Talk for 1 minite without using words with a letter 'A' in them.

[d***@neustar.biz]

Ok..try this.
You must talk (and make sense) for 1 minite. You CANNOT use any words
that contain a letter 'A' and you must talk normally (2 words a second).
You do not have any time to work out what words to use..you must do it
clearly and fluently and within the next 5 mins;)). its EASY when you
know how...any takers??.
Mike.

SPOILER SPACE...
[count to 100]
You can't go past One hundred because then you get
to one hundred *a*nd one, etc.

In fact, I was taught that the correct pronunciation of 101 is "one
hundred one." If you follow that rule, the first number with an "a" in
it is "one quadrillion" -- and if you can count to 999,999,999,999,999
in your lifetime, I want your doctor's name.
(I'm using American pronunciation, number-naming, and number-writing
conventions here. Usage of dam' furriners may vary.)
--Z
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."

thousAnd comes much sooner that quadrillion.

[Mark Brader]

Post by d***@neustar.biz
thousAnd comes much sooner that quadrillion.

And just think, it took him less than 3/5 of a quadrillion nanoseconds
to notice that.

[James Dow Allen]

Post by Mark Brader
And just think, it took him less than 3/5 of a quadrillion nanoseconds
to notice that.

:-)

A loosely-related question was addressed in this ng in 2010.
Subject: Univocalic Verse
Msg-Id: <i1bapa$g84$***@news.eternal-september.org>
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.puzzles/jLpXAkq4UsM
Write a poem which makes us of only one of the vowels.

Richard Heathfield composed one of the submissions, but
I will narcissistically excerpt only my own effort:

DISCIPLINING

Impish witch with whip sizzling, swindling high
Instills wish: bitch clinching with thrilling silk thigh.
Bikini crisp clinging,
Lipstick'd kiss gripping,
Sixth digit tingling,
Brisk witch is ... whipping?
Is whipping? Hi! Hi?
Dirk, first firm, is flinching,
Cringing, diminishing.
Illicit fling is inhibiting:
Bliss (I miss'd) fizzling.
Fitting finish, I sigh.

Jimmi

[Richard Heathfield]

Post by James Dow Allen

Post by Mark Brader
And just think, it took him less than 3/5 of a quadrillion nanoseconds
to notice that.

:-)
A loosely-related question was addressed in this ng in 2010.
Subject: Univocalic Verse
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.puzzles/jLpXAkq4UsM
Write a poem which makes us of only one of the vowels.
Richard Heathfield composed one of the submissions

I didn't remember doing so, so I followed the URI above, and was
delighted to find that my submission actually carried a sensible message
(and it even kinda rhymed and kinda scanned - ish).

Whether it met the criterion of monovowelularity depends on whether you
count 'y' as a vowel (and yes, that debate took up most of the thread!).

[James Dow Allen]

I only check this moribund group once every few months.
I admit to a narcissistic thrill that one of my own poetic
efforts has drifted back to the top, at least in the
Googles.Group rendition of the ng.

Post by James Dow Allen

Post by Mark Brader
And just think, it took him less than 3/5 of a quadrillion nanoseconds
to notice that.

:-)
A loosely-related question was addressed in this ng in 2010.
Subject: Univocalic Verse
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.puzzles/jLpXAkq4UsM
Write a poem which makes us of only one of the vowels.
Richard Heathfield composed one of the submissions, but
DISCIPLINING
Impish witch with whip sizzling, swindling high
Instills wish: bitch clinching with thrilling silk thigh.
Bikini crisp clinging,
Lipstick'd kiss gripping,
Sixth digit tingling,
Brisk witch is ... whipping?
Is whipping? Hi! Hi?
Dirk, first firm, is flinching,
Cringing, diminishing.
Bliss (I miss'd) fizzling.
Fitting finish, I sigh.
Jimmi

[Richard Heathfield]

Post by James Dow Allen
I only check this moribund group once every few months.
I admit to a narcissistic thrill that one of my own poetic
efforts has drifted back to the top, at least in the
Googles.Group rendition of the ng.

<snip>

Post by James Dow Allen

Post by James Dow Allen
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.puzzles/jLpXAkq4UsM
Write a poem which makes us of only one of the vowels.
Richard Heathfield composed one of the submissions,

Gosh! So O dod! O'd complotoly forgotton. Horo ot os:

Wool sock on cold foot,
On low, low floor of world,
Poor fool roots for food;
Stop! No pots for to cook,
Roots rot, boots shot;
No! No bloody good.

[I must put my foot down over 'Y', despite new-fangled attempts to
vowelify it. As the old schoolboy howler reminds us: "The cow has five
bowels, which are A, E, I, O, and U."]

[Richard Heathfield]

Post by James Dow Allen
I only check this moribund group once every few months.

Oh, and that's another thing!

You never told me you were the first to solve Connect Four!

You should have said.

Harumph.

[James Dow Allen]

Post by Richard Heathfield

Post by James Dow Allen
I only check this moribund group once every few months.

Oh, and that's another thing!
You never told me you were the first to solve Connect Four!
You should have said.

Hey Richard, I was first to solve Connect Four.

AFAIK I was also 1st to prove/present 6-moves-or-fewer
solver for (7,5) Mastermind. Play with me here:
http://www.fabpedigree.com/james/mmind/mmind.htm

The From: address is defunct. MY Gmail contact, and
offering best regards is

jamesdowallen

[Richard Heathfield]

Post by James Dow Allen

Post by Richard Heathfield

Post by James Dow Allen
I only check this moribund group once every few months.

Oh, and that's another thing!
You never told me you were the first to solve Connect Four!
You should have said.

Hey Richard, I was first to solve Connect Four.

Gosh! I had no idea. Thanks for telling me, James!

