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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 | ...
- 1.1m
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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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Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]
clearly this entry is in category b,
--- see avatar here ----------------------------------------------
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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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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