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Lazy Gecko

March 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment

Wisconsin

Frank Kaszar brings this wonderful, and expansive, sign from De Pere, Wisconsin. The sign assemblage is located right next to Lazy Gecko’s, a college hangout for Saint Norbert College. This sign stretches the lengths of rule #2, and is completely valid.

Mr. Kaszar sets a Road Sign Math with the very first sign to ever use a summation function!

\sum_{n=6}^{9}n + 2 = 32

This sign is on Reid Street in De Pere, Wisconsin. See sign on map!

Tags: Wisconsin

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 RanWiz // Apr 2, 2006 at 7:49 pm

    OK - time to try out the DEFENSE rules — let’s see if the numbers can be juggled into a formula that doesn’t use the summation:

    The numbers on the Gecko sign are:

    9, 6, 2 , 32

    Best I can do is this:

    sq rt ( sq rt (32 / 2)) * sq rt ( 9 ) = 6

    [tech score is 3, 3, 1, 1, 3 = 11 (+ elegance)]

    sq rt (sq rt ( 16 )) * 3 = 6

    2 * 3 = 6

    But that is a HIGHER score than the summation formula. Defense fails. =(

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