22 March
2022
20 March
2022
From the bartender’s corner – Daisy Cutter Martini
Difford’s Guide claims the name originates from the cricketing term. In cricket, a ball that bounces more than once or rolls before reaching the batsman is called a Daisy Cutter. I have no idea what that has got to do with the drink.
This vodka, dry vermouth, elderflower liqueur and yellow chartreuse garnished with some slapped mint leaves.
20 March
2022
Nice day for a motorbike ride
20 March
2022
Joined the Chalupa group for a coffee after a few months
20 March
2022
Puzzle #2 (logic) from my India trip
This puzzle also comes courtesy my eldest nephew.
There are 101 boxes. A girl marked them “1”, “2”, “3”…. all the way to “101”. She had two colored pens to mark the boxes with – red and blue. And she used both of them. Only one color was used for any one box. We know that the total number of blue boxes is the same as the highest numbered blue color marked box. And to that if you add twice the lowest numbered red color marked box, you will get the total number of boxes.
The question is, how many blue and red boxes were there?
20 March
2022
Crisp spring morning in Atlanta
17 March
2022
Puzzle #1 (math) from my India trip
This was given to me by my elder nephew. I was able to solve it but in the process I learnt a new concept in numbers called partition number. My nephew taught me a method of how to get to the partition number for a number. He claimed it is called the Chinese method.
Here is the puzzle:
In the following expression, once expanded, what is the coefficient of x9 ?
(1+x)(1+x2)(1+x3)(1+x4)(1+x5)….(1+x100)
13 March
2022
Run in Durgapur
7 March
2022
Quick run in nice, cool, “springy” Atlanta
6 March
2022
