Dear Willem, As I already wrote to you in a personal e-mail: The rooms for the participants will be booked BY THE ORGANIZER. This way we WILL get the reduced...
Dear fellow calculators, Yesterday I tried to reserve for the Köhler hotel in Gießen. They are very tricky people!!!!! On the intenet the possibility for...
Hello, It is a great pleasure for me to announce the names of the calculators who have qualified for the Mental Calculation World Cup 2012. At first, I would...
Hello, many calculators have already asked... The participants of the Mental Calculation World Cup 2012 will be announced on Thursday. If you have sent an...
Hello, This is just a friendly reminder that the deadline for sending your application form for the 5th Mental Calculation World Cup (to be held 29 Sept-1 Oct...
Good afternoon Mr Garg, As you: I am looking forward to meet you. Please have some patience and we meet. And undoubtedly there will be a very interesting...
Dear Mr Garg, As you in the meantime will have understood, I am no mathematician, but an arithmetician. Unfortunately I did not study any number theory - see...
... From: A Garg To: MentalCalculation@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [Mental Calculation] decimal cube roots This is my...
    This is my understanding in point wise form (1) As long as only final answer are written, event name will include "Mental calculation" in name...
good afternoon Jerry, Thank you for your comment. I want to emphasize that neither it was nor it is to incite a rivalry between the mathematicians and the...
Hi folks, Â For what it's worth, I think the idea of a cube roots section is one which has already enlivened the group - and it hasn't even been applied yet....
Hello everybody, but first a message to Willem, before I try a last time to influence this debate. @Willem: You know, even if we are fighting in vain against...
Willem, I appreciate your intellectual comments, but continually trying to incite a rivalry between mathematicians and calculators is not productive. Many of...
Dear fellow calculators, Jan, I hope I can support you in your lonely struggle against the decimals. I fear it will be a lost struggle, as on forehand the...
Dear Ralf, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â In case of cube root, first digit takes 1 second to compute atleast for me. (one can be in boundary limit by writing second digit...
Ralf, I agree with Amit on this. The last digits are definitely harder and I liked the old scoring system we used in 2010. Otherwise, it will be tempting to...
Dear Robert F,    Each of us have our strengths as well as areas where others might be better than us. We can deal with each other more respectfully.  ...
Good afternoon Robert F, Unfortunately I do not understand what is meant with "My previous messages have not appeared here. Presumably they are too offensive?"...
Good morning/afternoon/evening, my friends. Â I have just been wading through my e-mail inbox, and there is indeed plenty to read about the matter of...
Dear Mr Bouman,     In the case of exact cube roots, solution time will significantly depend on if last digit of the number is 1, 3, 7 or 9. If last...
