Reminds me of Patton Oswalts Physics for Poets...

Covid conspiracy theories, like their flat earth, fake moonlanding and crop circle cousins have long since and many times been disproved and debunked. I figured the Code Project crowd were a more intelligent bunch...

I see, I never noticed before, but then I do play every day so I probably wouldn't have experienced this yet.

This how I visualised it, draw your 4cm square, then draw another 4cm square directly over the top of the first but at 45 degrees rotation. From here you can see that the dimension you need is the diagonal of the 4cm square minus 4cm side all divided by 2, which is (sqrt(32)-4)/2 =. 828cm

If your win percentage is 100% then shouldn't your current and max streaks both be 51? (not implying anything, just curious!)

Comments are often restricted to what the code does, this is only half the story. It arguably more useful to know why its been written or why it's been written a particular way, this can't always be inferred from the code itself.

This made me think, what would a Dyson sphere look like in the flat earth model, then I remembered they don't have one...

Working in the engineering industry for 35 years I never trained formally in software or engineering but always had an interest in both even as a kid. 34 years ago I overheard my MD discussing not being able to get anyone to reprogram an inspection machine and I (stupidly?) volunteered to look at it. It was programmed by hand in binary codes which I had to decode by trial and error and a lot of intuition but got it going. I never looked back, since then my weekly routine regularly consists of 50% engineering, 50% software and 50% maths (See, I can do maths!) I consider myself as an engineer that can write software rather than a software engineer and, certainly for me, I couldn't do it without maths.

Those figures may be correct but you're missing one important point, those are the numbers WITH precautions (social distancing, isolation, face masks, vaccine) in place, you're quoting them as if that's all that would have happened if we'd done nothing. The whole point of the vaccine and other measures is to reduce the transmission rate in the overall population NOT to protect the individual.

A former colleague of mine was a smoker. He would buy a pack of cigarettes and very carefully transfer them to a tobacco tin and throw away the packet they came in. When I asked him why he did this he showed me the old packet which had a very graphic photo of someone's blackened, cigarette damaged lungs. He said "they keep putting these photos on the packet and it puts me right off smoking, so I throw away the packet". Some people you will never convince!!

If you know where he's buried you could still arrange for his legs to be broken...

A billion years? But the Windows progress bar says 99% complete...

FreeCad! Not sure if importing STL files will save you anytime though, FreeCad can handle them but as they're not parametrically defined they can't be used in the same way as native objects.

Even the best slip up sometimes :) It also depends on whether you count the AA, BB combinations, I think not in this case, but if so then it would simply be N+N(N-1)/2. Either way your are still correct in that no factorials have to be calculated!

I could be wrong but... shouldn't it be N(N-1)/2 to get the unique combinations? (ie discarding one of AB or BA combinations as required in the OP)

Thanks all for the comments - plenty to choose from! Still haven't decided...

Perfect - where can I get one!

About my level :)

I like this idea!

Mmmmaaa....? Maaaacc...? Macccb...? Nope, can't force myself to say it!!! Tbh, I have no doubt that you are right in terms of hardware, looks, OS stability (just guessing on that one but got to be better than windows right?) But I just don't see myself making the change. On the other hand there is a definite shift in reliance on Windows in my work, maybe I'll give it a look...