Fun Fact

[hobartmariner]

TIL "time immemorial" is legally defined in English law to be any time before the reign of Richard I. "In English law, time immemorial ends and legal memory begins at 1189 A.D."

[slug]

ok heres my fun fact, hobart as a math head you may appreciate this. Background is that basil got a train set from ikea and I was trying to make a track that used every single piece. but I couldn't do it. and it turns out its because they only gave us 3 Y-splitting pieces and you can use the handshake theorem to prove that its impossible to do that unless you have an even number of them.

[hobartmariner]

Lol. That reminds me I skimmed through the Passenger before reading to see if any math stuff would annoy the shit out of me and there was only one thing, a character is labeled a "spectral operator" I'm pretty sure just because it sounds cool...

[almielag]

ok heres my fun fact, hobart as a math head you may appreciate this. Background is that basil got a train set from ikea and I was trying to make a track that used every single piece. but I couldn't do it. and it turns out its because they only gave us 3 Y-splitting pieces and you can use the handshake theorem to prove that its impossible to do that unless you have an even number of them.

[almielag]

TIL "time immemorial" is legally defined in English law to be any time before the reign of Richard I. "In English law, time immemorial ends and legal memory begins at 1189 A.D."

I just learned this recently myself, probably in "the history of english podcast" (https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/), which has just reached the Elizabethan period with episode 163