Miscellaneous |
"My life is like a lemon, yellow and bitter, as I weave my way through the fruit bowl of life " 'It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing' |
Beggar-My-Neighbour: From July 2007 to May 1 2012, I held the world record, with Nicolas Wu, for the longest ever discovered game of Beggar-My-Neighbour. Since then, Reed Nessler, Nicolas Wu, Philip Anderson and William Rucklidge have improved on the record.
I've compiled a list of known current and previous records here.
John Conway once described the search for an infinitely looping game of Beggar-My-Neighbour as an "Anti Hilbert Problem", one that absolutely should not drive the future of mathematics. As Michael Kleber, another previous record holder, has said, 'This is almost entirely uninteresting'.
I've compiled a list of known current and previous records here.
John Conway once described the search for an infinitely looping game of Beggar-My-Neighbour as an "Anti Hilbert Problem", one that absolutely should not drive the future of mathematics. As Michael Kleber, another previous record holder, has said, 'This is almost entirely uninteresting'.
Country bagging: I am currently losing in my attempts to visit more countries than Matt Mayer and Andy Taylor, despite claiming several dubious bags on the basis of traversing an airport, making a tour of Europe's absurd little principalities (yes, including France) and taking a 5 hour round taxi trip to visit Albania for little more than an hour.
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Does it count if I'm just changing planes at an airport?
For countries, provided you get off the plane, yes. For capitals, no.
But that's unfair and illogical! You haven't seen a country properly if you just see the airport.
Nobody claimed this game was fair or logical.
- Matt Mayer, at http://www.mattmayer.com/fun/countries
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Does it count if I'm just changing planes at an airport?
For countries, provided you get off the plane, yes. For capitals, no.
But that's unfair and illogical! You haven't seen a country properly if you just see the airport.
Nobody claimed this game was fair or logical.
- Matt Mayer, at http://www.mattmayer.com/fun/countries
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