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"Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...
String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child. [1] A popular string game is cat's cradle, but many string figures are known in many places under different names, [2] and string figures are well distributed throughout the world. [3] [4]
Galena (lead sulfide) was the most common crystal used, [80] [92] [94] but various other types of crystals were also used, the most common being iron pyrite (fool's gold, FeS 2), silicon, molybdenite (MoS 2), silicon carbide (carborundum, SiC), and a zincite-bornite (ZnO-Cu 5 FeS 4) crystal-to-crystal junction trade-named Perikon.
Name First elements Short description OEIS Mersenne prime exponents : 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 61, 89, ... Primes p such that 2 p − 1 is prime.: A000043 ...
It was the first type of semiconductor diode, [4] and one of the first semiconductor electronic devices. [5] The most common type was the so-called cat's whisker detector, which consisted of a piece of crystalline mineral, usually galena (lead sulfide), with a fine wire touching its surface. [2] [5] [6]
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Camilla Gryski's Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Games. illus. Tom Sankey. Scholastic/Kids Can Press, 1995. ISBN 9780439779388/ ISBN 978-1-55337-090-1. Camilla Gryski's Favourite String Games. illus. Tom Sankey. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-55074-261-9. Let's Play: Traditional Games of Childhood. illus. Dušan Petričić. Toronto ...
2 to go – Standard game, the numbers 1 to 9 start up. On the first roll, the number 2 must be one of the ones dropped. Any player who rolls a 4 on their first roll loses immediately. 3 to go – The same as "2 to go" but the number 3 must be dropped instead. 3 down extreme – Numbers 1–3 are pre-dropped, leaving numbers 4–9 up.