Is there a sentence to remember the value of the square root of three.

I was told

I wish I knew
the root of two

and I read of

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling

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Save The Last Dance For Me - Heidi Hauge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOCi107C-MQ

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(112 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I have started a thread Calculating square roots by hand.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=971

In the post

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=7326#p7326

the topic of calculating square roots is mentioned.

So here is a thread about calculating square roots by hand.

I found the following.

https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-a-Square-Root-by-Hand

i have had a quick look, hopefully I can study it in detail later and have a go.

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While looking for the 22! strawberries humour for the following post in another thread,

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=7324#p7324

I noticed the following post

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=1155#p1155

I like the supporting art,

he carrying a bottle,

she having a shoulder bag,

the streetlight

the shrubbery in the background and the shading on it

the plant below the window

the brickwork of the house

the various direcions of the shading lines on the car

no letterbox, is that the back door?

and no keyhole on the door

and what they are walking on is not shown as a straight line

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The 22! strawberries joke is in the following post.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=1155#p1155

Explained in the following post.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=1249#p1249

Over three years ago!

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

I posted this link sometime ago, in 2022, in another thread, asking where it took place and Alfred got it right and was, I think, surprised.

I’ve no idea why you thought so, William.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=2156#p2156

Because you added an exclamation mark after the name.

Not the same meaning of an exclamation mark that some of us shared some fun moments laughing about in relation to the 22! strawberries in whatever it was though!

I tried to post a link to the following video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp_b-095yPc

I included the title as on that web page.

It would not post.

Ultimately I had to remove the DE from the text.

Then it worked fine,

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=7320#p7320

The DE is the way Unicode does the German flag.

But it did not display as a flag here, just displaying the underlying encoding symbols, and the D, as does an emoji, caused this forum to not post it nor the rest of the text of the intended post.

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Nicole - Ein Bißchen Frieden | Germany | Winner of Eurovision 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp_b-095yPc

--

1982 End of the ESC in Harrogate with Nicole's multi-language reprise of "Ein bißchen Frieden"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJCNHfSy9Q

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I posted this link sometime ago, in 2022, in another thread, asking where it took place and Alfred got it right and was, I think, surprised.

In which country did this take place?

A beautiful song.

"De Astern" - Jürgen aus Siebenbürgen, Lisa Gärtner, Amazonas-Express und Gäste in Hermannstadt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkrbE-irO5E

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(112 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Bob Wills "San Antonio Rose" Live (circa 1940's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okNgLm4Ilt4

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New content only in this thread.

That linked article has a lot of information.

Thank you for the link.

I think what I saw was much shorther and thus much less detailed.

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Transcribed from the Affinity forum thread.

AWP >

... As a side note, I’ve always wondered why “questionnaires” has a double n but “millionaires” and “billionaires” only get one each, despite the fact that such people are wealthy enough to buy almost anything else that they want.


WJGO >

A possible explanation is that it is a similar situation to the following.

I read, sometime, somewhere, that words such as, for example, travelled, end in -led in American English yet in -lled in British English, with the exception in British English that the word paralleled has only a single letter l near the end, not a double letter l, because it already has a double letter l earlier within it.


AWP >

William wrote:

I read, sometime, somewhere

Perhaps here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ … sh_English

WJGO >

Perhaps best we continue this in the following thread in your forum

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=968

In an Affinity forum thread

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381191

then later in the same thread

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381566

then

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381589

then

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381597

I think that those designs are, or are very like, some that the Monotype Corporation in the United Kingdom had in their range in the 1960s.

The Monotype Corporation included revivals of a number of border designs from the Renaissance era. The Monotype Corporation also had a number of typefaces revived from the Renaissance era as well, such as Garamond.

The Greensleeves Project

https://greensleevesproject.uk/

At 81 seconds into this video, the link starts at 75 seconds to allow time before the image.

Part of Who Was Greensleeves? An Extraordinary Reconstruction of Her Clothes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVO0MLRrXQ&t=75s

How many sorts are there?

At least two.

I found a website about malware that says it is a push notification (of which topic I know nothing) and gave a list of things to do, the first being to clear bowser history and cookies.

I did that and restarted the computer and thus far it seems to be cleared.

Maybe the S in Windows 10S stopped it getting more embedded.

So, hoping it has gone, but proceeding wit caution.

I seem to remember that Windows has its own inbuilt
virus finder and remover.

Does anyone know how to start it please?

I did a hard sswitch off, the started up again, and I got the
view from the cavev picture so I wondered if the system had
fixed it.

But alas no, it has come back again.

For a while now, today, I keep getting a panel in the lower
right corner of the screen purporting to be from McAfee that
my virus protection expired on 23 June 2025 and that my
PC is affected and offering a paid subscription.

How can I stop this purported McAfee panel from
appearing please?


https://i.postimg.cc/SJMqt48d/screen.png

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Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWduP2F7r8

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Waltz Across Texas 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn04C52ClhU

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Tuba Skinny_I'm Blue and Lonesome (Georgia White_1938)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf_9uUhW6as

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Thank you.

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What are the meanings of

That's water under the bridge

and

There's been too much water under the bridge

I heard the second one over fifty years ago, but only once.

Do they mean the same or is there a difference?