one of their official tests in London, but never went. Now the buggers let you in with 148!! However it still has to be by their official test.
IQ can be seen as a measure of deductive and reasoning powers more than general intelligence. Winners of Mastermind etc don't have high IQ's just good memories and overall knowledge. Mind you even Einstein would struggle here!
Oooops this is Einstein chris, you nincompoop :-))
Now then this Harold geezer who died in 2003 aged 96, was famous for his work on regular polytopes, whatever the heck they are? But maths and music, yes there is a logic behind the layout of piano keyboards and the staves of written music. This was a feature of the final scenes in Close encounters of the wotsit kind.
Tesseracts are clever though :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
SACROCILLTGRAPHY - describes imaging of the inner structures of the cells in lower back muscles; at some point in the past, the person transcribing a doctor's notes thought the second I was a T and put it in a printed journal that way, and the misspelling has stuck
SCILLCARTOGRAPHY - (British spelling) advanced ability in mapmaking
LLYSCARTOGRAPHIC - the type of skill needed to make maps of Wales
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I suppose *sweep lashes with dustpan and brush* when you said this:
Quote:
conversion to plural form
...you were obliquelating to this...?
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a sheeps hindleg
In view of any extraneous apostrophes I may have left around the internet, Miiike, I thought I'd leave that one out. That way, Davvidd can't point at me and say anything other than that my apostrophophofising - when inclusively and extrapolatedingly extended beyond what is immediately in front of his nose at any given point in time and space - is anything but greater than any equal anywhere and not less than the perfect that it is in fact is.
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Actually I am a bit peed off with Mensa.
Are you, Chriiiis? Perhaps you should write to your MP... Or take the test again!
*read remainder of post and try really really really hard not to say what just popped into head*
If it doesn't measure general intelligence... *try really really really hard again...*
...it should *try really really really hard not to* be a doddle... :))) I'm really really really really really sorry... it just... came out... it's not true it's just the words sort of... invited me :)
As for einstein struggling here, I know for a fact he would never have got any of these... and probably not Daaaaavids map ones either.
coastalcryplighr – (pronounced coastal cripplerrrrrr) word coined during the algebraic wars (seen from the perspective of geometers) or the geometric wars (as seen from the perspective of algebraicists) describing the battle of the Misplaced Linear Equation (misplaced during an effort to define the wet edges of Scotland in purely mathematical form). Collateral damage was high, as were some falls off the dry bits, particularly in the vicinity of pubs, where the victims believed they were dealing with a very well placed quadratic equation and found there was no more ground to walk on.
Graphiccostallry – the decorative addition of splines (resembling, ribs, sort of) to a bog standard geometric shape, in order to terrorise society into submission.
Tallsharpyiccgor – slovenly rhombohedronagon-hemi-disphenidroideeoids (sometimes called a squashed rhombus when laying on its side)
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I scored b/w Charlize Theron and Stephen Hawking :-))
In any event it is a linear metric of one's ability to replicate the thinking memes of the test writers. I was marked down for (i) arguing (ii) pointing out that certain geometric patterns were similiar because they were both projections of the same set of 3D objects onto different 2D planes. They were quite unaware of that valid interpretation and this substantiates one of the dominant criticisms of the test : it is culturally and developmentally sensitive. If I'd been asked to listen to a piece of music and then name the main harmonic themes I would have crashed and burned. Or if I'd been asked what flower & in what season is safe to eat North of Alice Springs, then I'd be the dead white guy everyone else would be stepping over while they go walkabout. Or, like a dairy farmer I knew, if I'd been asked to smell a cow and say what illness they were afflicted with then my farm would be littered with dead stock ( and no milk forthcoming ). Or I could be the apparently half-smart guy at the banking house who helps 'smart people' to hand over their money to him, because he made them feel smarter than they were { so he leverages their own intelligence against themselves & that is really cool trick }. By linearising one throws away a massive slab of mental ability un-assessed, and in my view especially the bits about managing one's abilities in a social milieu.
In my view Mensa have missed several key rules of being really clever :
#1 You have to be smart enough to know when to look dumb : I call this the 'Duck Now, Think Later Paradigm'.
#2 You actually have to ask someone else when you don't know something ie. the 'Context is King in the Presence of 6000 Volts Scenario'.
#3 You should check your answers against reality ie. the 'Get Out of Your Own Head Once in a While Technique'.
