[SCA-Dance] "Self-declared level of ability"

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Fri Jun 29 19:52:37 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:58:29PM -0500, Charlene Charette wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> > If it puzzles anyone, I'm referring to the bassedance Cassule la
> > Nouvelle / Casulle la Novele / La spagna, where the count of doubles
> > in each phrase is 51513 (grande petite grande petite moyenne).
> > 51513 is not a valid ZIP code, but if it were, it would be somewhere
> > near Carter Lake (near Council Bluffs), Iowa, per
> > http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/zip_codes_Iowa2.htm
> > Huh, it's almost an enclave entirely enclosed within Omaha, Nebraska.
> 
> 
> If you want a valid number, you can go with gene IDs:
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/51513

Or look in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences:

http://oeis.org/A051513

I've been telling people 51513 is Sioux City, Iowa, for the past
decade. That's what I get for repeating hearsay!

-- Gregory




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