Eddington numbers

Ekul Namsob said:

What's yours?

18, at least since I got a bike computer... but that's last November.

R

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Namsob (') said:

What's yours?

According to Peter Scandrett's site, "The physicist Arthur Eddington was
something of a numerologist in later life, as well as a keen cyclist. He
kept a note of something he called his Eddington Number (E), where E =
the highest number of days in your life on which you have cycled more
than E miles. When he died, his E was 87."

I'm trying to work mine out now, I suspect it's somewhere between 15 and
20 but realise that, until I bought a cycle computer, I never really had
any inkling as to how far I was travelling.

Mine must be in the upper sixties, but I don't keep good enough records to
be sure. The number of times I've cycled over one hundred miles in a day
can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, which shames me. I
definitely haven't done seventy, seventy mile days. But I've done an awful
lot more than sixty, sixty mile days - probably in hundreds.

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Ekul Namsob said:

What's yours?

I have not got accurate figures, but I would guess about 40. (The
distance from my flat to Bath city center and back).

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Namsob (') said:

What's yours?

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Mine must be in the upper sixties, but I don't keep good enough records to
be sure. The number of times I've cycled over one hundred miles in a day
can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, which shames me. I
definitely haven't done seventy, seventy mile days. But I've done an awful
lot more than sixty, sixty mile days - probably in hundreds.

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Mine is also in the sixties but have not been meticulous enough in record
keeping to say for certain where in the 60 - 70 range my E number is -
probably closer to 60 than 70..

I have eight imperial centuries, 50% of them done this year, under my belt
which is good enough for me but pales into insignificance when compared
with the likes of Steven Abraham an Audax stalwart who's done around 9600
miles in 43 rides or a less obsessive rider like Andrew Southworth who
occasionally surfaces here with 25 rides none of which are less than 200km.

Ekul Namsob wrote on 04/06/2007 21:00:

Quoted message said:

What's yours?

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to work mine out now, I suspect it's somewhere between 15 and
20 but realise that, until I bought a cycle computer, I never really had
any inkling as to how far I was travelling.

It's just been pointed out to me that mine is now 15. Hurrah!

By the way, I got that quote from another website (now disappeared,
goodness knows what it was) which is why it's in italics. But it's on
the internet, so it must be true (and if it's not, the number is still
relevant - and I may as well attribute it to a physicist as a physics
graduate myself :-)

Regards

Peter

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Simon Brooke said:

.. The number of times I've cycled over one hundred miles in a day
can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, which shames me.

You live in Scotland, where there be mountains. I like to kid myself
that I would have done more long rides if I lived "darn sarf" but TBH,
I'd rather do shorter rides up and down Scottish glens anyway!
I bet you've done a lot more ascending on your 60 milers than many of
the folk logging centuries...

Cheers,
W.

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Simon Brooke said:

.. The number of times I've cycled over one hundred miles in a day
can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, which shames me.

You live in Scotland, where there be mountains. I like to kid myself
that I would have done more long rides if I lived "darn sarf" but TBH,
I'd rather do shorter rides up and down Scottish glens anyway!
I bet you've done a lot more ascending on your 60 milers than many of
the folk logging centuries...

Yes there be mountains, but the roads are generally constructed to go
round them, rather than over. You should try the North Downs at some
point. The climbs may not be terribly high but they can be vicious,
and there are a lot of them.

...d

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Simon Brooke said:

.. The number of times I've cycled over one hundred miles in a day
can still be counted on the fingers of one hand, which shames me.

You live in Scotland, where there be mountains. I like to kid myself
that I would have done more long rides if I lived "darn sarf" but TBH,
I'd rather do shorter rides up and down Scottish glens anyway!
I bet you've done a lot more ascending on your 60 milers than many of
the folk logging centuries...

The ride round the Isle of Wight is 64 miles and 4,300 ft of climbing
according to Sanoodi.

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Tony

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