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Understanding Equalisation

Can anyone explain equalisation? If I buy an accumulating tracker fund for £100 and sell it for £110, the end-of-year tax voucher might say: Interest £1, Equalisation £4. How much counts towards... ...
11:08 Fri 23rd Aug 20242 answers, last by ToraToraTora 11:20 Fri 23rd Aug 2024
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Minimum Number Of Dances?

We've been invited to a ballroom dance in ten months' time. What is the minimum number of dances to learn to participate most of the time? Can we get away with just two: one in common time and one... ...
22:01 Sun 05th Nov 202310 answers, last by Old_Geezer 08:51 Mon 06th Nov 2023
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Therefore, Jew

"The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath... Therefore, Jew, though justice be thy plea, consider this: that in the course of justice... ...
10:48 Tue 24th Oct 202367 answers, last by andy-hughes 16:06 Wed 25th Oct 2023
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Gravitational Anomalies

Is there an archive of answerbank questions? I'd like to see a question I asked some years ago about the possibility that dark energy and dark matter could be explained away by modifying the way that...
15:43 Sat 12th Aug 202315 answers, last by Rev. Green 12:03 Sun 13th Aug 2023
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What Gravity Is Within A Shell Of Matter?

It is straightforward to show, using the inverse-square law, that a uniform shell of matter produces no gravitational force in the space within it. However, the inverse-square law assumes Newtonian...
09:19 Mon 15th May 20232 answers, last by Rev. Green 11:18 Mon 15th May 2023
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Are Black Holes Hollow?

If we drop a lamp into a black hole, the lamp might reach the event horizon without being crushed. We would see the lamp becoming redder, but if we could observe longer and longer radio waves, it...
13:48 Sun 14th May 202310 answers, last by Hymie 11:36 Mon 15th May 2023
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Fried Eggs, "In The Clouds"

An egg cooked "sunny side up" produces an overcooked yolk if it is cooked long enough for the albumen to set. "Easy over" rarely produces an acceptable result. Is there a name for the way of frying an...
20:03 Fri 24th Feb 202318 answers, last by Vagus 15:48 Sat 25th Feb 2023
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Gravel Road Ridges

Ridges sometimes form across gravel roads when there is sufficient traffic. The roads are basically flat with a sprinkling of small stones. The stones group together into bands, about 15cm apart,...
19:49 Fri 24th Feb 20234 answers, last by sddsddean 20:28 Fri 24th Feb 2023
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Telephoto Glasses

My optician says that spectacles cannot correct the condition where one eye sees a smaller image than the other. Is it possible to obtain a slight wide-angle lens for one eye, or a slight telephoto...
19:42 Fri 24th Feb 20231 answer, last by Buenchico 19:53 Fri 24th Feb 2023
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Binary Addition

What is the name of numbers whose binary codes are minimally different? I'd like to Neeva them to see if they have an addition algorithm. The numbers 1 to 9 are coded 1, 11, 10, 110, 111, 101, 100,...
09:32 Mon 16th Jan 20236 answers, last by Canary42 14:12 Mon 16th Jan 2023
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Post-Strike Pay

After I've been on strike, should I expect my employer to accept me back at the same level of pay, even though I have proved to be unreliable?...
08:21 Wed 21st Dec 20229 answers, last by barry1010 10:39 Wed 21st Dec 2022
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Entropy Never Falls

Entropy does not fall, so what is wrong with the following: In a google years, most matter, black holes etc. will have evaporated and the Universe will 'soon' become a sea of photons. Although it is...
16:06 Tue 06th Dec 20224 answers, last by Old_Geezer 19:58 Tue 06th Dec 2022
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Black Hole Squarks

When two black holes collide they emit a "squark" of gravitational waves. Why? There is conservation of mass, centre of mass, and angular momentum. I assume that tidal disturbance transfers angular...
20:27 Wed 09th Nov 202218 answers, last by Atheist 11:12 Thu 10th Nov 2022
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No Gravity From Photons

A photon has energy. Why does it not generate a gravitational field? Energy = mass....
22:12 Tue 08th Nov 202247 answers, last by Zacs-Master 15:51 Fri 11th Nov 2022
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Design Of The Universe

If you had designed the Universe, would you have designed this one?
08:24 Mon 29th Aug 202233 answers, last by topas 19:46 Wed 28th Sep 2022
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Parasexual

We used to have just a few genders, then LGB, then LGBT. Recently, I heard something like LGBTQ+. Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions? How about 'parasexuals'?
10:41 Mon 25th Jul 202243 answers, last by Canary42 19:49 Tue 26th Jul 2022
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Statistical Problem

If one of a group of n items is distinguishable, then it can be found in (n+1)/2 attempts, on average, by examining a random item from the group, provided that the same item is not chosen twice. How...
09:15 Mon 25th Jul 202221 answers, last by Peter Pedant 16:06 Tue 26th Jul 2022
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Does Turbulence Keep Wind Turbines In Phase?

Yesterday, two wind turbines kept in phase for all the time that I watched them. Was turbulence locking their rotations together? One was directly downwind of the other. A third turbine, at the side...
19:41 Fri 22nd Apr 202212 answers, last by Peter Pedant 21:14 Fri 22nd Apr 2022
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How Long Does The Severn Flow.

How long in time (not distance) does it take a river like the Severn to flow from its source to the sea? Of course, this is impossible to answer: some molecules will travel faster than others; some...
19:49 Wed 03rd Nov 202131 answers, last by Peter Pedant 09:48 Sun 14th Nov 2021
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Polynomial?

I need a formula that monotonically decreases from f(0)=infinity to f(infinity)=0 and passes through the points f(a)=2 and f(b)=1, where a
14:18 Sun 31st Oct 202112 answers, last by jim360 21:27 Wed 03rd Nov 2021

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