Look what I just wasted an hour doing!
Jul. 10th, 2005 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyI still have a problem set to finish, but I had no clock, so I had no idea how long I was taking...
I just made a giant grid of the elemental symbols. Uppercase letters on the vertical axis, lowercase plus an underscore (for no second letter) on the horizontal. If it makes an element, it's blacked in. Also, the diagonal (Aa, Bb...) is highlighted along the edges of its boxes. At the bottom of each column and the end of each row is a count of how many it contains; next to each uppercase letter is how many elements that element appears in. The most is R, with 19. At the bottom right is the total number of permanently named elements (the only ones included, obviously), and to the bottom right of that, the number of elements on the diagonal (0).
Oh, there were two mistakes still on our earlier elements thing: Firstly, we missed niobium (Nb). But since we had 111, this means we must have invented another element. Or at least, another symbol - I had accidentally included Fl, presumably an absentminded second symbol for fluorine.
-Sniffnoy
I just made a giant grid of the elemental symbols. Uppercase letters on the vertical axis, lowercase plus an underscore (for no second letter) on the horizontal. If it makes an element, it's blacked in. Also, the diagonal (Aa, Bb...) is highlighted along the edges of its boxes. At the bottom of each column and the end of each row is a count of how many it contains; next to each uppercase letter is how many elements that element appears in. The most is R, with 19. At the bottom right is the total number of permanently named elements (the only ones included, obviously), and to the bottom right of that, the number of elements on the diagonal (0).
Oh, there were two mistakes still on our earlier elements thing: Firstly, we missed niobium (Nb). But since we had 111, this means we must have invented another element. Or at least, another symbol - I had accidentally included Fl, presumably an absentminded second symbol for fluorine.
-Sniffnoy
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