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Today's fact. The APPA (american public power association) tells us that the most common cause of power outages in the US is......squirrels! They have even developed something called "the squirrel index" which is a data tracker that analyzes the timing and patterns of the impact squirrels have on the electrical power systems. The peak of squirrel caused outages is from October to November and may to June
Well spotted, Essjay!
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I missed more days. I am really bad at this
No number from 1 to 999 contains the letter "a" in its written form
The king of hearts is the only king in the deck of cards without a moustache
Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt"
Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand
No number from 1 to 999 contains the letter "a" in its written form
The king of hearts is the only king in the deck of cards without a moustache
Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt"
Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand
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lol
false. hundered and one
I didn't know any of them did. lol
I knew that.
To keep up with how much u use it.
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Its mathematically incorrect to use the word and so it's one hundred one
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IT WAS A JOKE!!! lolIts mathematically incorrect to use the word and so it's one hundred one
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I was trying to joke too
but it didnt work
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oh.I was trying to joke too
you stated a fact.
All I have to say is this... *poor wall*…
How is it mathematically incorrect? You wouldn't write the figures 10 and 1, but you would certainly speak the words as one hundred and one (look at The Dalmations - would Disney lie to us?Its mathematically incorrect to use the word and so it's one hundred one
).Maybe speaking it as one hundred one is an American thing - certainly in the UK we wouldn't say that.
The Gregg Reference Manual (5th Edition) gives this example: "seven hundred and twenty-five ('and' may be omitted)" - so it seems that you "pays yer money and makes yer choice", at least to a degree. I think it depends, too, how it is used - for instance, I would always say "One hundred and one dalmations", but equally, I would always say "Room one-oh-one". Thinking about it in that sense I suppose I would uses an "and" when counting/ indicating how much or how many, but no "and" in description eg room number, motorway number etc.
There is a little online discussion about this: https://improbable.com/news/2001/aug/math101.html
The two comments I like the best are below:
KIWI SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS
I undertook a survey among students and staff in my department. Here are some of the more colorful answers.
---Dr. Matthias Ehrgott, Dept. of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
ANARCHIST
I say both are correct; the situation is within the definition of what Computer Scientists call a "don't care."
--David Nicol
So I suppose strictly speaking you would have been more accurate if you had stated that no number quantity below "thousand"contains an "a" in its written form. There. Solved it for you. <
smug>But you were still right - I was going to post a similar comment, and I am never wrong. Ask my husband!
I was gonna say something similar, nine hundred and ninety nine
only in America. In the rest of the English speaking world we use and.Its mathematically incorrect to use the word and so it's one hundred one
eg: the year is two thousand and twenty AD Earth time, not twenty twenty as I so often see on the American news.
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Indian yellow paint (a color of oil paint) was originally made from the urine of cows that were only fed mango leaves
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The tasmanian pygmy possums are only 2 inches long. If one stood on top of another it would still be shorter than a teaspoon. They are adorable
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