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FatpeteIcon...22-07-2025 @ 08:01 
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Hyper obese Pete
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		A quick and simple four

xxxxx
xxYGx
xYxxG

Quite a pleasant change from the last few days
FatpeteIcon...22-07-2025 @ 08:09 
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		Today, it would seem is Pi approximation day.

Pi, I recall from my schooldays, when expressed as a fraction is 22/7, which is also today's date. Ho, ho, ho.


I wonder if schools still teach Pi as a fraction
Wayne_CowdreyIcon...22-07-2025 @ 10:07 
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RickIcon...22-07-2025 @ 10:46 
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Post Edited: 22.07.2025 @ 10:46 AM by Rick
Generally not, Pete; there's no point. It turns out that, when the teachers of the 1980s and 1990s said "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket, you know!", they were wrong.

A nice easy four today.
FatpeteIcon...23-07-2025 @ 07:09 
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		A straightforward four

YxxxY
xxxxx
xYxxY

Used slightly modified openers today but this didn't really test them
FatpeteIcon...23-07-2025 @ 07:15 
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Rick said:Generally not, Pete; there's no point. It turns out that, when the teachers of the 1980s and 1990s said "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket, you know!", they were wrong.


Interesting. They couldn't tell us that but my generation went through all our school years using logarithms and slide rules. Neither heard of nor saw a calculator until I was working at Gardner Engines, so circa 1977.

Interestingly, that first calculator was huge, very crude and cost the draughtsman who bought it around three weeks wages.
Wayne_CowdreyIcon...23-07-2025 @ 08:37 
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FatpeteIcon...23-07-2025 @ 19:19 
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		Wednesday, 23rd July, start 15:00

Bench
20 x 10
20 x 10
20 x 10
30 x 5
40 x 5
50 x 5
55 x 5
60 x 5
60 x 5
60 x 5
60 x 5
60 x 5

Busy day today, Wigan in the morning for an ECG and kudos to them for a very prompt and efficient service. My brother dropped me at 9.20 and picked me up again at 9:50. Thirty minutes for the whole thing. Impressive I call that. Damned impressive.
Wayne_CowdreyIcon...24-07-2025 @ 08:16 
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A pleasing 3.
FatpeteIcon...24-07-2025 @ 08:19 
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		A very slow four

YxxxG
xxYxx
xxxxx

Took a while
WiganIcon...25-07-2025 @ 08:27 
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Interesting, tactical, and a little sweaty

XXXXY
XGYXX
XGXGX
YGXXX
YXXXY
Wayne_CowdreyIcon...25-07-2025 @ 08:35 
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FatpeteIcon...25-07-2025 @ 08:42 
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		A slow and thoughtful fail

xxxxY
xGxxx
xYxxx
xGxGG
xGxGG
xGxGG

Obviously I tried to go tactical on the fifth try, but as only lesser used letters were left I simply couldn't think of one. Tried the more obvious of the solutions I could think of and failed. To be honest I don't think the answer ever entered my mind. No objections to it though.
FatpeteIcon...25-07-2025 @ 08:46 
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827.5 kgs @ 133kgs Eq		Annoyingly, had I not used my revised, supposedly improved openers, the old ones would have given me a very useful letter that the new ones didn't. Ah well, hindsight eh ?
matthewvcIcon...25-07-2025 @ 10:33 
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Fatpete said:Today, it would seem is Pi approximation day.

Pi, I recall from my schooldays, when expressed as a fraction is 22/7, which is also today's date. Ho, ho, ho.


I wonder if schools still teach Pi as a fraction


hopefully better accuracy than the Indiana Pi Bill of 1897 which had it defined as pi = 3.2. I wonder how many engineering projects there didn't work or broke as a result?

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