Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Buddies 
@El Loro posted:A BBC news item about Claude the koala:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66713980
Article ends on the concerns that koalas are becoming an endangered species.
The sneaky little devil 
At the bottom of that story are three pictures. The bottom one tells of a dog called Bear. He finds sick and injured kolas. Thanks to him there are 100 kolas that are alive and well. Well done Bear 
aww the little koala so sneaky but clever
and so so sad koalas are in decline
awww Bear the dog -love that he was trained to detect and save koalas-thank you EL
Just sent a list of my comments and queries to a client. It's taken rather a long time and is rather complex. I rang him yesterday to warn him about this as it will take him some time and he'll need a clear head.
Client had not done anything wrong, it's just rather complex information for a lay person. It's a bit like some of those math posers I've posted here
@El Loro posted:Just sent a list of my comments and queries to a client. It's taken rather a long time and is rather complex. I rang him yesterday to warn him about this as it will take him some time and he'll need a clear head.
Client had not done anything wrong, it's just rather complex information for a lay person. It's a bit like some of those math posers I've posted here
Good luck to him El
@Moonie posted:Hopefully you will find a new replacement or one of your current players will take over the mantle
There have been some loan players coming in but little sign that there;s anyone who is equal to Alfie May who has scored 4 goals more in League Once so far this season that the total number scored by Cheltenham which is zero.
@El Loro posted:There have been some loan players coming in but little sign that there;s anyone who is equal to Alfie May who has scored 4 goals more in League Once so far this season that the total number scored by Cheltenham which is zero.
Itâs a shame you couldnât have kept Alfie May
night EL slim moonsiee
Another rather pointless Youube maths poser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X32dce7_D48
Asking why the factorial of 0 (which is written out as 0!) equal to 1.
Factorials of numbers are 1 times 2 times 3 and so until one gets to times that number. So the factorial of 5 (5!) is 1x2x3x4x5 = 120. So zero isn't used in calculating factorials.
But one can work out what 0! would be in theory by working backwards.
5! = 120
So 4! = 120 / 5 =24
3! = 24 / 4 = 6
2! = 6 / 3 = 2
1! = 2 / 2 = 1
If you see the pattern of the above, by continuing the pattern we get:
0! = 1/1 = 1
I haven't bothered to watch the clip but I assume it works the answer out as I have.
(factorials get used in things such as permutations and combinations)
@El Loro posted:Another rather pointless Youube maths poser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X32dce7_D48
Asking why the factorial of 0 (which is written out as 0!) equal to 1.
Factorials of numbers are 1 times 2 times 3 and so until one gets to times that number. So the factorial of 5 (5!) is 1x2x3x4x5 = 120. So zero isn't used in calculating factorials.
But one can work out what 0! would be in theory by working backwards.
5! = 120
So 4! = 120 / 5 =24
3! = 24 / 4 = 6
2! = 6 / 3 = 2
1! = 2 / 2 = 1
If you see the pattern of the above, by continuing the pattern we get:
0! = 1/1 = 1
I haven't bothered to watch the clip but I assume it works the answer out as I have.(factorials get used in things such as permutations and combinations)
I would need a new brain to work that out El
Moonie, the number of games played in a season in a league can be worked out using permutations.
So the Premier League has 20 teams.
Using permutations, the number of games in a season is:
20 times 19 equals 380 divided by 1 times 2 which works out at 190. But that gets doubled as each team played other teams home and away. So 380 games in a season.
Suppose triangular football was to be introduced.
If a league had 10 teams then
10 times 9 times 8 equals 720 divided by 1 times 2 times 3 (equals 6) which works out at 120. If each team plays the fixtures at home and the other two sides in a season then 120 times 3 equals 360 games in a season.
Not as far fetched as that sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzbnKQKszm4
@El Loro posted:Moonie, the number of games played in a season in a league can be worked out using permutations.
So the Premier League has 20 teams.
Using permutations, the number of games in a season is:
20 times 19 equals 380 divided by 1 times 2 which works out at 190. But that gets doubled as each team played other teams home and away. So 380 games in a season.Suppose triangular football was to be introduced.
If a league had 10 teams then
10 times 9 times 8 equals 720 divided by 1 times 2 times 3 (equals 6) which works out at 120. If each team plays the fixtures at home and the other two sides in a season then 120 times 3 equals 360 games in a season.
