xxaaaxx wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:04 pm
Also, three cheers for the wagers.
But Gilbert needed a couple hundred bucks and a sole solve. His zippo bet meant Lindsay had to overbet, and let him in the equation. In some ways, it would have been lousy if his gifted $1600 for the faux rebound wound up winning the game for him. I wish New York would review football replays this quickly.
I knew this game was over when I saw the clue. I didn't know how difficult it would play to the general public but knew the Physics teacher couldn't believe his eyes. Credit to Gilbert for the Bernoulli guess.
As Linear Gnome has stated, the unit of pressure equal to 1 mm of Mercury is a Torr and is my preferred unit. Pressure is the muddiest derived unit in Physics - we have SI units of pascals (same guy as the software clue) which are so small you have to use KPa and MPa to be useful - and they aren't. We can't let go of psi, and in. Hg, and microns (for vacuum measurement), then atmospheres and bars and kilobars and possibly troy-ounce per square furlong as far as I know. Not pretty.
Go, Emma, Go. I wonder if Francois will be a little more aggressive at DD hunting, just to spoil them if nothing else.
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