For Week 26 (of the countUP) the link below will give you a line up of dinosaurs by size. Not that they could ever have lined up in this way as they didn't all exist at the same time.
By the time the later dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the early ones were no more than ancient fossils.
In fact, the gap between the existence of Tyranosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus is greater than the gap between Tyranosaurus Rex and the iPhone.
Image by AndreasIken from Pixabay
For week 25 (of the countUP) here is a neat bit of horsey maths from one of my favourite YouTubers.
I can’t think of a reason why you would need to work out
which are the three fastest out of 25 horses, but maybe you can. And anyway,
let’s suppose that’s the case.
OK, you have your 25 horses and you take them to a racetrack.
Hey, that’s a MASSIVE lorry you have. Does it need a special licence to drive
it?
The racetrack owner says, ‘Please use my racetrack but only
5 horses at a time please. Oh and I need it back, so be as quick as you can.’
Right then! 25 horses to be raced 5 at a time. What’s the
smallest number of races it will take? Go!
Just a bit of fun for week 24. Click the link for a 10 minute peek into the world of Tommy Turvey and Pokerjoe.
The first draft of Horse of the Same Colour is getting close to complete and although neither Megan nor Amy gets up to any of the antics shown, some of the things that happen come close.
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images
Have you ever been in a group of people and discovered that someone else shares your birthday? Does that seem like an amazing coincidence?
Not so, it’s just chance.
In any group of 23 people, there is a 50-50 chance
that two of them will have the same birthday. Click the link below for an explanation of why.
https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/
Week 23 of the countUP
