This thread has gone downhill in terms of quality over the last few posts.

 

Please amend.

 

:-Y

Ok, here is an interesting thing. You know steps in old buildings like castles and shit, where there's a curve worn into the leading edge from all the centuries of feet? That curves represents the probability distribution of where a foot is most likely to step, and ends up, unsurprisingly, as a bell curve.

At some point I'll take a photo of the thing outside my flat where people have been sitting for about 500 years. People's arses are surprisingly wearing.

:D

I would like to see that.

Wow, that's small. nj

This is the sort of thing I like learning about. :D

 

There must some sort of graph that can be drawn.

There is. It looks like a bell. :Y
HTH.

Would you be interested in knowing that the actual length of any river is about three times longer than the straight line joining the source to the end then? That's Maths too.

Eh? That must depend on the age of the river. And the softness of the terrain it travels through.

*searches*

Ok, so the average of all rivers approaches pi.

Now go and be equally picky with xen's factoid

Wouldn't it look like two bells with most people having two feet?

Do you stand on every step with both feet?

True, but not /accurate/ maths.

The only pickiness I can manage there is... oh, actually there's quite a lot!

Xen, stop uttering rubbish!

Does everyone stand on the same step with the same side foot?

No, I don't. But I'm thinking that dwarves might.

No idea.

"Wow, I thought KG showed up for a second!"

 

Yeah, I borrowed his sig' graphic.  I'm sure he periodically lurks, then thinks to himself "this place is like a den of wild ferrets" or some such thing. :D

*Feral ferrets.

Not because it alliterates, but because ferrets are a domestic animal so you don't get wild ones :Y

"I expected that to come from Truffy".

You know how us gun-crazed Americans are.  If nothing else, we're quick on the draw. ;-)