The Twelve Dels of Christmas: My Festive Tales from Life and Only Fools

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In any case, the song most of us are familiar with today comes from an English composer named Frederic Austin; in 1909, he set the melody and lyrics (including changing “colly” to “calling”) and added as his own flourish, the drawn-out cadence of “five go-old rings.” The song is not a coded primer on Christianity Actually there is a fundamental flaw in this, misunderstood by many and unfortunately spread by the masses at the festive season in the form of a 'fun puzzle' Awesome, i encountered this problem in haven of all places and i came up with the long way of figuring it out (no-one told me it) but a friend of mine used the method above (or something similar), she told me if you picture it, it forms like a triangle and i just thought to myself i'm not even going there i was bewildered but fascinated but since then i have been looking at different maths problems as the whole magic of maths has got to me lol.

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Hi Fill. According to this article, "[The Epiphany] falls on 6 January or, in many countries, on the Sunday that falls between 2 January and 8 January." The 12 Days of Christmas” is also a Christmas carol in which the singer brags about all the cool gifts they received from their “true love” during the 12 days of Christmas. Each verse builds on the previous one, serving as a really effective way to annoy family members on road trips. The lyrics to “The 12 Days of Christmas” have changed over the years This was not originally a Catholic song, no matter what you hear on the Internet. … Neutral reference books say this is nonsense. If there was such a catechism device, a secret code, it was derived from the original secular song. It’s a derivative, not the source.I ended up graphing the result in three dimensions. Clearly the numbers [(1) + (2+1) + (3+2+1). . .] formed one corner of a cube (a specific kind of pyramid), and I thought at first that if I put four corners together the graphed numbers represented one-fourth the volume of the whole cube, but it turned out that there was an empty space inside the cube, and the volume of the graphed numbers was about one-sixth the volume of the whole cube. But it wasn’t exact, and a fudge factor was necessary. In the end, this formula turned out to be the answer, where x is the number of days: This is incredible. I will enjoy using it with my gifted/talented students. But first I will have to send it by my husband to show me all the ins and outs of it. Thanks for doing it. First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead. It seems even more reasonable, relatively speaking, when you consider that if you wanted to burn off your meal by just singing its namesake tune, you’d have to make it all the way through the song roughly 300 times — about 17.5 hours of caroling. And that’s a gift I doubt anyone would welcome. The Twelfth Night, often celebrated on the night of Jan. 5, is considered the end of the Christmas season, before the Epiphany the following day. ­The Twelfth Night was a time for feasting in England (partly inspired by Shakespeare's play of the same name) in centuries past. Some cultures, like the French and Spanish, celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany with a king cake, a coffee cake with purple, green and yellow icing to commemorate the visit by the magi to the Christ child. In western cultures, the king cake is associated with Mardi Gras, and the season of Carnival [source: Burnett]. Churches also vary in their celebration of the Epiphany; some Protestant churches celebrate it for an entire season, lasting until the season of Lent, while many Catholics celebrate it as a single day.

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If you ate all of the birds in one day, including the pheasant pie, but not including all the trimmings for the other dishes, and subtracted the energy you expended milking, dancing, leaping, and drumming, you’d have consumed 2,384 net calories. That’s really not bad, considering the average American Thanksgiving dinner adds up to about 4,500 calories. IntMath Newsletter - 12 Days, Calculus concepts, Why is math hard? and ADD In this Newsletter 1. The Twelve Days of Christmas - How Many Presents? 2. Best... Let's take (for example) the sum of the first 4 triangular numbers and represent it as a triangle. Each row in the triangle (on the left, below) adds to a triangular number and the sum of the whole triangle is the sum of the first 4 triangular numbers. Let's now re-arrange the first triangle in 2 different ways, then add the result, in respective positions. (My total is 3 times what I really need. I will divide by 3 later to cater for this). I love David Jason for Only Fools and also Touch of Frost! I haven't really followed him with anything else but I know he's a proper gent and this comes out in this book! It was interesting to read about how he began he career in theatres as I didn't know this. very cool, not sure if your students are at a level where they know about taylor series or combinatorics, but the number of presents from n days of giving is also the n'th coefficient in the taylor expansion of:

While sects of Christianity celebrate the 12 days of Christmas differently, certain ones, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, consider the Epiphany to be the most important day of the Christmas season. Some exchange gifts on each of the 12 days instead of only on Christmas day. Our aim is to produce a formula that will allow us to find any tetrahedral number. Here's one of the possible ways of doing this. will take a while, of course, but the first step was to determine the level of detail. Making all 364 gifts in total would take a lot of time, and even just making the 78 gifts of the last verse will be a […]

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Well, no, I think that Charlotte is technically correct, and the singer did actually receive only 78 gifts. The repetition is poetic, not legally accurate. But that's over-thinking it. The math problem is based on "what if?" the apparent sequence were actually what was intended. It's an interesting sequence, even though it would seem to be one that doesn't often come up in ordinary life (hence my inability to find it in my math textbook). Getting the solution was work, but it was fun. While these verses are what most of us associate with the "Twelve Days of Christmas," the phrase refers to an actual 12-day period. The 12 days of Christmas, in fa­ct, are the days from Dec. 25, celebrated as the birth of Jesus Christ, to the Epiphany, celebrated on Jan. 6 as the day when the manifestation of Christ's glory was realized. Others have attempted to interpret the 12 Days of Christmas via food, with dishes like deviled eggs representing geese a-laying and so on. Then there’s the “12 Days of Christmas diet,” which the Atlantic’s Olga Khazan attempted in 2013. She calculated the calories in a serving of each bird mentioned in the song and offset them with the calories burned by the various activities (milking, leaping, etc.). Turns out all that poultry is somehow less indulgent than the typical American holiday meal. She sums up: However, the biggest struggle for me was that it felt that it was just a re-hash of prior books. I can’t say that it was particularly “festive”, with lots of the authors stories happening outside of Christmas. I agree: the pear tree should be counted as a separate gift. So should the geese eggs, the pool for the swans, the cows (or goats) for the maids, the drums for the drummers and the pipes for the pipers.

Billed as a book that documents festive tales from his various accomplishments throughout the years, including (of course) Only Fools and Horses.