Not as far fetched as that sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzbnKQKszm4
Iâll take your word for it El 
@El Loro posted 27/9/22:Got as phone call this morning from the outfit carrying out surveys for HMRC. I had received a letter about this a few weeks ago and had emailed the outfit to opt out. I had received an email back to accept my request. Someone will get told off for not processing my request. The caller this morning was apologetic.
The survey was about HMRC services and was targetted at both those who have to complete tax returns and also at agents. Fairly obviously I use my tax software to file my tax return rather than use HMRC's own. And I use that software for filing clients returns. My use of HMRC services is minimal and I didn't want to waste my time in answering questions in a survey.
Just had a letter from the same survey outfit as I had a year ago who are intending to ring me in the next 5 weeks to carry out a survey on HMRC services.
Letter, as last year, claims that people are chosen on a random basis. Either there's a problem with the way selections are chose or there's nothing random about it but targeted.
Sent off an email to them and also to the survey team at HMRC about this.See what they have to say, if anything.
Afternoon troops 
Salutes.
Hope all are well and enjoying our week of summer at last 
Falls out
Get Some In - quite funny 
@El Loro posted:Just had a letter from the same survey outfit as I had a year ago who are intending to ring me in the next 5 weeks to carry out a survey on HMRC services.
Letter, as last year, claims that people are chosen on a random basis. Either there's a problem with the way selections are chose or there's nothing random about it but targeted.
Sent off an email to them and also to the survey team at HMRC about this.See what they have to say, if anything.
It sounds like their ârandomâ is not very random El
@Moonie posted:It sounds like their ârandomâ is not very random El
I did get a reply to my email from the same person I contacted last year. Apologised for the phone call I got last year from the outfit some weeks after the person had supposedly removed me from the survey. Said I would be removed from the list of those surveyed
Claimed that those selected were on a random basis.
Facts from last year's survey:
Interviews were carried out with 2,273 Individuals, 2,081 Small Businesses and 1,850 Agents between 1 September and 18 November 2022.
Individuals would be from anyone who had any dealings with HMRC in the previous year so that would include anyone who had rung them or did tax returns (the number of returns is around 12 million,
So 2,273 people would be about 1 in every 5,000 people.
There are about 5.5 million small businesses in the UK.
So 2,081 small businesses would be about in every 2,600 small businesses.
Then the last category and the most likely for me to have been selected are tax agents. Those aren't just accountants who do tax returns, they include bookkeepers who are involved with doing VAT returns for their clients and also payroll bureaus.
There are around 65,000 tax agents in the UK.
So 1,850 agents selected is about 1 in every 35 agents.
So the chances of me having been selected on a random basis is about 1 in 35.
So not impossible but not likely. (all the info above can be found online so there's no guesswork on my part).
nighth EL slim moonsiieee velvet
Some years ago I posted about the musical child prodigy Alma Deutscher. She is 18 now and moved to Vienna a few years ago. She is still a pianist, a violinist, a composer and also a conductor.
A clip of a more mature type of music that she composed more recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0xMpLXQNvM
The start of the music is not representative of most of it which is quite pleasant.
@El Loro posted:Some years ago I posted about the musical child prodigy Alma Deutscher. She is 18 now and moved to Vienna a few years ago. She is still a pianist, a violinist, a composer and also a conductor.
A clip of a more mature type of music that she composed more recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0xMpLXQNvM
The start of the music is not representative of most of it which is quite pleasant.
Somehow it does actually remind me of Vienna, I don't know why, as I've never been there 
She doesn't look more than about 13/14 years old ....obviously very gifted
Thank you El
@slimfern posted:Somehow it does actually remind me of Vienna, I don't know why, as I've never been there
She doesn't look more than about 13/14 years old ....obviously very gifted
Thank you El
Johann Strauss II, the Austrian composer, famous for popularising the Viennese waltz and of course The Blue Danube
@El Loro posted:Some years ago I posted about the musical child prodigy Alma Deutscher. She is 18 now and moved to Vienna a few years ago. She is still a pianist, a violinist, a composer and also a conductor.
A clip of a more mature type of music that she composed more recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0xMpLXQNvM
The start of the music is not representative of most of it which is quite pleasant.
was gorgeous EL-thankyou Alma is amazing- very talented
@El Loro posted:Only 51 thousand people have seen this memorable clip on Youtube:
loved this stunning-thankyou EL
night EL slim moonsiieee velvet
Slim, little new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel this coming week. On Friday at 4.05 in the morning there's a 1948 film noir called "The Velvet Touch". Stars Rosalind Russell, Claire Trevor and Sydney Greenstreet as the investigating officer. Mixed reviews with some thinking it was very good and some rather boring.