craigb 5,225 Posted March 30 Got these in an email today and thought I'd share! 🙂 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shane_B. 706 Posted March 30 The fox sentence is what all the typewriter repairmen used to test them way back when we still worked on them. Those IBM Selectric's were mechanical wonders. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sarine 321 Posted March 31 Quote A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. That would be 100 seconds. Sorry. I had to. It's not a choice. Of course I also had to look it up... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time) Clearly it's some kind of imperial unit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pwalpwal 2,884 Posted March 31 that's why babies have "big eyes" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craigb 5,225 Posted March 31 2 hours ago, sarine said: That would be 100 seconds. Sorry. I had to. It's not a choice. Of course I also had to look it up... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time) Clearly it's some kind of imperial unit. Well, you DID fake me out and make me check out that link! (Which confirms a jiffy is usually 1/100th of a second, not 100 seconds, though there are some other less-than-a-second uses.) Not that it's much better than Wikicrap, HERE is another link with similar info. 🙂 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurre 260 Posted March 31 Spot the false one competition. I have two: https://www.livescience.com/goldfish-memory.html https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-scissors-4070946 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bapu 5,121 Posted March 31 I have a 3 second memory when it comes to plugins. I purchased more than one plugin twice. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Syphus 133 Posted April 1 I as understand (via an article I read), gold fish do have more that 3 seconds recall . . . https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2019/10/27/how-long-is-a-goldfishs-memory/ Syphus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gswitz 460 Posted April 1 @Bapu, I've purchased the same plugin twice. The LA2A thing Cakewalk did. They eventually sold it for use in other DAWs. I bought it thinking there was some difference. I even tried diffing it with the original. LOL 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sarine 321 Posted April 1 17 hours ago, craigb said: Well, you DID fake me out and make me check out that link! (Which confirms a jiffy is usually 1/100th of a second, not 100 seconds, though there are some other less-than-a-second uses.) Not that it's much better than Wikicrap, HERE is another link with similar info. 🙂 "Usually" is not a word that the OP used (in contrast, "actual" was). Also, for me it confirms what seems to be horrible abuse of math/language. No wonder people find math confusing after all the obfuscating. A 100th = a hundredth = a percent = 1 per cent = 1 per 100 = 1 / 100 The "th", "per" and "/" here all indicate that we're dealing with a fraction. The fractions are nested, and dividing by divisor is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal, i.e.; A / B = A / (B / 1) = A * (1 / B) and if we replace B with (B / C) thus; A / (B / C) = A * (C / B) = AC / B we can already see that if either A=B or C=B, the factors cancel each other out, and because B=1 is implicit in "th", we assign A=1, B=1, C=100; and find that B=A, so we can write; A / (A / C) = A * (C / A) = AC / A = C Or, because; nⁱ = 1 / n⁻ⁱ ; we can write; p / (1 / n) = p / n⁻¹ = (n⁻¹ / p)⁻¹ which in our special case of p=1; = (n⁻¹ / 1)⁻¹ = (n⁻¹)⁻¹ = n¹ = n or more generally; (n⁻¹ / p)⁻¹ = n / p⁻¹ In other words: This is 1 of anything: This is a 100th of it: "How many times does the latter go into former" is the answer to "How much is 1/100th of itself". Something divided by a hundredth of itself is, unsurprisingly, one hundred. ◻ Quod erat deobfuscateraendum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craigb 5,225 Posted April 1 Well, Jiffy used to be peanut butter, but we're now realizing that was on a different timeline (causing the so-called Mandela Effect). It's called "Jif" in this timeline. If it was still called Jiffy and you had some, would you like seconds then? 😁 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craigb 5,225 Posted April 1 (Oh and Wikicrap still says 1/100 of a second or 10ms if you prefer. But not always! 😆) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sarine 321 Posted April 3 On 4/2/2022 at 1:53 AM, craigb said: Oh and Wikicrap still says 1/100 of a second or 10ms if you prefer. I do prefer. 🧐 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites