⅐ = 0.1̅4̅2̅8̅5̅7̅

The above is 42857 * 7, but you also get interesting numbers for other subsets:

     7 * 7 =     49
    57 * 7 =    399
   857 * 7 =   5999
  2857 * 7 =  19999
 42857 * 7 = 299999
142857 * 7 = 999999

Related to cyclic numbers:

142857 * 1 = 142857
142857 * 2 = 285714
142857 * 3 = 428571
142857 * 4 = 571428
142857 * 5 = 714285
142857 * 6 = 857142
142857 * 7 = 999999

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Anybody do any trick or treating? It was pretty cold and wet

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That’s great to hear. Even with the current complaints about Amtrak (speed, etc), more routes would be a huge boon.

They have been historically. I think they may not going forward though. Mostly because now that it’s “a thing” you’re going to have a lot of people trying to screw around with it that don’t mind losing money, which makes betting markets irrational

Awesome! Anything interesting about it that you can talk about? I understand if there’s NDAs or you don’t want to put too much personal info on the internet.

I think we’re going to see betting markets drop in prominence after this election. They’re a great example of Goodhart’s Law:

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

Betting markets are great when everyone is trying to maximize profit. But once they become political, true believers will try to influence the outcome by affecting the betting market itself, even if they lose money on it. For example from the article:

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal about a crypto-based prediction market Polymarket that made it look like Trump had a 62% chance of winning. CNBC reported that a single trader from France was moving the market by betting more than $28 million that Trump would win.

What do you disagree with the article on?

The answer will shock approximately nobody on Lemmy, but it’s a good, careful look at what history can show us, from a pedantic historian.

Of note is that there’s going to be a special election for Ramsey County Commissioner, District 3:

District 3 is having a special election because Trista Martinson (formerly Trista MatasCastillo) resigned to take a different county position.

I haven’t checked, but near the green line Zipps is going to be your best bet. They’re relatively big and tend to have good selection. You could try Surly’s relatively new N/A beer Outlook Good, though that’s IPA-style. I like Hairless Dog in general, they take an interesting approach of trying to make beer-like drinks instead of dealcoholizing.

It’s also not local, but you can find Athletic Brewing N/A beers in a lot of places around the Twin Cities, lots of groceries stores carry it.

The title sounds like the off-brand Halloween costume version of Baba Yaga’s house

I wonder if they’ll try out some Adverse Possession by scaring people off and then claiming that nobody uses it

Here’s the park they’re talking about on OpenStreetMap. You can really see the weird tentacle there:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/18141868#map=17/44.955736/-93.318526

Looks like 40%:

Forty percent of lottery net proceeds go to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF). The remaining 60 percent of net proceeds go toward Minnesota’s General Fund

Really looks like a 70’s sci fi book cover