pi = very good
Richard
most recent example is:
Duck was very good at initially espying the drug (6)
The answer is "opiate" where o = duck, pi = very good, at = at, e =
initially espying.
I have inferred the pi = very good.
Can anybody explain where this meaning for pi comes from?
--
Richard Bollard
Australian Mathematics Trust
Canberra, Australia
ntaylor
richardbD...@amt.canberra.edu.au (Richard) wrote:
>I have come across this equation in solving cryptic crosswords. The
>most recent example is:
>
>Duck was very good at initially espying the drug (6)
>
>The answer is "opiate" where o = duck, pi = very good, at = at, e =
>initially espying.
>
>I have inferred the pi = very good.
>
>Can anybody explain where this meaning for pi comes from?
>Canberra, Australia
Pious, piety come to mind.
Carmen L. Abruzzi
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In article <3b16ef53...@news.cis.dfn.de>, tay...@htan.org
(ntaylor) wrote:
I don't get how o=duck.
Brian J Goggin
Sright. From Chambers:
===begins=====
pi (colloq) adj obtrusively religious, sanctimonious. --- a pious or
sanctimonious person or talk. pi-jaw sermonizing; an admonition.
[Short form of pious]
===ends=====
I associate it with old-fashioned British school stories: "Oh, don't
be so beastly pi, Carruthers. You know jolly well that Matron has a
secret vice."
bjg
Lars Eighner
the lovely and talented Carmen L Abruzzi
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
CLA> I don't get how o=duck.
Because you aren't English and a tennis player.
Duck = a pet name equivalent to and interchangeable with "Love."
Love = a score of zero in tennis
0 = o
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Mike Lyle
Cricket: nought is shape of duck's egg.
Mike.
Mike Barnes
>I don't get how o=duck.
Cricket. Batsman out without scoring = "a duck".
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Stephen Toogood
<b...@wordwrights.ie> writes
>
>I associate it with old-fashioned British school stories: "Oh, don't
>be so beastly pi, Carruthers. You know jolly well that Matron has a
>secret vice."
>
caught her in the metalwork shop.
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John Dean
Lars Eighner <eig...@io.com> wrote in message
news:86u22090d...@dumpster.io.com...
> In our last episode, <9f6r7v$s8n$1...@woodrow.ucdavis.edu>,
> the lovely and talented Carmen L Abruzzi
> broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>
> CLA> I don't get how o=duck.
>
>
> Because you aren't English and a tennis player.
>
> Duck = a pet name equivalent to and interchangeable with "Love."
> Love = a score of zero in tennis
> 0 = o
Cor, Love a Duck Lars! You won't hear them saying 'Duck' at Wimbledon, even
when the balls whizz past their ear-'oles. Love prevails at the All-England
Club. Duck is the term for a score of zero by a batsman at cricket. ''Broke
his duck'' means a batsman finally got off the mark by scoring a run. By
analogy, you can also be said to 'break your duck' when you lose your
virginity. As we say round here, All roight moi duck?
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Mike Lyle
Mike.
Chris
Australians do know :) - they inflict it on others quite often...
It's a cricket-term: to score a duck = to be out for naught, being dismissed
without having scored any runs/points.
Chris
John Dean
Mike Lyle <nos...@newsranger.com> wrote in message
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> >--
> You're a rotter, Toogers! Scrag him, chaps!
Cave, Cave! Here comes the beak! You blithering idiot Bunter!
Stephen Toogood
<nos...@newsranger.com> writes
(Cripes! I'm for it after prep tonight!)
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Mike Lyle
Dean wrote:
>
>
>Mike Lyle <nos...@newsranger.com> wrote in message
>news:toLR6.322$v4....@www.newsranger.com...
>> >--
>> You're a rotter, Toogers! Scrag him, chaps!
>
>Cave, Cave! Here comes the beak! You blithering idiot Bunter!
>--
Mike.
>
ntaylor
wrote:
>
>>, you can also be said to 'break your duck' when you lose your
>virginity.
It's a mistake, I'm a drake!
Martin Ambuhl
>
> I have come across this equation in solving cryptic crosswords. The
> most recent example is:
>
> Duck was very good at initially espying the drug (6)
>
> The answer is "opiate" where o = duck, pi = very good, at = at, e =
> initially espying.
>
> I have inferred the pi = very good.
>
> Can anybody explain where this meaning for pi comes from?
19C British school slang for "pious", often sneeringly said.
Brian J Goggin
wrote:
The yaroofulness of the Bunter is terific.
bjg
Steve Hayes
>In our last episode, <9f6r7v$s8n$1...@woodrow.ucdavis.edu>,
>the lovely and talented Carmen L Abruzzi
>broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>
>CLA> I don't get how o=duck.
>
>
>Because you aren't English and a tennis player.
>
>Duck = a pet name equivalent to and interchangeable with "Love."
>Love = a score of zero in tennis
>0 = o
More commonly used in cricket.
Steve Hayes
http://www.suite101.com/myhome.cfm/methodius
Bun Mui
Comments?
