Tiddle me this and Tiddle me that.

Having her times where she does not post, then weeks where she makes you pee yourself laughing, this weeks guest blogger is Tiddles, also known as Tracey(Shy), madness is her middle name and her blog (well one of them)

Thanks from the intro, now onto something all about me! Hhhhmmm ok lost for words, I am a Guest blogger seems so easy, I can blog about whatever I want, no limits so sure I would jump at it but now I am lost for words, have nothing to say.
Hi I am Tiddles, Tracey, Shy, I write and run about a zillion blogs, I am a blog-o-holic.
Ummm I am an Aussie? I am boring, though some think I am funny, for that you need to check out some of my blogs, I am a happily divorced and love my kid.
Errrr this is harder then I thought, guest blogging they say.
Well go check out my blogs, I really have nothing to say, you wait and see tomorrow I will have something to say and chew your ear off, apparently One2day said I can email them things whenever I like and they will post it, cool huh? why not you try it too.
So will you be next weeks blogger?

Magnets

HELP, hear my cry.
If you have been following this blog you will see I have a guest blogger every week, you only need to write 1 blog for the week (more if you like totally up to you) for that week I will post your picture and link in the left of my blog. Already I am getting a good amount of traffic and in time it will only grow. If you would like to be a guest blogger for the week feel free to email me on one2day.day@gmail.com. Thank you
With all that said here is MyUtopia from Sand of Thyme
it is a well known fact he is a nutter so once again enjoy your stay Ut, readers even though he is a nutter and he is new to the blogging world he is doing well, go leave him a message tell him I sent you.

They're at it again, I don't know who they are but they're at it..... before you go to work tomorrow, it's vital, vital you check your car. What for? for MAGNETS!!
I mean how do they know that this is the day that your going to be late for work.... even just by a few minutes? What is it that gives them advance warning that you'll be just enough late so they can get round there while you sleep and fit them?.. Ok I know what your thinking, he's gone nuts... but it's true, they somehow know you'll be late for work, THEY get to your car and fit these high powered magnets, that force every car in front of you to drive at exactly 10mph below the speed limit. You think I'm crazy.... don't you,well OK, explain this to me, why is it on a 40 minute drive to work (that usually only takes 25 minutes) did every single car that was in front of me drive well below the speed limit, in perfect driving conditions?
There was a long stretch of road, nothing in front for miles, no junctions, clear visibility, was still dawn but bright enough, yet on a 40 mph stretch with no residential areas for miles (not unless you class the local bovine population as residents) was this guy doing 30?
I know , I know, I know, you're thinking, it's was someone elderley, it was someone of the female persuasion, nope it was some kid in his very, very, very early twenties, driving like his gran...... This I think adds further weight to my magnet theory!
Quick, this is an emergency, we need the Stig, or Clarkson anyone but James May (Captain Slow).

Growing Pains

This weeks Guest blogger has no photo yet **hint hint** This person is amazing! They have enriched and encouraged me at stages of my life when I thought there was no hope.
Sands of Thyme is only new to the blogging world, they are doing amazing and they even had time to write this for me. Go visit him and tell him I sent you.

Growing Pains

Oh to be a child again, Oscar Wilde may have had something when he said that "youth was wasted on the young". Today I got home feeling tired and not that I think of this a lot but wondering what it'd be like to go back in time and live even just one day as myself back when I was a child. Not to do anything differently, just play and have fun and not to know what it's like to pay a bill or worry about work and stuff. Nothing in particular made me think of this, just one of those random thoughts that creeps into my head and usually runs away in terror at what it finds in there.

This time however it settled down and stayed a little while.

I wonder which part of my life I'd like to go to, the time of my life back in Primary School, when I'd sometimes pretend to be sick so I could stay at home and get under my mothers feet while she did house work and I'd loaf around in my pyjamas watching cartoons and watch Television intended for a much younger audience than me (usually Bagpuss or Mr Benn), or my more rebelous teens when I didn't know what I wanted to do but when I did know, I would decide to do it and no-one else.

Well, don't tell the boss, but...... I reckon in memory of Oliver Postgate who died one month ago on the 8th of December I'm going to buy a pair of pyjamas, a copy of the complete Bagpuss series and ring in sick Monday morning and sit at home all day watching Bagpuss.

