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A proposal to include a duck in our background image

Yes, definitely!
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A proposal to include a duck in our background image

Attractive though the addition of a duck is, I am not in favour of this proposal. However, I am not opposed on the grounds that it is 'too silly'. I am opposed on the grounds that it would ...
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When will @egreg reach 654321

Like Renaissance mathematicians did, I'll give my guess in encrypted form so as not to influence other participants. I expressed my guess in the format YYYY-MM-DD and issued echo ZZZZZZ YYYY-MM-DD | ...
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The duck giveaway 2016

0, 201 .....................................................
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The duck giveaway 2016

2 and 198 (to be close to both egreg and David because they seem to always know what they are doing on TeX.SE)
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When will @egreg reach 654321

I think he will never get to the target in 2018 due to several thousand questions about % at end of line being reclassified as duplicates and deleted resulting in a loss of most of his Rep. If I win ...
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19 votes

Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]

clearly this entry is in category b, --- see avatar here ---------------------------------------------- | ...
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18 votes

The duck giveaway 2016

113 and 86 (the ages of my mother and sister if they had survived this long).
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The duck giveaway 2016

1 and 200 (just to be more daring than David)
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The duck giveaway 2016

Nothing better than good prime duck, so 3 and 197 (lowest and highest available prime numbers)
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When will @egreg reach 654321

Based on this query and linear extrapolation, it should be May 13th, 2018, 14:55:25
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Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]

This is my entry for Category B (pretty sweaters). It features my avatar (a Ulysses butterfly) on a sweater. If it displays right, the wings should flap intermittently. I coded this image using just ...
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A proposal to include a duck in our background image

Everybody can decide for themselves Luckily there are browser addons which can exchange the default background image by a version including the duck, so every user can decide if he/she wants to use ...
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Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]

The following sweater features a scene created by @UlrikeFischer from the Great TikZducks Christmas Extravaganza 2017 I'd like my avatar to enter the contest of pretty sweaters - after all it has ...
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12 votes

The duck giveaway 2016

133 and 55. …do stressed ducks quack under pressure when their goose is cooked? (Sorry if you're not pond of these daffy puns.)
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A question about ducks and other animals

Dogs and cats don't taste so nice, but Duck is very versatile. Roast Duck, Crispy Duck Pancakes, Duck burgers, ....
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When will @egreg reach 654321

18-05-18 08:05:08 UTC
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When will @egreg reach 654321

May 23, 2018 at around 12:00 noon. This is the cumulative, annual reputation of @egreg, post 2011 (the first year of joining): 2011: 54,140 2012: (+ 92,699; +71.2%) 146,839 2013: (+ 98,357; +6.1%) ...
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A question about ducks and other animals

We love any animal, see "The duck pond": showcase of TikZ-drawn animals/ducks! But some of them have a special meaning here. Duane Bibby's lion is the "trademark" of TeX, there are also ...
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10 votes

The duck giveaway 2016

97 and 88, because: sage: randint(1,200) 97 sage: randint(1,200) 88
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The duck giveaway 2016

18 and 67 for the years of Canadian confederation. While not ducks, the Canadian goose is considered waterfowl...
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9 votes

The duck giveaway 2016

As always; 131; I'm a random number generator myself and this is the result. Also another generator agrees; I have generated another one which is 68.
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9 votes

The duck giveaway 2016

I am opting for the two perfect numbers 6 and 28.
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The duck giveaway 2016

007 and 070. Help me win this, James Bond!
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Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]

To give @samcarter the credits back, here the shirt/sweater I made with the nice chess figurine she made for me. It naturally enters in b too.
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The duck giveaway 2016

Well, obviously the numbers have to be generated from "DUCK" and "QUACK", so my choices are 004 and 076. Generated by concatenating the binary ASCII-representations of each letter, taking the ...
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8 votes

The duck giveaway 2016

026 + {197}† are the lowest/highest available numbers which total to my rep. Most other users here would have to add a "k" after it! Is there a consolation prize for "lowest rep user to participate"? :...
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The duck giveaway 2016

13 and 111. Cwac, cwac a chwac!!
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