January 9, 2017 Open Thread; Martyrs' Day (Panama)
January 9 is the 9th day of the year. There are 356 days left.
Today's number is 9
9 is the largest single digit integer
9 is the square of a prime and is the second lowest such square
"Casting out nines" is a quick way of testing the calculations of sums, differences, products, and quotients of integers. It was known as long ago as the 12th Century. It is also the basis of a lot of "magic" tricks and puzzles. There used to be some based on the rotary phone dial too. Essentially, They are modulo 9 math.
A number is divisible by 9 if its digital root is 9. A number's digital root is the sum of its digits. If such sum is greater than one digit, then those digits are also summed, etc. Thus the digital root of 18 is 9 (8+1), and the digital root of 456 is 6 (4+5+6 = 15 and 1+5 = 6)
Now the fun:
1/9 = 0.11 followed by an infinite string of 1s
2/9 = 2 x 0.11 to infinity = 0.22 followed by an infinite string of 2s
3/9, of course, is 0.33 fol;lowed by an infinite string of 3s, etc.
This brings us to
9/9 = 0.99 followed by an infinite string of 9s, which is also 1. Back in the stoneage, a test of calculators and computers was to perform the operation (1/9)x9 and see if it returned 1 or 0.9999999 etc.
Conversely:
123456789 x 9 = 111,111,111
123456789 x 18 = 222,222,222 (because 18 = 2 x 9)
etc up to
123456789 x 72 = 888,888,888 (9 x 8 ) and
123456789 x 81 = 999,999,999 (9 x 9)
9 is the number of lives a domestic cat has
9 is the Jersey number worn by the inimitable Ted Williams.
9 is Fluorine.
9 is Organic: Five-digit produce PLU codes that begin with 9 are organic.
A 9 sided polygon is a nonagon, aka an enneagon
There are 9 justices on the US Supreme Court
TITLE 9 of the U.S. Code is Arbitration
9 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Crispinus.
Nero Claudius Drusus died and Emperor Ping of Han was born.
9 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Camerinus
The Rhine river was established as the boundary between the Latin- and German-speaking worlds, following the defeat of the Roman army, under the command of Varus, at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. (Varus again)
Italy adopted the Lex Papia Poppaea outlawing celibacy and childless relationships, unlike later under the popes, who favored celibacy, though still abhorring childless relationships.
In China, Wang Mang founded the Xin dynasty, which lasted 16 years
On this day in:
0681 -- The Twelfth Council of Toledo decreed all kinds of twisted shit
1349 -- The people of Basel, rounded up and burnt Basel's Hewish population for causing the Black Plague.
1431 -- Judges in Rouen began preparatory investigations for Joan of Arc's "trial".
1792 -- The Treaty of Jassy between Russian and the Ottoman Empire ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-92 and formally recognized the Russian Empire's prior annexation of the Crimean Khanate via the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca of 1783
1793 -- The first person flew in a balloon in the US
1816 -- Sir Humphry Davy tested his miner's safety lamp
1822 -- Prince Pedro I of Brazil began the Brazilian independence process.
1839 -- The French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype photography process.
1857 -- The 7.9 Mw Fort Tejon earthquake rattled Central and Southern California
1858 -- The last President of the Texas Republic committed suicide.
1916 -- The last Allied forces were evacuated from the Gallipoli peninsula
1923 -- The first autogyro flight took place.
1957 -- Sir Anthony Eden resigned after failing to retake the Suez Canal from Egypt.
1960 -- Gamal Abdel Nasser initiated construction of the Aswan Dam
1964 -- Panamanian youths tried to raise the Panamanian flag on the Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military forces and Panamanian civilians. This is celebrated in Panama as Martyr's Day
1996 -- Chechen separatists lattacked the helicopter field and civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar, Dagestan
2005 -- Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority
2005 -- The end of the Second Sudanese Civil War.
2007 -- The original iPhone was iintroduced by iApple's iCEO at iMacWorld
Born this day in:
1728 -- Thomas Warton, poet, historian, and critic
1735 -- John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, admiral and politician
1859 -- Carrie Chapman Catt, activist, founded the League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
1870 -- Joseph Strauss, engineer, co-designer of the Golden Gate Bridge
1890 -- Karel Capek, author and playwright, a tool of Rossum's Universal Robots, he introduced the word robot
1898 -- Gracie Fields, actress and singer
1901 -- Chic Young, cartoonist, sandwich aficionado
1908 -- Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and author
1913 -- Richard Nixon, not a crook, owned a dog named Checkers, expert on Quemoy & Matsu
1925 -- Lee Van Cleef, angel eyes
1940 -- Al Downing, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1941 -- Joan Baez, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist
1944 -- Jimmy Page, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1948 -- Bill Cowsill, head Cowsill
1951 -- Crystal Gayle, singer, songwriter, and producer
1965 -- Eric Erlandson, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, founding member of Hole
1978 -- A. J. McLean, backstreet boy
Died this day in:
1324 -- Marco Polo, travelling salesman
1848 -- Caroline Herschel, astronomer
1873 -- Napoleon III, 1st President of France
1878 -- Victor Emmanuel II
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Martyrs' Day (Panama)
Eastern Orthodox Feast of Stephen
So, for music
Gracie Fields
Al Downing
Joan Baez
Jimmy Page
Bill Cowsill
Crystal Gayle
Eric Erlandson
A. J. McLean
Gracie Fields
Al Downing
Joan Baez
Jimmy Page
Bill Cowsill
Crystal Gayle
Eric Erlandson
A. J. McLean
OK, what's on your minds?