.... plus say, others like 'the guy with the gun is always right' ( if you want to propagate those clever genes ). There are many more. In my long experience of treating those with self inflicted high grade trauma Clever People rank #2 to the 14 year old males ( whom I don't think will ever be usurped from #1 ). :-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) The Clever People had a model of a physical world not about the physical world. Fourteen year old males have no world model at all.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: parallelogram
)
Glad to be of service. Do you suppose you might return the favor by actually posting said new word before you go gallivanting acutely off to the beach?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
OK you asked for it
)
OK you asked for it :
AACCGHILLOPRRSTY
which as usual lies within the maths/science area of knowledge. Two hints to kick off :
(a) it is an adjective.
(b) a chap called Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter would be delighted* with my choice of word.
{ the beach has WiFi and in any event it'll be week or so before I get there. I have to swim up the East coast of DownUnda. }
Cheers, Mike.
* if he was alive, which he isn't.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: OK you asked for it
)
Oh did I? Did I really!!
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Oh... you made it all red for
)
Oh... you made it all red for us, Mike. Like a rag. Thank you. I didn't notice that before :)
Harold wotsisname must have read my mind before I was born because I also think maths and music are closely related! It's particularly obvious when playing the piano but how clever of him :) Shame he got obsessed by geometry - they do like naming things... *glower* ... a lot, then expecting you to remember more than, "oh look, it's got three sides, it must be a triangle"
AACCGHILLOPRRSTY
SchallgryApricot - angle formed when two chordal arcs fall off their circles and meet in a pointy shape.
Ccalligrroaphyst - one obsessed with perfect symmetry whilst drawing large polytopes
PyrocllasticArgh - expression of anger after accidentally setting your thesis alight
SplotchyCaralirg - abstract four dimensional orthoplexital icosahedrononym
Stylogrraphiccal - meticulously drawn geometrical shape, with lots of lines and markings and stuff, that proves, without a shadow of doubt, that: the interior angle of a pair of disecting parallel lines through the vertices of an apeirotopic splodge is equal to the external opposite angle of a sheeps hindleg
GothicallyScrarp - to screw up and throw away a disastrously drawn polytope. Except that's a verb. Oh.
Actually...
You may find I was a little... creative with your criteria Mike and that none of them are adjectives... you may also find... that I don't care...
:)
edit:
...which I suspect he's now grateful for.
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
RE: Oh... you made it all
)
Should have done it as a Rorschach blot. :-)
His everyday name was Donald or Don. He is remembered for 'saving geometry from the algebraists' to wit : there was a group of French mathematicians ( variable members over the years ) who wrote under the pseudonym of Nicolas Bourbaki. They wanted to make all mathematics expressible in algebraic format ie. symbols and equations for everything as the primary mode of discourse. That tended to make the area look pretty gobledygookish and unnecessarily so. Set the state of the art so far back in time : before the Big Bang indeed. Only a serious group of mathematicians can do that ... in any case Don bowling balled the lot of them and banished them to a limiting tangent where they were smote with .... err .... probably alot of those polytopes you are about to mention below. Some splines were used as well. Cheers to Don ! :-)
I like apricots. Nice geometric insert there.
I can never get my polytopes to sit still without whacking them with The Large Screwdriver.
A hot topic indeed.
Yep, what Annnie said. I must say you a slotting right into the lingo here, so if you are true to form you may simply trip over the correct answer. Again.
I'm totally lost there, but +1 for mentioning a sheep*.
By all means do not be swayed by mere convention ie. word usage as practised by the remainder of like speaking Homo SappyPines.
He lived well into that decade just prior to having three decimal digits to nominate the number of circuits of the Sun** , that one has done. Ish.
Cheers, Mike.
* and another +2 again for the conversion to plural form. Always a goer that tactic. Add in another +5 for missing any double thyroids along the path of the ..... err .... transect is such an ugly word .... :-))
** that's ninety six for you numericalogically incompetement out there. If you rotationiate the number around, transverse to the swirly-whirly axis like, you get 96 again. I think Don would have liked that ... maybe his last thought was ... cripes what a good thingy I am dying on a number with that pleasing symmetry ... ? :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Actually I am a bit peed off
)
Actually I am a bit peed off with Mensa. I took one of their home supervised tests many years ago, and not mentored by a friend or family, so all above board. Sent it up for adjudication and got a score of 148. But their entry level at the time was 150. So I got invited to one of their official tests in London, but never went. Now the buggers let you in with 148!! However it still has to be by their official test.
IQ can be seen as a measure of deductive and reasoning powers more than general intelligence. Winners of Mastermind etc don't have high IQ's just good memories and overall knowledge. Mind you even Einstein would struggle here!
