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zakharov posted:
me too, I always thought 1 was a prime
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 01:31 |
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Same. I guess since 1 is itself it doesn't count?
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 01:33 |
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By definition a prime number is greater than 1.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 01:44 |
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Ha, ha, you smug fucker!
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 01:47 |
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zakharov posted:By definition a prime number is greater than 1. A prime number has to have exactly two positive factors, 1 and itself. 1 only has one factor, so it's not prime. So many people bitching that the answer was wrong and that 11 should've been correct. They need to review number theory...
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 02:20 |
I said 11
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 03:25 |
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Were all of our math teachers awful? Because I always assumed 1 was a prime number too.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 04:30 |
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I got 23.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 06:18 |
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E: N/M I can't read this early in the morning.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 13:17 |
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lollin at all the 11ers in this thread.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 21:26 |
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I somehow made the opposite mistake, forgot 2 counted and thought it was 37.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 22:42 |
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I had 13, but I was apparently concussed at the time.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 00:49 |
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I guessed 17 so that makes me a special kind of stupid
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 01:30 |
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GhostStalker posted:So many people bitching that the answer was wrong and that 11 should've been correct. They need to review number theory...
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 01:41 |
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Andrea was the most exciting person in the history of Jeopardy.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 01:46 |
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Soothing Vapors posted:I was less bitching and more lamenting my stupidity Not here, but the Jeopardy Facebook page was full of people complaining that the show had gotten it wrong.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 02:32 |
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Tonight's FJ would have killed me.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 02:38 |
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FrumpleOrz posted:Andrea was the most exciting person in the history of Jeopardy. Looking at her impressive forehead made me think of this: MY SKULL!
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 02:39 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:Tonight's FJ would have killed me. Yes, get all the garbage classical music questions gone by Tuesday please.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 03:45 |
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My Advanced Calc professor got the Final Jeopardy question right after a couple of seconds when I asked him for his opinion before class this evening, and when I told him that someone said 11, costing him the game, he told me that up until a couple of centuries ago, many mathematicians had considered 1 prime, but now they don't because some theorems in number theory don't work if it is. Glad I went through his number theory class a couple years before.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 04:09 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:Tonight's FJ would have killed me. I actually got it pretty quickly. How the hell am I more up on my baroque composers than basic mathematics!?
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 06:28 |
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Why are Final Jeopardies of such varying difficulty. You go from a 200 dollar worthy prime numbers clue to that composers one.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 11:35 |
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FrumpleOrz posted:Andrea was the most exciting person in the history of Jeopardy. She was doing so poorly until the very last couple of minutes, too. So long, Kristin.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 13:08 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:Why are Final Jeopardies of such varying difficulty. You go from a 200 dollar worthy prime numbers clue to that composers one. You may not believe this, but different people have different areas of interest
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 13:17 |
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What was the composer one?
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 13:39 |
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Anne Whateley posted:What was the composer one?
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 13:47 |
I guessed "either Wagner and Back or Wagner and Handel"
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 15:02 |
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Yeah that's pretty straightforward. There are probably only 10 composers (maximum) ever mentioned on Jeopardy; you just have to know what or when Baroque is.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 15:09 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:Looking at her impressive forehead made me think of this: She reminded me more of this.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 15:27 |
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mennoknight posted:You may not believe this, but different people have different areas of interest Prime numbers are a fairly basic grade school math concept (hell I probably haven't thought of them in two decades). Far more people have been exposed to them than information needed to get last night's Final Jeopardy.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 16:04 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:Prime numbers are a fairly basic grade school math concept (hell I probably haven't thought of them in two decades). Far more people have been exposed to them than information needed to get last night's Final Jeopardy. I've been studying non-stop for the show for three weeks and I have studied prime numbers exactly no times. I have studied composers probably a hundred. That information about prime numbers is long gone from my head. Grade school is a long time removed and I haven't worked with numbers in 20 years.
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 16:49 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:(hell I probably haven't thought of them in two decades) I was talking in the general sense anyway (which I thought was obvious) - I never even considered studying if I got on the show. Prime numbers are something everyone learns (whether they remember or not is moot to my point though I would assume Jeopardy contestants or fans would have better recall than the norm), for the Composers you have to know Baroque composers, which ones are German, and which were born around the same time frame. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Mar 19, 2015 |
# ? Mar 19, 2015 17:10 |
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That question could've been "the two best-known Baroque composers (who aren't named Vivaldi, duh)." Jeopardy is never going to ask you to come up with Telemann or Schutz. For what it's worth, like someone said above, my grade-school textbook's definition of prime numbers didn't include "greater than 1."
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# ? Mar 19, 2015 17:39 |
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Lmao tonight's was ridiculous, I had no chance.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 00:51 |
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Me either, the ncaa dicked me out of it today
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 02:32 |
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I don't like the new champ, but at least Mrs. Skeletor is gone.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 02:40 |
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zakharov posted:Lmao tonight's was ridiculous, I had no chance. I got it but I dunno how.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 03:25 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I got it but I dunno how.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 03:31 |
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Pretty sure if you filtered the entire state of Oregon into a single person, you'd get Gina.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 04:33 |
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# ? May 22, 2024 12:00 |
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The new Jeopardy champion is kind of a hottie.
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# ? Mar 20, 2015 13:37 |