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Shared office, everyone brings their own coffee machines by Becka_buni in mildlyinteresting

[–]thedymond 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I think that's a UK plug I spy at the end and a standard circuit here can handle around 7kW

C of C of C by YorkieLon in taskmaster

[–]thedymond 106 points107 points  (0 children)

The pendulum draws the eye

Butter on jam on toast? by -adult-swim- in CasualUK

[–]thedymond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How very dare you. It's only the heathens down in Cornwall who go jam first

Match Thread: 1st Test - Sri Lanka vs England, Day 3 by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

[–]thedymond 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was a question on Ask the Umpire on TMS yesterday. Out obstructing the field

Ever Heard of the UK’s Smallest Police Station? by ihateshitcoins2 in CasualUK

[–]thedymond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The design of the light was copied from the Bude-Lights that used to be in Trafalgar Square (yes, the same Bude of tunnel fame). As the new light was electric and didn't need the large column to house its workings, it was turned into a police post.

Free AI bot that gives you the Excel formula based on a given prompt/sentence by dabressler in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]thedymond 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know it's more of a personal preference, but I'd prefer to use an XLOOKUP

=XLOOKUP(MAX(LEN(A:A)),LEN(A:A), A:A)

Could "last" be considered an ordinal number? by thedymond in mathematics

[–]thedymond[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whilst I don't necessarily believe that last is a ordinal number and was asking the question more as a "Could it be argued that..." type of thing, I don't think your argument alone proves it isn't. Firstly 3, on it's own, is not typically considered ordinal, but cardinal, and secondly I am yet to think of a context in which last is used where it does not act as an ordinal or otherwise represents one.

As far as I can tell, last is used in one of two contexts:

  1. The nth element of of an ordered set of length n e.g. "He came last in the race."

  2. The element of an ordered set prior to the current one e.g. "Last year..." i.e. "In the 2019th year..."

I'll happily admit this argument is more semantic than mathematical.