Bun Mui
Ralph Jones
>
> I thought pi = 3.14 ???
>
> Comments?
>
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Steve Hayes
>>Cave, Cave! Here comes the beak! You blithering idiot Bunter!
>>--
>Yaroo!
Will someone please remove that fat owl.
Steve Hayes
http://www.suite101.com/myhome.cfm/methodius
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
>
> In article <83ZR6.7743$gg2....@news1.mts.net>,
> Bun Mui <BunM...@hotmail.com> posted:
> > I thought pi = 3.14 ???
> > Comments? Bun Mui
>
I'm a 355/113 kinda guy myself.
Dennis
Steve Hayes
>I thought pi = 3.14 ???
>
>
>Comments?
Approximately.
Steve Hayes
http://www.suite101.com/myhome.cfm/methodius
Jitze Couperus
>I thought pi = 3.14 ???
>
>
>Comments?
>
When God created the world, he screwed up on two things
which he failed to notice in the beta release, and thus
failed to correct in the released version.
First he made the pit of the avocado too large, rendering
its food/garbage ratio less than optimal.
Second was the value of Pi - he meant for it to be the
square root of 10 (which would have been so much more
handy in mathematical computations) but he was off
by an RCH.(1)
(1) An engineering term of art - a tad larger than
a standard CH, but a skosh less than a smidgeon.
Jitze
Spehro Pefhany
> (1) An engineering term of art - a tad larger than
> a standard CH, but a skosh less than a smidgeon.
No. A RCH is a smaller unit of measurement than standard CH, which is
finer again than the ACH. One data point for the RCH is 0.0025", courtesy
of one Mr. Mike Graham and his digital micrometer. I know not whether
some standards body in Paris has a platinum alloy original standard, but
at least this is real data. Perhaps Rey has more information.
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Peter Moylan
>I thought pi = 3.14 ???
You blithering idiot Bunter.
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Charles Riggs
Couperus) wrote:
>First he made the pit of the avocado too large, rendering
>its food/garbage ratio less than optimal.
>
>Second was the value of Pi - he meant for it to be the
>square root of 10 (which would have been so much more
>handy in mathematical computations) but he was off
>by an RCH.(1)
>
>(1) An engineering term of art - a tad larger than
>a standard CH, but a skosh less than a smidgeon.
I'd say that an RCH is a tad *smaller* than a standard CH if, by
standard, you mean a B(black)CH and not a B(Blonde)CH.
Charles Riggs
R H Draney
news:3B18F5...@maltedmedia.com...
If you need it in a program, 4*arctan(1) gives it to the precision of the
local floating-point routines....r
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
I occasionally still do scratch figuring, and that 355/113 comes in a
lot handier tan 4*arcthan(1)3
Dennis
R H Draney
> R H Draney wrote:
> >
> > If you need it in a program, 4*arctan(1) gives it to the precision of
the
> > local floating-point routines....r
>
> I occasionally still do scratch figuring, and that 355/113 comes in a
> lot handier tan 4*arcthan(1)3
For scratching it will do, but you just missed the moon by over a hundred
yards....r
Donna Richoux
You missed the midpoint of the moon's face by a hundred yards, or any
point on the moon by a hundred yards?
--
Curious, but not enough to work it out myself -- Donna Richoux
R H Draney
>R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <bat...@maltedmedia.com> wrote in message
>> news:3B1AD9...@maltedmedia.com...
>> >
>> > lot handier tan 4*arcthan(1)3
>>
>> For scratching it will do, but you just missed the moon by over a hundred
>> yards....r
>
>You missed the midpoint of the moon's face by a hundred yards, or any
>point on the moon by a hundred yards?
Missed the spot you were shooting at...unless you were trying for the
trailing
limb, you still hit the moon....
(All this, of course, ignores the eccentricity of the orbit, and the fact
that
any practical trajectory is considerably longer than a mere circumferential
route...I can *do* the calculus if absolutely necessary, but given the
choice
I'd rather be working on my midi files)....r
--
http://home.earthlink.net/~dadoctah/SpektrymLyrics/AlreadySideTwo.mid for
the
latest one, if anyone gives a rap....
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R H Draney
Geoff Butler
>that
>any practical trajectory is considerably longer than a mere circumferential
>route...I can *do* the calculus if absolutely necessary, but given the
>choice
>I'd rather be working on my midi files)....r
Wow. You can solve a four-body problem using calculus? Or at all? Quick,
patent it.
-ler
R H Draney
To as many terms as practical...you might want to make sure your seatbelts
are
fastened, just in case....
And before somebody else points it out, the midi is at
http://home.earthlink.net/~dadoctah/music/AlreadySideTwo.mid , not where I
said before...that'll teach me to try and navigate the folder structure of
my
site from memory...(that's not even rocket science!)....r
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
More accurate tan my shlide rule...
M. Ranjit Mathews
> I thought pi = 3.14 ???
So it is.
> Comments?
3.14 is the circumference of a halo with a diameter of 1.