A Musky smell on high

Last week there was such a musky smell on high.
I wonder what caused that?

Copyright ^© Ole Phat Stu on January 20, 2025 permalink Comments Email

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Soft snowfall

We had our first snowfall yesterday that did not immediately melt. About 5 to 8 inches. I particularly liked the way it rested on the bare branches of the trees. See my photo below.

Walnut tree on the left. Apple tree on the right, pine in the background, That is an Angry Birds ceramic in the foreground. Hope you like the photo.

Wish I could teleport all the snow to the LA area to help put out all those Santa Ana fed fires!

Copyright ^© Ole Phat Stu on January 10, 2025 permalink Comments Email

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2025 is a nice number

Or, at least, mathematically interesting.

2025 is e.g. a perfect square, so we can write
2025 as 45².

And since 45 can be written as the sum of 20 and 25, we also get
(20+25)²= 2025.

But 45 is the sum of the single digits 1..9, so we also get (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²= 2025.

Alternatively, grouping the single digits differently, we get
(5+6+9) = 20 and (1+2+3+4+7+8) = 25 and (20+25)²= 2025.

And 2025 is also the product of two squares, since
2025 = 5² * 9²

Not only that, 2025 is also the sum of three squares, since
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025

in Addition,
2025 is the sum of the first 45 odd numbers, 1+3+5...+87+89

But, if you prefer cubes to squares
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025.

And 2025 is also perfectly divisible by the sum of its digits
2+0+2+5 = 9, and 2025/9 has remainder zero.

Summarising . . .

So a nice 2025 to all of my readers !

Comments (2)
Finding life hard? wrote " I knew 2025 was a good number! I hope it’s alright thatt I’ve copied a few of your mathematical facts for my blog (credit given). I was so pleased to be proven right. Happy New Year to you and SWMBO. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda" Same to you, Liz !
Billions of Versions... wrote " Make that an awesome number!" Or sum number?

Copyright ^© Ole Phat Stu on January 4, 2025 permalink Comments Email

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Banging the Bank

Well, the new year started off with a Bang here, but not as anticipated.

As I told you in August 2021, the bank branch in the neighbouring village was closed down and replaced by weekly visits from a mobile bank truck. The bank branch in the neighbouring village was replaced by a cash-dispenser in a building on the church corner. So some thieves saw an opportunity here.

Cleverly they waited until the New Year celebrations when many folks were setting off fireworks (bangers etc). Then, at about 02:25 at night, they set off explosives to open the cash dispenser, making off with thousands of Euros.

However a neighbour saw them running off with bags of cash and got their car number plate then called the police. They dumped that stolen car about 20 miles away, changing to their own car. Turns out, the police found the stolen car abandoned, quite quickly.

This morning I drove to the baker's shop just across the road from the scene of the crime but got diverted by the police at the church corner, because they were investigating the scene of the crime. So I took another route to the bakery, where I was told what had happened (bank robbery).

Usually cash dispensers squirt dye into the notes when opened explosively, so they may have got dye on their hands too, when grabbing the cash.

What an exciting start to the year in our sleepy villages!

I wish you all a more peaceful 2025 ;-)

Copyright ^© Ole Phat Stu on January 2, 2025 permalink Comments Email

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