What is One?

This weeks guest blogger is Gary from GaryJones


As it's the 1^st of the 1^st I thought I'd share some facts about the number 1. The following have been pulled from three different resources.

• 1 is the the first natural number, the first square number, the first cube number, the different between two consecutive numbers and the multiplicative identity (when you multiply a number by 1 the number does not change).


• 1 is not a prime number; prime numbers have exactly two distinct factors.


• An ace is number one in playing cards. French playing cards are marked '1' instead of 'A'.


• A cyclops is a creature with one eye and a dromedary is a camel with only one hump.


• There is only one of lots of things. There is only one planet Earth, there is only one Atlantic Ocean and there is only one you. All of these are unique.


• Words beginning with uni- often mean there is one of something. For example, unicycles have one wheel and unicorns have one horn. Unisex means the two sexes appearing as one because they are indistinguishable by hair or clothing.


• The letters A, B, C, D, E, M, T, U, V, W and Y all have one line of symmetry.


• The international dialling code for the USA and Canada is 01.


• Mathematicians define a 'sphere' as the surface of a sphere, not a solid ball, so a sphere has 2 sides: the outside and the inside. However, there are also 1-sided surfaces!


• A Möbius strip has one edge and one surface. It is easy to make by taking a long strip of paper, giving it one twist and joining together the ends. Ask one of your friends to colour one side of the strip red and the other side green. This turns out to be impossible because the strip has only one side.


• Mono- can also mean that there is one of something. A monocle is an eyeglass with only one lens, and a monorail is a railway where the track consists of a single rail. Monochrome means using only one colour, like a black-and-white photograph. Chemical names often include mono-; for example carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas whose molecules have only one atom of oxygen.


• Hydrogen has the atomic number 1.


• Why 1=0! (pronounced "zero factorial")? Because 4! = 4x3x2x1 and 3! = 3x2x1. Therefore 4! = 4x3! In the same way 3! = 3x2! and 2! = 2x1! So it follows that 1! = 1x0! Therefore 0! must be equal to 1 or 1! would be 0... And so 2! would be zero and then 3! and so on.


• January has always been month 1 in Gregorian and Julian Calendars. Before around 713 BC however, March was the first month in the Roman calendar.


• Benford's law states that in a huge assortment of number sequences - in listings, tables of statistics, random samples from a day's stock quotations, a tournament's tennis scores, the populations of towns, electricity bills in the Solomon Islands, and much more, the digit 1 tends to occur with probability ~30%, much greater than the expected 11.1% (i.e., one digit out of 9). Dr. Nigrini gained recognition by applying a system he devised based on Benford's Law to some fraud cases in Brooklyn. The idea underlying his system is that if the numbers in a set of data like a tax return more or less match the frequencies and ratios predicted by Benford's Law, the data are probably honest. But if a graph of such numbers is markedly different from the one predicted by Benford's Law, he said, "I think I'd call someone in for a detailed audit".


• During any police lineup the suspects wear nos. 2 through 9 because it is considered too suggestive to make anyone display the no. 1!


• 1 symbolizes the essence of all phenomena, which is a single unity, before being divided. It represents also the contrast between essence and existence; the enduring and the ephemeral; the unity in diversity (one/many). According to Hopper, the first advance towards counting is with the use of words for one and for many, the differentiation from the self from the group. We still say 'numero uno' to speak of ourselves.


• "Taiji" (also termed as "Dayi" or "Taiyi"), in the Mystical Numbers of Taoism, represents the ONE, the Ultimate, the Order. The martial art known as "Taijiquan" based its movement's philosophies upon the notion of Taiji.


• In the English language, there is a word with just ONE vowel which occurs 6 times: indivisibility.


• The roots of the word one (un-, sim-) are hidden in the following words: inch, onion, ounce, primal, primrose, prince, simple, single, simulate, unanimous, unicorn, uniform, unify, union, unique, unit, universe; alone, any, lonely, only, none. In French: ensemble, oignon, premier, printemps, sanglier, semblable, sincère.

What interesting facts, mathematical or otherwise do you know that involve the number 1?