google calculation & littlehampton

Just read this, about google IPO:

The amount of the $2.7 billion offering contains a "subtlety: The exact offering, $2,718,281,828, is the product of "e" and $1 billion, where "e" is the base of the natural logarithm.

The author concluded that even if the two friends have now become world's fortune 500 something, they are still geeks... well, they are bloody optimistics too - it mean that they expect their profit to increase exponentially too ...


Optimistic I was when we all moved to littlehampton this week-end. Well, actually nobody knew where we were going : we just decided to head down to the south to make the best out of the shining sun, looking for a beach with sand - JS suggested that we should go to littlehampton - there was a yellow area on the map - probably meaning sand ....

We eventually spent the afternoon running statistics:
10% of space available
20% of petrol in the sea
30% of people who have brought half of their house with them
Kids fighting with their parents 40% of the time
50% of people with tattoos (including grannies, kids and babies)
Kids fighting with their parents 60% of the time
70% of overweight parents
80% of overweight kids
90% who don't move a single muscle the whole afternoon
100% laugh

I thought I should display this photo I took just before we left. It just summarize the day : The siren from LittleHampton