Comments
Are we at war? Or Medevac copter is doing an early
morning run? Red sky this AM. Dog is barking at specks again.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Tom Mooney set free
California Labor it's in my DNA. Sometime around 1929 my grandpa wrote this book: Governor Young "Pardon Tom Mooney he is innocent" Judge Griffin : the horror of thirteen years unjust and cruel imprisonment.
But it didn't work, not until a Democrat was elected governor. Coincidentally my patriarchal given name is Young (#156), but for today, grandpa Griffin was the 9th lawyer to pass the California State Bar in August 1899. #9
Thanks enhydra lutris, I don't know how you all keep at it, thanks a lot.
Speaking of California Labor
and another thing! http://www.edd.ca.gov/Payroll_Taxes/FAQ_-_California_New_Employee_Registry.htm
Yet another database. It's as if the only solutions available depend upon whether you have one. Or not. Big Bro, no exceptions.
DE34, because a W-2 contains exactly the same information? Exactly! States rights. There must be a lot of child non-supporters in California, I think that's what they're after, something that is already there. The new Ds will do anything in lieu of
raisingliving wages it seems. "That's the system."Beatings will continue...
until morale improves!
Here's hoping your day is so good that it will be hard to beat!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Actually, there are 8 judges on the Supreme Court
(7 if you discount Clarence Thomas). There have been as few as five, and as many as ten.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
haha
As soon as I saw this morning's number, I knew I had to post the Love Potion song. Then, reading along, I see you've got it! Thanks, el! I like that song.
Good morning, everybody.
My only answer to the Councils of Toledo
and just because I really like Paul Buchanan's vocal work in general, not to mention that his bassist Robert Bell is a fine quirky Chapman Stick player (A Walk Across The Rooftops was what convinced me to take up Stick)....
A good Monday song, regardless.
Thanks. Someday I'll have to do something that is all stick.
I did once do all bass, so why not.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
All bass? Excellent! That calls for
TAP!
another day, another "where's a hole to hide in"?
gonna be bumpy from here on. The aftermath of us being given the choice between two disasters is almost upon us.
I don't think the World is big enough to accomodate
enough hiding holes for all of us who want to hide. I still believe Trump's offensiveness will do more to trigger a new predominant, progressive paradigm than would Hillary's triangulations.
Beware the bullshit factories.
The memory hole, of course, perfect palce to hide.
There was a long running meme differentiating between two poles of response:
Goody two shoes -
and not so much -
But, the truth is to simply suck it up and face reality -
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks EL
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Number 9
Any number divisible by nine, digits will add up to a number divisible by nine.
1,845/9=205
1+8+4+5=18; 2*9=18
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
There are only eight justices on the supreme court
Man do I despise Mitch McConnell.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Back in the stone age 1977.
We got one of them new fangled desktop computers. I set down and typed a simple do loop:
INTEGER :: Count, Sum
Sum = 0
DO Count = 1, 15
Sum = Sum + 1
PRINT Sum
END DO
The output:
1
2
3
4
5
6
6.9999
8
9
10
11
12
12.9999
14
15
or something like that. I do not remember where the X.9999 entries were but they were in the list. Good times they were. Sounds like your machines were better than our machines.
Back then
I had a debate with as associate doing a control system. He was using the parallelogram rule to find the width of a strip and the system kept hanging up. He was using trig functions and his equation theoretically should have returned a zero whenever the system was at the correct width. Sometimes it did. I told him to check for +/- .0001 and we argued for about a week, until he finally tried it. No more system deadlocks.
Second verse. I worked for a company that made programmable logic controllers that solve a boolean logic referred to as ladder logic. The controllers solved the logic down, then right updating the states at the end of the scan. As more processing power became available, the firmware was evolved to 1) scan left->right, then down and 2) have real time state updates. The company planned to abandon the old firmware and simply have users load the new logic solver. It took me about a month to convince them that the scanning change and real time update would have unintended consequences and cause deadlocks.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -