Stevo985 Posted September 19, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted September 19, 2012 I got the 5 that Rev did, minus Cunningham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 19, 2012 Moderator Share Posted September 19, 2012 A quick web search suggests 11 English players have played for Real Madrid: England (11): Beckham, Cunningham, Johnson, Lindsey, Linney, McManaman, Owen, Stampher, Vickerstaff, Wallace and Woodgate. Apart from the obvious 5 I'm stumped on the rest! So in a question about 'the 5 Englishmen who played for Real Madrid' you could actually omit the 5 and 'only' give 6 people that weren't in the askers question Now that's something I'd like to do #thatllfuckim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I only got three. Forgot Woodgate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I got the obvious five (Laurie Cunningham, Steve McMananman, David Beckham, Michael Owen & Jonathan Woodgate. I presume all of the others are from the early days of Real Madrid as a club? Yeah - it looks like they all played before 1920 (when the club was simply Madrid FC). I'd still say they count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 5, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 5, 2012 If you follow the following process for any starting number * write it out in English (e.g. 123 => "one hundred twenty three") * count the number of letters (e.g. 123 => 21) * repeat it will eventually loop at 4 => four => 4... 123 => 21 => 9 => 4 => 4 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 I only got three. Forgot Woodgate. Question: Has there ever been a player who had a worse start to a new club career than Woodgate at RM? 13 months injured before making his debut then when finally getting on the pitch notching an OG and a red card. Gotta take some beating that. (btw I got 4, Mcmanaman, Beckham, Owen & Woodgate). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 No, im pretty sure that will go down as the worse Debut ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 5, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 5, 2012 If you follow the following process for any starting number * write it out in English (e.g. 123 => "one hundred twenty three") * count the number of letters (e.g. 123 => 21) * repeat it will eventually loop at 4 => four => 4... 123 => 21 => 9 => 4 => 4 ... It even works if you DO write it out in English (rather than American) - one hundred AND twenty three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 If you follow the following process for any starting number * write it out in English (e.g. 123 => "one hundred twenty three") * count the number of letters (e.g. 123 => 21) * repeat it will eventually loop at 4 => four => 4... 123 => 21 => 9 => 4 => 4 ... It even works if you DO write it out in English (rather than American) - one hundred AND twenty three. It probably works in most languages but you might get stuck at a different number than 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 5, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 5, 2012 If you follow the following process for any starting number * write it out in English (e.g. 123 => "one hundred twenty three") * count the number of letters (e.g. 123 => 21) * repeat it will eventually loop at 4 => four => 4... 123 => 21 => 9 => 4 => 4 ... It even works if you DO write it out in English (rather than American) - one hundred AND twenty three. It probably works in most languages but you might get stuck at a different number than 4 German loops at 4 as well. However, I think French gives the loop: 6-3-5-4, 6-3-5-4, 6-3-5-4... etc. (unless I've got something wrong, which is quite possible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 If you follow the following process for any starting number * write it out in English (e.g. 123 => "one hundred twenty three") * count the number of letters (e.g. 123 => 21) * repeat it will eventually loop at 4 => four => 4... 123 => 21 => 9 => 4 => 4 ... It even works if you DO write it out in English (rather than American) - one hundred AND twenty three. It probably works in most languages but you might get stuck at a different number than 4 German loops at 4 as well. However, I think French gives the loop: 6-3-5-4, 6-3-5-4, 6-3-5-4... etc. (unless I've got something wrong, which is quite possible). I'm still trying to figure out how to do this for Chinese. Edit: Counting the number of strokes might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 5, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 5, 2012 If you follow the following process for any starting number * write it out in English (e.g. 123 => "one hundred twenty three") * count the number of letters (e.g. 123 => 21) * repeat it will eventually loop at 4 => four => 4... 123 => 21 => 9 => 4 => 4 ... It even works if you DO write it out in English (rather than American) - one hundred AND twenty three. It probably works in most languages but you might get stuck at a different number than 4 German loops at 4 as well. However, I think French gives the loop: 6-3-5-4, 6-3-5-4, 6-3-5-4... etc. (unless I've got something wrong, which is quite possible). I'm still trying to figure out how to do this for Chinese. Are there accepted standard English phonetic versions of Chinese pictograms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 There are, Mike - the Wade-Giles (rarely used these days) and Pinyin systems. You're right, it could work, and so might the stroke-counting method. It's dinner time now, will do this after that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Tried counting the number of strokes (instead of the number of letters). The results seem to be slightly more varied than the "loop at four" result for English, although not by much. The characters for 1, 2 and 3 all have 1, 2 and 3 strokes each respectively. That said, the only character (in the entire Chinese language) I can think of that has just one stroke is the character for "1", so I think we'll take that out of the equation. The character for "4" has 5 strokes, while the character for "5" has 4. So, in similar fashion to the French result, if one were to arrive eventually at one of these two numbers, he/she would enter into an indefinite loop between "4" and "5." The character for "6" has 4 strokes, thus the eventual result would be the 4-5 loop. Characters for numbers 7-10 all have, quite incredibly, just 2 strokes each, which would result in a loop at "2". In conclusion, I think it's safe to say that the "2" loop is probably the most common result, followed by the 4-5 dual number loop. 1 is by far the rarest result, as it can only be arrived at if one starts from the character for "1" itself. There are thus 3 possible results in all, involving a total of 4 numbers, although 1 result can effectively be discounted due to the special circumstances required to derive it. All this talk about strokes must sound really foreign to you all, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 6, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2012 They haven't released a decent album in a number of years, have they? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blunther Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 111,111 x 111,111 = 12,345,654,321 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 222,222 x 222,222 = 49,382,617,284 In case someone wondered about that too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 They haven't released a decent album in a number of years, have they? oh ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 8, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2012 They haven't released a decent album in a number of years, have they? Who? The Strokes? Or Loop? The new Wade-Giles album should be good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 8, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2012 Wade & Giles left The Wade-Giles System? I had not heard that. That's a promising development: as everyone knows, after three exceptional albums to start their recording career, the quality steadily declined. I always said it was the non-Wade/Giles members who were holding that band back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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