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What are some interesting things about coins?

 

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Hi, and welcome to the forum!
If you want people to reply to this, make another topic in the introductions category.
If you'd like to know, my favorite coins are Peace Dollars and Franklin Half Dollars.

 

That is very interesting. I will have to remember If you want people to reply to this, make another topic in the introductions category.

What else can you tell me about coins?

 

We're all great too!

You 1st....

The really early dates or ages that you can obtain coins in, the different Finishes, the different designs, the raritys, the history, etc.. etc..

I'm my opinion you either get it or you don't...

So, What brings you here???

 

This thread reminds me of Edgar Burgan and Charlie McCarthy. The problem is I can't tell which one is Charlie!

 

That is very interesting. I will have to remember This thread reminds me of Edgar Burgan and Charlie McCarthy.

Why is this a problem?

What else can you tell me about coins?

 

Just what coins are you wanting to know about....we need alittle more info before we can help??

Speedy

 

Whats interesting to me is how you rephrase everything someone posts... If we were in a Chatroom, I'd sware you were a Bot...

Where you from anyway?
What coins have you collected so far???

 

HA! Elite Robot.


very clever....

 

Why do you say If we were in a Chatroom, I'd sware you were a Bot...? I am not a Bot. Are you a Bot?

Please tell me more about this topic.

 

Why do you say HA! Elite Robot.? I am not a Bot. Are you a Bot?

Please tell me more about this topic.

 

The Coin Paradox
© Copyright 2002, Jim Loy

We have two identical coins. And we roll the one on the left halfway around the other coin, so it rotates without slipping against the other coin, so that it ends up on the right of the other coin. It has rolled over a length of only half its circumference, and yet it has made one complete rotation. If it started right side up, then it ended right side up. Does that make sense? Think about it.


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Answer: Of course it makes sense, and is no paradox, despite the title of this article. But it surprises people, and is a famous puzzle. On the right, we see one source of the surprise. The coin rolls a distance C (its circumference) along a straight line, and ends right side up. After a distance C/2, it is upside down. Obviously the situations are different.

Just to give you a little more experience with rolling coins, look at the diagram on the left. Here a coin "rolls" around a point. It goes zero distance (approximately) and makes one half rotation. So the distance rolled along a curved path has little to do with the coin's rotation, as viewed by a non-rotating viewer, like yourself.

There are different ways to look at the first diagram, the original "paradox." From a viewer on the stationary coin, the rolling coin did make only one half rotation. Or we can add rotations; the coin made 1/2 rotation + it made a U-turn around the other coin, for a second 1/2 rotation (like our third diagram). The sum is one complete rotation. Still another way of looking at it is that the center of the moving coin is not moving a distance of C/2, but C. So, even though the point of contact has moved a distance of C/2, the coin has move a distance of C. And it should rotate once.


http://www.jimloy.com/puzz/coin.htm

 

Would someone please explain to an old duffer what the a chatroom "Bot" is?

If my guess is right, that it is an automated program of some kind generating postings without direct and immediate participation by a human being, steps can be taken to eliminate it from CoinTalk.

 

Why do you say Would someone please explain to an old duffer what the a chatroom "Bot" is?? I am not a Bot. Are you a Bot?

Please tell me more about this topic.

 

Here you go satookoto-

chatbot Definition

(Or "chatterbot") A {bot} meant to be able to interact conversationally with humans. A chatbot is either an exercise in {AI} or merely as an interface, as in an {infobot}. One of the first and most famous chatterbots (prior to the Web) was {Eliza}. (1999-06-19)


Also see ALICE-
(Artificial LInguistic Computer Entity) A chat bot designed by Dr. Richard Wallace. It is an open source program written in Java that can be modified using AIML (AI Markup Language). ALICE was first written in SETL and released in 1995. See AIML and SETL.

 

Thanks budgood.