Rounders has much more in common with baseball then cricket does, but is still substantially different.
What really shocks some people is that one of Jane Austen’s heroines is fond of playing “base-ball” (probably something close to rounders) and the boy Laurie in “Little Women” is a passionate cricket player. The two nations seem to have drifted apart in the last 200 years, despite steamers and satellites (cue the Tornadoes singing “Telstar”).
I knew about both the Fibonacci sequence and transfinite numbers in elementary school. Granted, I was above average, but I was no prodigy.
Anyway, it is trivial to map the Fibonacci sequence into a single number. Just make an infinite list of Fibonacci numbers, and concatenate the digits into one infinite string, with a single “A” inserted between each pair numbers. Then treat that as a single hexadecimal number. (Or a mere base-11 will do, actually.) If you do this, and calculate π, as well, you will find that both strings have a length of א-null, so the lengths are equal. Easy-peasy.
Well, it is certainly true that it took me a lot of effort to learn to sing Johann Strauss’s pig-farmer song in German with a thick, “hayseed” Hungarian accent.
Actually, people at the time already believed the story about lemmings, and had for generations. The Disney people did force the lemmings that they were filming to go over a (fake) cliff, but they thought that something—they didn’t know what—was spooking the lemmings, stopping them from doing what they would normally do, and they obviously needed the shot.
But when the Pied Piper wanted dough for his jam / He was told by the Mayor to blow. / Said the Piper / “You’re a viper,” / But the Mayor / didn’t care. / “Better forget it, / You’ll never get it.”—Bunny Kerrigan
Spider, spider, on the wall / Ain’t you no sense at all? / Don’t you know that wall’s been plastered? / Get off that wall! you silly…spider.—Every 10-year-old boy I knew in the 50s
Rounders has much more in common with baseball then cricket does, but is still substantially different.
What really shocks some people is that one of Jane Austen’s heroines is fond of playing “base-ball” (probably something close to rounders) and the boy Laurie in “Little Women” is a passionate cricket player. The two nations seem to have drifted apart in the last 200 years, despite steamers and satellites (cue the Tornadoes singing “Telstar”).