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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

No I'm not
Co. Down is the 2nd most densely populated person/km2 county like thee glitz said.

It is the 4th most populated county by total numbers.

1. Dublin - 1,345,402
2. Antrim - 618,108
3. Cork - 542,196
4. Down - 531,665

By density it is second. I wasn't sure if you meant by density or not. Density is a better measure when the fact refers to 'most densely populated'.

Peregrine

razorblunt wrote: »

Should that be 95?

Yes!

cdeb wrote: »

Could well be it alright, though your Irish syntax needs a bit of work I think.

Hey, the fadas are mostly correct! :P

razorblunt

Peregrine wrote: »

I think some people still use scór in Irish.

scór = twenty
dha scór = forty
thrí scór go leath (three score and half) = seventy
cúig déag agus ceithre scór = eighty-five

Should that be 95?

ScrubsfanChris

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

You are going by municipal areas, counting Finglas and South Dublin as counties.

No I'm not
Co. Down is the 2nd most densely populated person/km2 county like thee glitz said.

It is the 4th most populated county by total numbers.

1. Dublin - 1,345,402
2. Antrim - 618,108
3. Cork - 542,196
4. Down - 531,665

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Are you talking about "people per square km" when you say most densely populated?
Its 4th overall otherwise.

You are going by municipal areas, counting Finglas and South Dublin as counties.

sbsquarepants

pickarooney wrote: »

People from Denmark would be utterly hopeless at maths in that case.

I only know 1 Dane, and he's no Rachel Riley (unfortunately):D

cdeb

Could well be it alright, though your Irish syntax needs a bit of work I think.

Peregrine

cdeb wrote: »

We used to.

"Four score and seven years ago..."

I think the same was true in Irish; ochtó is a relatively new word

I think some people still use scór in Irish.

scór = twenty
dha scór = forty
thrí scór go leath (three score and half) = seventy
cúig déag agus ceithre scór = ninety-five

cdeb

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

could be worse. we could do it the same way as the french. 80 = quatre-vingts

We used to.

"Four score and seven years ago..."

I think the same was true in Irish; ochtó is a relatively new word

pickarooney

sbsquarepants wrote: »

The way we speak numbers as opposed to the way Asians do, is thought to be the main reason why Asians tend to be much better at mental arithmetic than westerners.
There are loads of irregular names and odd sounding names that need to first be translated into pure numbers before we can do the sum.

We have 1-10, then eleven, twelve, thirteen only then do the numbers sound like what they are 4-teen, 5-teen, so on. We have odd sounds for twenty, thirty + fifty but sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety sound like they number they represent.

Chinese for example say 1-10 then 11 is ten-one, 12 is ten-two and so on. 13 is ten-three, 54 is five-tens-four.

For us to to add 13+54 in our heads we need to first decode the words into numbers, then do the sum and finally check does that need to translated into an odd sounding word.

To add ten-three and five-tens-four it's a much simpler and faster mental process to end up with six-tens-seven

People from Denmark would be utterly hopeless at maths in that case.

ohnonotgmail

sbsquarepants wrote: »

The way we speak numbers as opposed to the way Asians do, is thought to be the main reason why Asians tend to be much better at mental arithmetic than westerners.
There are loads of irregular names and odd sounding names that need to first be translated into pure numbers before we can do the sum.

We have 1-10, then eleven, twelve, thirteen only then do the numbers sound like what they are 4-teen, 5-teen, so on. We have odd sounds for twenty, thirty + fifty but sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety sound like they number they represent.

Chinese for example say 1-10 then 11 is ten-one, 12 is ten-two and so on. 13 is ten-three, 54 is five-tens-four.

For us to to add 13+54 in our heads we need to first decode the words into numbers, then do the sum and finally check does that need to translated into an odd sounding word.

To add ten-three and five-tens-four it's a much simpler and faster mental process to end up with six-tens-seven

could be worse. we could do it the same way as the french. 80 = quatre-vingts

ScrubsfanChris

thee glitz wrote: »

Over 530,000 people live in Co.Down - it's the 2nd most densely populated in Ireland.

Are you talking about "people per square km" when you say most densely populated?
Its 4th overall otherwise.

sbsquarepants

The way we speak numbers as opposed to the way Asians do, is thought to be the main reason why Asians tend to be much better at mental arithmetic than westerners.
There are loads of irregular names and odd sounding names that need to first be translated into pure numbers before we can do the sum.

We have 1-10, then eleven, twelve, thirteen only then do the numbers sound like what they are 4-teen, 5-teen, so on. We have odd sounds for twenty, thirty + fifty but sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety sound like they number they represent.

Chinese for example say 1-10 then 11 is ten-one, 12 is ten-two and so on. 13 is ten-three, 54 is five-tens-four.