Oooops this is Einstein chris, you nincompoop :-))
Now then this Harold geezer who died in 2003 aged 96, was famous for his work on regular polytopes, whatever the heck they are? But maths and music, yes there is a logic behind the layout of piano keyboards and the staves of written music. This was a feature of the final scenes in Close encounters of the wotsit kind.
Tesseracts are clever though :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
SACROCILLTGRAPHY - describes
)
SACROCILLTGRAPHY - describes imaging of the inner structures of the cells in lower back muscles; at some point in the past, the person transcribing a doctor's notes thought the second I was a T and put it in a printed journal that way, and the misspelling has stuck
SCILLCARTOGRAPHY - (British spelling) advanced ability in mapmaking
LLYSCARTOGRAPHIC - the type of skill needed to make maps of Wales
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I suppose *sweep lashes with
)
I suppose *sweep lashes with dustpan and brush* when you said this:
...you were obliquelating to this...?
In view of any extraneous apostrophes I may have left around the internet, Miiike, I thought I'd leave that one out. That way, Davvidd can't point at me and say anything other than that my apostrophophofising - when inclusively and extrapolatedingly extended beyond what is immediately in front of his nose at any given point in time and space - is anything but greater than any equal anywhere and not less than the perfect that it is in fact is.
Are you, Chriiiis? Perhaps you should write to your MP... Or take the test again!
*read remainder of post and try really really really hard not to say what just popped into head*
If it doesn't measure general intelligence... *try really really really hard again...*
...it should *try really really really hard not to* be a doddle... :)))
I'm really really really really really sorry... it just... came out... it's not true it's just the words sort of... invited me :)
As for einstein struggling here, I know for a fact he would never have got any of these... and probably not Daaaaavids map ones either.
coastalcryplighr – (pronounced coastal cripplerrrrrr) word coined during the algebraic wars (seen from the perspective of geometers) or the geometric wars (as seen from the perspective of algebraicists) describing the battle of the Misplaced Linear Equation (misplaced during an effort to define the wet edges of Scotland in purely mathematical form). Collateral damage was high, as were some falls off the dry bits, particularly in the vicinity of pubs, where the victims believed they were dealing with a very well placed quadratic equation and found there was no more ground to walk on.
Graphiccostallry – the decorative addition of splines (resembling, ribs, sort of) to a bog standard geometric shape, in order to terrorise society into submission.
Tallsharpyiccgor – slovenly rhombohedronagon-hemi-disphenidroideeoids (sometimes called a squashed rhombus when laying on its side)
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RE: Actually I am a bit
)
Yes Annniiiee I am! Unfortunately my new MP is of the opposite persuasion these days so I won't bother. But yes, another test I might just consider.
Tall sharpy icc gor a clever gorilla that is of good height and likes ice in his cocktails.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I scored b/w Charlize Theron
)
I scored b/w Charlize Theron and Stephen Hawking :-))
In any event it is a linear metric of one's ability to replicate the thinking memes of the test writers. I was marked down for (i) arguing (ii) pointing out that certain geometric patterns were similiar because they were both projections of the same set of 3D objects onto different 2D planes. They were quite unaware of that valid interpretation and this substantiates one of the dominant criticisms of the test : it is culturally and developmentally sensitive. If I'd been asked to listen to a piece of music and then name the main harmonic themes I would have crashed and burned. Or if I'd been asked what flower & in what season is safe to eat North of Alice Springs, then I'd be the dead white guy everyone else would be stepping over while they go walkabout. Or, like a dairy farmer I knew, if I'd been asked to smell a cow and say what illness they were afflicted with then my farm would be littered with dead stock ( and no milk forthcoming ). Or I could be the apparently half-smart guy at the banking house who helps 'smart people' to hand over their money to him, because he made them feel smarter than they were { so he leverages their own intelligence against themselves & that is really cool trick }. By linearising one throws away a massive slab of mental ability un-assessed, and in my view especially the bits about managing one's abilities in a social milieu.
In my view Mensa have missed several key rules of being really clever :
#1 You have to be smart enough to know when to look dumb : I call this the 'Duck Now, Think Later Paradigm'.
#2 You actually have to ask someone else when you don't know something ie. the 'Context is King in the Presence of 6000 Volts Scenario'.
#3 You should check your answers against reality ie. the 'Get Out of Your Own Head Once in a While Technique'.
.... plus say, others like 'the guy with the gun is always right' ( if you want to propagate those clever genes ). There are many more. In my long experience of treating those with self inflicted high grade trauma Clever People rank #2 to the 14 year old males ( whom I don't think will ever be usurped from #1 ). :-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) The Clever People had a model of a physical world not about the physical world. Fourteen year old males have no world model at all.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal