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War of the Minds - Archive - War X

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1. Forestry

A common recommendation for planting tree seedings is to plant 1,000 seedlings per acre at a 6 foot by 7 foot spacing (trees 6 feet apart in rows 7 feet apart). If I have a bundle containing exactly 1,000 tree seedings and I measure carefully to space the trees 6 X 7 feet, will I be able to plant my entire acre or will I have tree seedlings left over? I will be short or over by how many seedlings? How many seedlings will I require per acre if I decide to instead plant the trees at an 8' X 8' spacing?
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2. Computers

avi is to mpeg as bmp is to jpeg as wav is to what?
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3. Philosophy and Science

Spacecraft from earth have yet to visit one planet in our solar system. What planet? Plans to launch a spacecraft to visit this planet include plans to sample its atmosphere. To do this it will be necessary for the spacecraft to reach the planet before the year 2020 or else it will be necessary to wait over 200 years. Why?
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4. Logic

What is the missing number in this series?
73, 12, 6, 3, 5, ___, 4, 4
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• Zaheer Jhetam - 80 points for answers to questions 1, 3, and 4.
• Steven Skelton - 20 points for the answer to question 2.

1. Forestry

Perhaps I am being overly pedantic in stating that the answer to this question is "it depends". That is, the exact number of seedlings depends both on the shape of your acre of ground, and on whether you wish to plant exactly on the plot's boundary or not.
I will use two "extremes" for illustration:
*Plot "A" measures 7,260 feet by 6 feet (which gives an area of 43,560 square feet, or exactly one acre). You will thus be able to divide plot A into 1,037 rectangles, each measuring 7' by 6' (you will have a very small 1' x 6' strip of land outside the rectangles, as 1,037 x 7 =43,559).
If you now elect to plant a tree at the centre of each rectangle you will need exactly 1,037 seedlings. Alternatively, for a tree at each corner of the 1,037 rectangles, you will need (1,037 x 2) + 1 =2,075 seedlings.
*Plot "B" is very close to a square, at 220' x 198'. This acre will have 33 x 31 = 1,023 rectangles (again with some land left over). A tree at the centre of each rectangle will require, obviously, 1,023 seedlings, while a tree at each corner of the 1,023 rectangles will require 34 x 32 = 1,088 seedlings.
My conclusion, which admittedly is not mathematically rigorous, is that you will always be short of seedlings if you choose a 6' x 7' separation. For an 8' x 8" spacing with a close to square (220' x 198') 1-acre plot, you should require either 648 seedlings (for trees at the centre of each rectangle) or 700 seedlings (for trees at the corners of the rectangles).
6' X 7' = 42 sq. ft. per tree or 43,560/42=1037 trees per acre.
8' X 8' = 64 sq. ft. per tree or 43,560/64=680 trees per acre. (db)

2. Computers

wav is to mp3. a wav file is like a bmp file in that they are not compressed; whereas the jpeg and mp3 files are.

3. Philosophy and Science

Pluto is the only planet as yet not visited by a human-despatched probe. Proponents of a Pluto mission say now is the time to explore the ninth planet, largely because of its orbit characteristics. A year for Pluto, or one revolution around the sun, is the equivalent of 248 Earth years. Pluto reached its closest point to the sun in 1989 and is now moving farther away, leading its tenuous atmosphere to eventually freeze and fall to the surface. Once frozen, the surface is not likely to thaw until around 2230 as it swings back closer to the sun.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1080000/1080967.stm is a BBC article on the planned NASA mission.

4. Logic

The missing number is 4. The logic is as follows:
*"Seventy three" has 12 letters
*"Twelve" has 6 letters
*"Six" has 3 letters
*"Three" has 5 letters...
*and so the next number will be the number of letters in the word "five", which is 4

1. Forestry

A forester from Europe visiting me in the American midwest asked me, as we looked over a forest tract, the size of the tract. I told her it was a section. She was not able to understand this unit of measurement until she had mentally converted it to hectares. How many hectares would this section contain?
It may be helpful for you to know that:
one inch = 2.54 centimeters.
one hectare is one hectometer squared.
a section is 80 gunther's chains squared.
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2. Computers

What is this?

see Answer

3. Philosophy and Science

What genus is the tree in this picture?

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4. History

Born in 1783, this man became the national hero of five countries. What was his name?
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• Anne Lurie - 80 points for answers to questions 2, 3 and 4.
• Steven Skelton - 40 points for answers to questions 2 and 3.
• Zaheer Jhetam - 40 points for answers to questions 1 and 4.

1. Forestry

From one of many "standard" conversion sites, such as http://allmeasures.com/table.asp: *1 Gunther's chain = 20.1168 m
*Therefore, 80 Gunther's chains = 1,609.344 m^2
*Therefore, 80 Gunther's chains squared = 2,589,988 m^2
*Also, 1 hectare = 10,000 m^2
*Therefore, 1 section must be 258.9988 hectares
A confirmatory answer, from A Dictionary of Units http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm , and a number of other sites is that a section is 1 square mile, which equates to 258.9846 hectares.

2. Computers

Minesweeper! a standard, and somewhat addicting, game with many Windows installations
(My claim to fame is that my best time for an "expert" is 134 seconds.)

3. Philosophy and Science

This is the Eucalyptus tree with a koala bear in it -- I believe the genus is 'Eucalyptus', but there are some sub-species: Eucalyptus leucoxylon rosea (dwarf), Eucalyptus melliodora and Eucalyptus mundijongensis. Here's one web page with information on this and other Australian trees: http://www.zip.com.au/~elanora/treel.html

4. History

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
Simon Bolivar was one of South America's greatest generals. His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela (I count six countries here, not only five). He is called El Liberator (The Liberator) and the "George Washington of South America."
See: http://www.bolivarmo.com/history.htm

1. Forestry

What tree genus, native to forests in the eastern United States, is this?

        Leaves broad - not needle-like or scale-like

        Leaves compound with several leaflets - not simple

        Leaves opposite on the branch not alternately placed

        Leaves palmately compound not pinnately compound

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2. Computers

The BASIC computer program below opens a file with record length 36 bytes. It then writes 18 numbers into the file buffer in the 2 byte integer format (lsb+msb) and prints the buffer contents to the screen. What message is printed on the computer screen?

   DIM A$(20)

   OPEN "R",1,"temp.txt",36

   FIELD 1, 2 AS A$(1),2 AS A$(2),2 AS A$(3),2 AS A$(4),2 AS A$(5),2 AS A$(6),2 AS A$(7),2 AS A$(8),2 AS A$(9),2 AS A$(10),2 AS A$(11),2 AS A$(12),2 AS A$(13),2 AS A$(14),2 AS A$(15),2 AS A$(16),2 AS A$(17),2 AS A$(18)

   FIELD 1, 36 AS A99$

   RESTORE

   FOR Z=1 TO 18:READ X:LSET A$(Z)=MKI$(X):NEXT

   PRINT A99$

   CLOSE

   END

   DATA 25933,29298,8313,26691,26994,29811,24941,8307,28257

   DATA 8292,24904,28784,8313,25934,8311,25945,29281,8225

see Answer

3. Philosophy and Science

Where is this?

see Answer

4. Math

If this is the decimal notation system,
-7, -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . . ., 19
What is this?
111, 110, 111, 11, 10, 11, 1, 0, 1, 11, 10, 11, 111, 110, 111, . . ., 1101
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• Zaheer Jhetam - 80 points for answers to questions 1, 2 and 4.

1. Forestry

I believe the tree is certainly one of the Aesculus family - either the Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), the Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra), or the Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus octandra)
The genus as requested is Aesculus. The family is Hippocastanaceae. (db)

2. Computers

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

3. Philosophy and Science

Hong Kong.
This question was unanswered in War X.

4. Math

It is the same sequence, in Balanced Ternary Notation. Balanced Ternary Notation is base 3 notation with three different digits: 1, 0 and 1 (which denotes -1). Thus in this notation
*1011 represents 27+0-3-1=23, and
*111 represents -9+3-1=-7.
It is a remarkable fact that every integer, both positive and negative, has a unique representation in balanced ternary.
See:

• http://americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci01/Compsci2001-11.html
• http://www.cut-the-knot.com/blue/weight1.html
• http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/sol.cgi/logic/weighing/balance
• http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha12coins.html
• http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_2_16_98.html

1. Forestry

see Answer

2. Computers

XMF,abc,NIFF,SASL,RMF,SSS,DARMS,GUIDO
What type of data am I storing?
see Answer

3. Philosophy and Science

Between 4 and 6 am on Sunday morning, November 18, 2001, residents of the east coast of the United States will be able to see a meteor storm that is predicted to be the most spectacular within current lifetimes. Other similar storms were in November of 1799, and 1833 and 1966. In general such heavy meteor showers in November occur every 33 to 34 years. Why do they occur every 33 to 34 years?

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4. Math

A man is approaching the Washington Monument, 555 feet high, walking on level ground at the uniform rate of 5 feet per second. At what rate is he approaching the top of the monument when he is 100 feet from its base?
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• Zaheer Jhetam - 40 points for answers to questions 2 and 4.
• Steven Skelton - 20 points for the answer to question 1.
• Anne Lurie - 20 points for the answer to question 3.

1. Forestry

I think that's a pine tree, and a gymnosperm (meaning 'naked seed') here's a useful link for all yer gymnosperms:
http://www.conifers.org/

2. Computers

You are storing audio data. All of these are formats in which music or other audio data may be stored on computer.
http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/notationformats_e.html is a good link with detailed descriptions of these formats.

3. Philosophy and Science

The heaviest Leonid meteor showers occur when Earth passes through dust trails left in space by prior passages of the Tempel-Tuttle Comet, which enters the inner solar system every 33 years.
[Note: this question obviously deserves a much more complete answer, but I'm rather tired, because I watched the Leonid extravaganza this morning at 5:00 am EST. When I awoke at 4:45 am, I peeked outside to see if it was worth waking up my overworked husband; it took less than 30 seconds for me to decide! Also, I found it pretty cool that the only "audio" to accompany the wondrous video comprised crowing roosters & hooting barred owls!]

4. Math

*When the man is 100 ft from the base, the angle from the horizontal AB to the straight line AC "joining" him to the top will be arctan (555/100) = 79.786 degrees.
*Resolving his horizontal velocity of 5 ft/s into two mutually perpendicular components (one parallel to the line, and one perpendicular) yields the result that he is approaching the top at 5 cos (79.786) = 0.8866 ft/s.
(The velocity component perpendicular to this one would be 5 sin (79.786) = 4.921 ft/s)

1. Forestry

A recent timber cruise in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky of a forest consisting mostly of oaks, yellow poplar, hard maple and hickory trees showed about 50 trees per acre more than 12 inches in diameter breast high with an average of 200 board feet doyle scale per tree and an average of 92 square feet of basal area per acre. Since the state Division of Forestry recommends planting 800 to 1000 trees per acre and this stand only supported 50 sawlog size trees per acre, a local farmer said that the stand, as I described it to him, didn't seem to be very well stocked with trees. He was wrong. Please put the numbers above into perspective by explaining what numbers would be expected on an average stand and on a well stocked stand of this type and why there is such a discrepancy in number of trees per acre planted and number harvested.
see Answer

2. Computers

A computer magazine said that, due to fusion, dll hell would freeze over in whistler. What in the world did they mean?
see Answer

3. Philosophy and Science

Where is this?

see Answer

4. Literature

Who?

 

    I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,

    than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

 

    I have a great deal of company in my house;

    especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

 

    Some circumstantial evidence is very strong,

    as when you find a trout in the milk.

 

    I had three pieces of limestone on my desk,

    but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily,

    when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still,

    and threw them out the window in disgust.

 

    If a man does not keep pace with his companions,

    perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

 

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• Zaheer Jhetam - 80 points for answers to questions 2, 3 and 4
• Anne Lurie - 40 points for answers to questions 2 and 4

1. Forestry

A typical stand of this type in Kentucky would contain 20 or 30 trees more than 12 inches in diameter with an average merchantable volume of about 100 board feet doyle scale per tree. Average basal area would be about 40 or 50 square feet. The stand described in the question is a well stocked stand although slightly overstocked as indicated by the 92 square feet of basal area per acre. 80 square feet is more desirable in stocking. Number of trees per acre must be many times higher than number expected to be harvested both to account for mortality and because trees must be closer when smaller to fully stock the stand so that we can grow tall limb free trees rather than spreading limby trees.
This question was unanswered in War X.

2. Computers

In the decades-old Windows operating system design, DLL's are resources which are shared by various applications. As users install programs over time, this sharing has resulted in the so-called "DLL Hell" problem, which has plagued users of most releases of Windows, and is the primary source of Windows fragility.
A new version of Windows 2000 is code-named Whistler. Among the features of this operating system is a technology called Fusion, which is aimed at preventing DLL Hell. Recent Windows versions have included some forms of Fusion technology, providing a limited solution to DLL Hell. Microsoft's claim is that Whistler will introduce a version of Fusion which will finally provide users with the reliable and stable environment they've always wanted, without requiring third-party developers to manually change the way they create applications.

"Microsoft has been offering some tantalizing looks at the next version

of Windows 2000 (code-named Whistler). However, the company still isn't

discussing the most interesting features of this upcoming OS. Among

these features is a technology called Fusion, which might solve the

age-old DLL Hell problem.

DLL Hell has plagued Windows users since Windows 3.1's release and is

the number-one source of Windows fragility. As users install programs

over time, systems become more fragile. The decades-old Windows design,

which relies on shared resources (e.g., DLLs), causes this fragile

state. Various Windows versions, including Win2K, Windows Millennium

Edition (Windows ME), and Windows 98 Second Edition (Win98SE), have

added features to combat and resolve the problem. But Whistler, due for

release in mid-2001, will extend the Fusion technology to prevent DLL

Hell.

....................."

See: http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=9052
Whistler is now known as Windows XP.

3. Philosophy and Science

I believe that this could be a satellite image of the US state of Oregon.

4. Literature

Henry David Thoreau. Most of these quotes are from the work Walden, but at least one is from the Journal.
The eminently reasonable man who, quite rightfully, favored his thoughts over dusting "stuff" on his desk was Henry David Thoreau.
See: http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/thoreau/bio.html

1. Forestry

Which one of the following does not belong and why?

1. Allium tricoccum
2. Datura stramonium
3. Polygonatum biflorum
4. Cypripedium acaule
5. Viola rostrata
6. Mitchella repens
7. Asarum arifolium
8. Panax quinquefolium

see Answer

2. Computers

Which one of the following does not belong and why?

1. MOV AX,09
2. MOV DX,0117
3. INT 21
4. SUB AL,30
5. LET DX=6
6. JLE 0107
7. CMP AL,09
8. JG 0107

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3. Philosophy and Science

Which one of the following does not belong and why?

1. Limestone
2. Sandstone
3. Granite
4. Shale
5. Coal
6. Chalk
7. Chert

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4. Literature

Which one of the following does not belong and why?

1. Robert Penn Warren
2. Jesse Stuart
3. Janice Holt Giles
4. Harriet Simpson Arnow
5. Henry David Thoreau
6. Harry Caudill
7. Barbara Kingsolver
8. Wendell Berry
9. John Fox, Jr.

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• Zaheer Jhetam - 80 points for answers to questions 2, 3 and 4

1. Forestry

All grow in the woods except Datura stramonium, Jimsonweed.

        Allium tricoccum    ramp

        Datura stramonium   Jimsonweed

        Polygonatum biflorum  Solomon's seal

        Cypripedium acaule pink lady's slipper

        Viola rostrata    long-spurred violet

        Mitchella repens  partridge berry

        Asarum arifolium  little brown jug

        Panax quinquefolium ginseng

This question was unanswered in War X.

2. Computers

Except for number five (LET DX=6), all of the others are valid Assembly Language commands.

3. Philosophy and Science

Except for number three (GRANITE), which is an igneous rock, all of the others are forms of sedimentary rock.

4. Literature

Except for Thoreau, all of the other authors at some stage of their lives lived in Kentucky.

1. Forestry

As I am walking in a forest in the Appalachian mountains I see around me trees that are mostly scarlet oak, chestnut oak, hickory, and pine. As I continue walking I notice that the forest type has changed and I now see yellow poplar, beech, hemlock and maple. Have I been walking uphill or downhill? How do you know?
see Answer

2. Computers

I perform three logical operations on the following pairs of numbers with the results below:

  number pair    17, 42             42, 18

   operator      result             result

    1                0                 2

    2               59                58

    3               59                56

What logical operators am I using?
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3. Philosophy and Science

Which one of the following does not belong and why?

• ALDEBARAN
• ALNILAM
• ALNITAK
• BELLATRIX
• BETELGEUSE
• MEISSA
• MINTAKA
• RIGEL
• SAIPH

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4. Math

A man had nine children, all born at regular intervals, and the sum of the squares of their ages was equal to the square of his own. What was the age of each? Every age was an exact number of years greater than zero.
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• Zaheer Jhetam - 80 points for answers to questions 2,3 and 4

1. Forestry

Downhill. Scarlet oak, chestnut oak, hickory, and pine grow on drier sites and yellow poplar, beech, hemlock and maple grow on moist sites. Since moisture tends to flow downhill and accumulate in the soil on the lower slopes, the species present show I am walking from a drier to a more moist site, thus downhill.
This question was unanswered in War X.

2. Computers

You are using the binary AND, OR, and XOR, respectively.
17 is binary 10001, 42 is 101010, and 18 is 10010.
* 17 AND 42 results in 0, while 42 AND 18 gives 2
* 17 OR 42 results in 59, while 42 OR 18 gives 58
* 17 XOR 42 results in 59, while 42 XOR 18 gives 56

3. Philosophy and Science

I have two solutions which I believe are both correct. The answer you are more likely looking for: from the list of nine stars, ALDEBARAN is the only one found in the constellation TAURUS, while the others are all in ORION. My alternative answer: except for the name BELLATRIX, which has its origin in Latin, the other eight stars' names originate in Arabic.

4. Math

The children's ages are 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, and 26. The sum of squares is 2304, which is also the square of 48, which in turn is the man's age.

1. Forestry

What tree, native to forests in the eastern United States, is this?

        Leaves broad - not needle-like or scale-like

        Leaves simple - not compound with several leaflets

        Leaves opposite on the branch not alternately placed

        Leaves entire - not lobed

        Leaves oval shaped - not heart shaped

        Fruit - a shiny oval red drupe.

see Answer

2. Computers

It is based on a map of a cave in Kentucky
The magic word is "xyzzy"
"You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike"
It is a successor to Wumpus
What is it and what can you tell me about it?
see Answer

3. Philosophy and Science

Please identify these?

see Answer

4. History

How much time elapsed from the time the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan in World War II to the day the Japanese surrendered?
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• Nicole Graham - 40 points for the answers to questions 2 and 3.
• Zaheer Jhetam - 20 points for the answer to question 1.
• Matthew D Linden - 20 points for the answer to question 2.
• Anne Lurie - 20 points for the answer to question 4.

1. Forestry

The tree is the Flowering Dagwood (Cornus florida)

2. Computers

That's the original "Adventure Game" written in the mid-70's. Actually it was called only "ADVENT" because the operating system only let you use six letters to name a file. It was later written for the PC and called "Colossal Cave".
It was the first text-based adventure game on a computer

3. Philosophy and Science

Alkaid
Mizar
Alcor
Alioth
Megrez
Dubhe
Merak
AND
Phecda

4. History

7 days.
The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945. The Japanese surrendered on August 15, 1945.

1. Forestry

What tree is this?

Scientific name please.
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2. Computers

I have a Microsoft network consisting of three computers, two running Windows 3.11 and one running Windows 95. I decide to expand the network by adding two new computers running Windows 98 SE with the network cards, drivers, etc. already installed by the manufacturer. When I plug the new computers into the five port network hub used by the system and restart everything, I find that the two new computers can see each other on the network but cannot see the older computers and the older computers can still see each other but cannot see the new computers. What must I do to get all five computers to recognize each other on the network properly?
see Answer

3. Philosophy and Science

What animal is this?

Scientific name please.
see Answer

4. Literature

Who speaks these words?

Let me have men about me that are fat;

Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:

Yond ...... has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Specifically where, in what literary work?
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• Lisa E. Hayes - 80 points for the answers to questions 1, 3 and 4.

1. Forestry

Fagus grandifolia (American beech)

2. Computers

Install the netbeui protocol which is the networking protocol used by Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and by Windows 95 but usually not installed in later versions of Windows because they use other networking protocols.
This question was unanswered in War X.

3. Philosophy and Science

Bos grunniens (yak)
See:

• http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=051DD000
• http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/1996/10/4_4.html

4. Literature

These words are spoken by Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. (Act I, Scene II, ~ l. 194)
See:
http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/?loc=shakespeare.com

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