puzzle: can you see where i went RONG lj

[dubdobdee]

warning: not that difficult but i had to think quite hard before i spotted the error!

A: i have 44 photos to email to a friend
B: so i decided to send them in 4 seperate emails
C: 44 divides nicely by 4 so nuumber is easy
D: i divided them in tranches* of 11
E: viz 1-11, 12-23, 24-35, 35-46
F: er wait...
G: let the others see if they can see the mistake b4 one and indeed all point and indeed indeed larf non-stop at me!!


*it means slice! i have used it for years! a tranche of PIE please! shut up!

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Reverse fencepost error. This is why computer ppl start counting at zero, innit?

[koganbot]

Once you say "error," obviously I see it, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't have started off by making the same one.

A different problem is that the greatest years of music in my life are 1966, 1977, 1988, and 1999* (that's chronological, not preference, though '66 would probably lead both; it also is a year I remember fondly as the second worst of my life; '65 was worst). But the principle involved here is uncertain. Perhaps the greatest years come every eleven years (possibly related to the sunspot cycle), with the the repeated numerals 66, 77, etc. being a coincidence (e.g., '65, '76, '87 would have been the same phenomenon shifted by one year). Or perhaps the repeated numerals are what correlate to greatness. But '00 doesn't come close to matching the others, so either, (1) the eleven-year cycle is still in effect, or (2) zeros don't count.

The way things are going, or, more accurately, the way the r&b-dance amalgam that's dominating the charts all of a sudden is stinking up the joint, I really doubt that 2010 will be a year of greatness, unless something amazing comes from somewhere I'm not looking (which is hardly impossible). So I'm pinning my hopes on 2011, and option 2.

*1955 is a subject for further research, as I was only one year old; "Mystery Train," "Bo Diddley," "Maybellene," and "Tutti Frutti" are an impressive quartet, but I suspect that '56 was the real efflorescence.