By the way, you might not know this, but I invented AVL trees.
(Unfortunately, A-V and L stole my idea and sent it a few decades back
through time so that they could claim priority.)

How are you getting on with Connect Five?

Post by James Dow Allen
AFAIK I was also 1st to prove/present 6-moves-or-fewer
http://www.fabpedigree.com/james/mmind/mmind.htm

Pretty good. It took me nine guesses, a reveal, and a tenth guess, but I
won! I won! (I lost.)

Post by James Dow Allen
The From: address is defunct. MY Gmail contact, and
offering best regards is
jamesdowallen

Saved for future reference. (You know mine already because it's in my
headers.)

ObPuzzle: Variant on Connect Four, which would be tricky to implement
IRL but not so hard in a computer, and easy to play on paper:

Allow the player to drop the counter in from any compass point (NSEW).
It travels as far as possible until encountering an obstacle or the last
cell in the row or column. Row and column count is agreed by both
players beforehand. (Invented by myself and Kevin R at school in 1980 or
so.)

Example game start with 5x6 board:

Player 1 (o) plays N4

|
V
+123456
1......
2......
3......
4......
5...o..

Player 2 (x) plays W3

+123456
1......
2......
--> 3.....x
4......
5...o..

Player 1 plays N6

|
V
+123456
1......
2.....o
3.....x
4......
5...o..

Player 2 plays W3

+123456
1......
2.....o
--> 3....xx
4......
5...o..

etc.

And many a happy maths lesson passed in thus wise, which is probably why
I can't do partial integration.

[riverman]

Ok..try this.
You must talk (and make sense) for 1 minite. You CANNOT use any words
that contain a letter 'A' and you must talk normally (2 words a second).
You do not have any time to work out what words to use..you must do it
clearly and fluently and within the next 5 mins;)). its EASY when you
know how...any takers??.
Mike.

I would count as high as I wanted to, but count in numbers, not words.

1000 doesn't have an 'a'. It has a 1 and three 0s.

:-)

[r***@hotmail.com]

Ok..try this.
You must talk (and make sense) for 1 minite. You CANNOT use any words
that contain a letter 'A' and you must talk normally (2 words a second).
You do not have any time to work out what words to use..you must do it
clearly and fluently and within the next 5 mins;)). its EASY when you
know how...any takers??.
Mike.

This is simple. Extremely simple. It's enough to just count from one to one hundred. Just two problems: one: how does one continue once one hundred is encountered - does one count down to one then? I'm sure I could count to one hundred in under sixty seconds. Two: who thinks counting up to one hundred is sensible? I sure don't. For the _correct_ solution, just utilise this post.

Roy

[c***@gmail.com]

Ok..try this.
You must talk (and make sense) for 1 minite. You CANNOT use any words
that contain a letter 'A' and you must talk normally (2 words a second).
You do not have any time to work out what words to use..you must do it
clearly and fluently and within the next 5 mins;)). its EASY when you
know how...any takers??.
Mike.

I call shenanigans. Nobody counts to 100 as part of a normal conversation. If that's allowed, why not just say "Red lorry, yellow lorry" or "The sixth shiek's sixth sheeps' sick" over and over until the minute is up? That's just as valid as your answer.

[Mark Brader]

Post by c***@gmail.com

Ok..try this.
You must talk (and make sense) for 1 minite. You CANNOT use any words
that contain a letter 'A' and you must talk normally (2 words a second).
You do not have any time to work out what words to use..you must do it
clearly and fluently and within the next 5 mins;)). its EASY when you
know how...any takers??.
Mike.

I call shenanigans.

You are calling it approximately 21 years late. Note the date you cited.

[r***@lahaina.k12.hi.us]

Why should I do this? It's not very intense, plus people will find out that you're trying something new. It'll feel weird for them too, you using words that you'd use often turn into synonyms of those certain words.

[Robert Taylor]

In fact, I was taught that the correct pronunciation of 101 is "one
hundred one." If you follow that rule, the first number with an "a" in
it is "one quadrillion" -- and if you can count to 999,999,999,999,999

False - All the numbers from "One thousand" to (one less than one million) will contain an A.

[HenHanna]

Post by Robert Taylor

In fact, I was taught that the correct pronunciation of 101 is "one
hundred one." If you follow that rule, the first number with an "a" in
it is "one quadrillion" -- and if you can count to 999,999,999,999,999

False - All the numbers from "One thousand" to (one less than one million) will contain an A.

One billion: This is the first number written in English that contains
the letter "B."

One octillion: This is the first number written in English that contains
the letter "C."

Zero: Interestingly, it's the first number containing the letter "E" and
"O."

Three: It's the first number with the letter "H."

Eleven: It's the first number with the letter "L."



Letters without representation: The letters J and K don't appear in any
cardinal numbers written in English.



Puzzles:

What is the smallest number that, when spelled out, uses all the letters
of the alphabet? (One-thousand two hundred thirty-four)

Can you find a number between 1 and 100 that uses all the vowels but no
consonants? (There isn't one!)

What is the smallest number that has five "I"s in its written form?
(Eleven hundred eleven)



Challenge: Can you come up with your own puzzle based on letters and
numbers?


Bonus:

Did you know that the word "palindrome" is itself a palindrome?

Can you think of any other words that are numbers spelled backward?
(Eleven, noon, racecar, level)




I apologize that my previous response contained inaccurate
information. You're absolutely right, and I appreciate you pointing it
out. I am still under development and learning to perform many tasks
accurately. Would you mind specifying which statements were incorrect,
so I can improve my knowledge and avoid similar mistakes in the future?
Additionally, if you have any further questions or puzzles for me, I'd
be happy to try my best to answer them correctly.