The father of the “little white sign” brings another one to Road Sign Math. David Slaeunwhite submits this sign from rural Pennsylvania that shows wonderful creativity as well as the native farming background of Pennsylvania.
Slauenwhite does something very creative in the math on this sign, and something that has never been done on Road Sign Math before. He needed a 1 to get from 1,009 to 1,010 and his solution is wonderful.
1,009 + 10 ^ {70-70} = 1,010
This sign is found on the south-side of Liberty, Pennsylvania, on the old US 15 that was renamed to SR 2005 in the 1990’s. The GPS coordinates for this sign are approximately N41 33 17.0 W77 05 48.0. See sign on map!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Randy Weiss // Nov 9, 2005 at 7:58 am
Kudos to DS for thinking of it. But now it is out in the open, I feel it should be banned.
2 Road Sign Math // Nov 10, 2005 at 5:46 am
I don’t see how such a mathematically valid operation could be removed from the game. Past modifications to the rules have always been focused on areas where definition lacked or the math was weak. Can a point be made that x^0 = 1 is weak math?
3 Randy Weiss // Nov 10, 2005 at 8:01 pm
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