The Longest Thread In RHP History

Originally posted by dfm65
i think what is sorely needed here is an interesting topic, and less drivel. that way the thread would grow more quickly, and less painfully too. may i suggest renaissance basket weaving?

Originally posted by genius
i am a bit sceptical about the enjoyment that that topic would bring to such a large number of teenage chess geeks-how about we discuss the inaccuraces of calculas-calculating an area/gradient by making a single point. i mean-how?!? is this possible?!?!?!?!? (does my afternoon of flat-out ping-pong show? i had a double free period which i spent getting sunbur ...[text shortened]... and discussing pointless topics such as "what if what you see as red i see as green?" etc...)

Originally posted by UncleAdam
I like ping-pong! I got a gold metal (plastic) at camp last year (the same camp I'm about to go to in a few weeks)

Originally posted by LivingLegend
I've been playing table-tennins for 4 years...I seemed to be quite good but I didn't liked it anymore...was region champion...🙂

Olav

We used to play Round Robin with 6+ people a couple of years back on holiday. It was brilliant. Our team was me a couple of belgians, 2 Dutch brothers and a French guy and we were the best team in the camp!

😛

Originally posted by orkyboy
We used to play Round Robin with 6+ people a couple of years back on holiday. It was brilliant. Our team was me a couple of belgians, 2 Dutch brothers and a French guy and we were the best team in the camp!

😛

Originally posted by CFC
Who's played "round the table" ?




p.s. Orkyboy, move in our game.

Originally posted by LivingLegend
I did, always fun, especially when you're on vacation!

Olav

Originally posted by CFC
I was once too slow and threw my bat across the table to get it.😕

Have you ever thought that this could be why the site is getting slow?

I mean, how many bytes is that? We could overload the server, but you need a lot of pure text data to accumulate even a megabyte. It depends on how the site stores the data. Is this 1502 or 1503?

Lets figure this out...

Assuming the smallest size, the average post is 50 characters (probably actually around 150). The text uses asky-ex (ASCII extended) which has 256 characters. X - Root (256) = 2 Therefore x equals 8, which is bits. Is it 8 or 4 bits per byte? Whew 🙄

Must be 8. There are 50 bytes per post then assuming that everything else comes up as an automated system (ie avatars, lines, user names...). Of course, each post in the file must have the poster's name and a separator between posts, about 10 more bytes.

There are 1503 posts including this one, so that's 90,180 bytes divided by 1024 bytes per true kilobyte.

Of course all the lowest number assumptions I made. It is probably x4 because of all those so 352 kb 😏

Originally posted by qurlix
Of course all the lowest number assumptions I made. It is probably x4 because of all those so 352 kb 😏

Originally posted by CFC
I was once too slow and threw my bat across the table to get it.😕

Originally posted by LivingLegend
Did you get it?

Olav