For us to to add 13+54 in our heads we need to first decode the words into numbers, then do the sum and finally check does that need to translated into an odd sounding word.

To add ten-three and five-tens-four it's a much simpler and faster mental process to end up with six-tens-seven

ohnonotgmail

Cianmcliam wrote: »

What about 50 to 100? Is one hundred and one not the first number with an 'a'?

If you count the a in and then one hundred and one is the first number to contain an a. If you ignore the ands then the first number is one thousand. the first number to contain the letter b is one billion.

razorblunt

What I need to know is ... is there a name for that excited shiver thing you do when you jump in bed after a long day and pull the duvet over yourself?

Cianmcliam

dinneenp wrote: »

the numbers 'one' all the way to 'fifty' don't contain the letter 'a'!

What about 50 to 100? Is one hundred and one not the first number with an 'a'?

dinneenp

the numbers 'one' all the way to 'fifty' don't contain the letter 'a'!

ryaner777

Probably already been said but

Leap years are every 4 years *

2096 will be a leap year but 2100 won't

Turn of the century years are only leap years if divisible by 400

Eg years 1600 & 2000 yes but not 1700,1800,1900,2100

thee glitz

Over 530,000 people live in Co.Down - it's the 2nd most densely populated in Ireland.

Four Phucs Ache

We know him as Sting thanks to the slagging he got by a group called the Phoenix jazzmen.He used to wear a black and yellow striped jumper when he played with them.

Capt'n Midnight

Omackeral wrote: »

Jim opens a cafe selling fish and chips. He has a sign made. It arrives and it says "fishandchips". So he rings up the sign company and says:

You need to put more space between "fish" and "and" and "and" and "chips"

IIRC you can get 18 and's with the spacing on the sign for Roland & Anderson.

Hagar7

Thargor wrote: »

Remember when ITV and the rest used to have those stupid ghost programmes like Most Haunted and a couple of others, a lot of them focused on orbs, as in they'd review the footage and suddenly see an "orb" floating across a room etc? Well if you shine an IR remote into a cctv camera and look at it on the monitor you'll see where those chancers were getting their floating orbs, its a really eerie effect.

Talking of which,Derek Acorah's mum always knitted his son's jumpers,he was a medium.

Peregrine

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I seen this somewhere before - tried it on 2 different androids and a windows phone, didn't work with any of them:mad:

Either the phone has a good infrared filter or the remote wasn't IR.

Cones it our eyes are sensituve up to around 700 nanometre wavelength light. Infrared remote controls emit at 850-1000nm. Silicone sensors in typical cameras are sensitive up to around 1100nm.

Cameras are usually equipped with an infrared filter to block out the IR wavelengths but they're not always 100% effective — especially if it's a cheap camera. That's why a lot of cameras can sense some of the infrared light from remotes.

If you've got a camera that you're not too fond of, it's not too difficult to remove the IR filter altogether and take images with visible light and infrared up to ~1100nm.

Thargor

Remember when ITV and the rest used to have those stupid ghost programmes like Most Haunted and a couple of others, a lot of them focused on orbs, as in they'd review the footage and suddenly see an "orb" floating across a room etc? Well if you shine an IR remote into a cctv camera and look at it on the monitor you'll see where those chancers were getting their floating orbs, its a really eerie effect.

sbsquarepants

valoren wrote: »

Our eyes have evolved to see the visible light range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Want to see Infrared which is invisible to our vision?

Get a TV remote control and a smart phone camera.
Point the bulb of the remote control at the camera and press any button.

You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

I seen this somewhere before - tried it on 2 different androids and a windows phone, didn't work with any of them:mad:

jimgoose

valoren wrote: »

...You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

Don't forget to make the "WHOMP-Bzzzz..." sound like when the Predator's mask changes frequency. :pac:

stimpson

valoren wrote: »

Our eyes have evolved to see the visible light range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Want to see Infrared which is invisible to our vision?

Get a TV remote control and a smart phone camera.
Point the bulb of the remote control at the camera and press any button.

You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

Only works on phones without an IR filter (ie. not iPhones)

valoren

Our eyes have evolved to see the visible light range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Want to see Infrared which is invisible to our vision?

Get a TV remote control and a smart phone camera.
Point the bulb of the remote control at the camera and press any button.

You can now 'see' the electromagnetic waves emitted at the invisible infrared frequency.

IvyTheTerrible

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

In Spanish, there is only one word for limes and lemons- limón. They don't see them as being different fruit at all.

And that is why the wonderful Linnaean binomial system was created - every species has a single Latin name , so everyone knows exactly what plant they are talking about without worrying about local variants. ðŸ˜Š

borderlinemeath

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Ye, it'd be RON

Incorrect if it's international soccer, which is pretty much the most likely international sport that they might meet in a match, friendly or otherwise. The FIFA code for Republic of Niger is NIG.