Eric A. Meyer
I sequenced my hand and discovered this is what I had been dealt. I fib you not, G! #uno #math
Feb 5 at 1:23amMetatext
Show threadPaul CantrellFeb 5

@Meyerweb @blogdiva

Ah, yes, the well-known mathematical fact that 5 + 8 = 🚫

Show threadEric A. MeyerFeb 5

@inthehands @blogdiva I hear that’s the preferred notation for triskaidekaphobics.

Thank you for your recent dispatches, by the way.

Show threadDavidFeb 5

@Meyerweb @blogdiva @inthehands Also that 8 + 🚫 = 3, and 🚫 + 3 = 4, so 13 = -5 = 🚫 = 1, which is all true mod 6.

"... and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing." -- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_

Show threadPaul CantrellFeb 5

@david42 @Meyerweb @blogdiva
*slow clap*

I briefly wondered whether there was a modulus that would get us all the way to the 4…but where I merely wondered, you ventured.

Show threadKen ButlerFeb 5
@inthehands @Meyerweb @blogdiva and there was I thinking that 🚫 stood for 10, so the next number in the sequence is 10+3 = 13.
Show threadJonathan SnookFeb 5
@Meyerweb Instantly, I hear my kids complain that I mustn’t've shuffled the deck properly.