Week 13 of the count up

13

13 is a prime number and has an underground connection to cicadas – check out week 17 for more.

 

Why is this a countUP and not acountDOWN?

Sorry and a bit of a repeat

Let's call this 12.5

Week 12.5 of the countUP went out with an error in it. Jack must have stamped his hoof in the wrong place. Very irritating for anyone who actually wanted to know what the sum back in week 2 actually was. This time the link works - I hope!

The answer is still ‘twelve plus one’.

 

Why is this a countUP and not acountDOWN?

Week 12 of the count up

12

Remember the sum back in week 2? The answer is ‘twelve plus one’.

 

Why is this a countUP and not acountDOWN?

SPECIAL AUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT

 Is that the unmistakeable thunder of galloping horses? Looks like it might be. 

I'm interrupting this blog count down (or rather count up) with the special announcement that Horse of a Different Colour is now available as an audiobook. 

CLICK HERE

Week 11 of the count up

11

Week 11 of the count up, and time to take stock. 

All the new cast is now embedded in the book, that includes Solo, Fmelodie, Tristan and Starlight Piglet, but Megan and Amy haven't properly met them all. At least not - as Amy would say - been introduced in a 'pleased to meet you' kind of way. In fact, Megan isn't quite sure she wants to meet Tristan properly. She has a feeling they've already met and that she didn't do well out of the encounter.

I’m not planning to get to week 1000, but I have a neat 1000 fact so I’ll put it here. It’s about the letter ‘a’. Although not as common as ‘e’, it is the second commonest vowel in the English language. Yet how many times would it appear if you were to write out the numbers from 0 to 1000?

Answer (surprisingly): just once. 

It is still a countUP but before too long it'll be a countDOWN,

Why is this a countUP and not acountDOWN.

Week 10 of the count up

10

We’re now in week 10 of the count up. Do you remember that back in week 6 I said that there was a connection to the number 10? It is that 10 factorial (usually written 10! And meaning 10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1) equals the exact number of seconds in 6 weeks.

 

Why is this a countUP and not acountDOWN.

Week 9 of the count up

 9

Nine is an interesting number to multiply. If you add together the digits of the answer, you always end up back with 9.

2 * 9 = 18

Add together 1 and 8 et voila! 9

Or really go mad and try something bigger:

56 * 9 = 504

5+0+4 = 9

And even where you don’t immediately get back to 9, then add together the numbers of the answer until you get back to a single digit and it will always be 9.

55 * 9 = 495

4+9+5 = 18

1+8 = 9.

 

For an explanation of why this is a countUP and not a countDOWN, CLICKHERE for the New Year post