Truth or consequences

[davewitley]

Kneasy wrote:

> Langford (of whom I've written before) describes the 
mathematicians 
> version which he and his friends developed (as below) over many 
> beer-soaked sessions.
> At 3 or multiples say "Oink"
>      5 or multiples say "Fizz"
>      7 or multiples say "Buzz"
>      11 or multiples say "Burp"
> fairly straightforward, so they decided to liven it up and added:
> "Clang" for each prime number
> "Pow" for perfect squares
> "Zap" for powers of two
> 
> Thus 1, 2, 3, 4 would be expressed as "Clang Pow", "Clang Zap", 
> "Oink Clang", "Pow Zap".

Error.  1 is "Pow zap".

> It's claimed that the first number to be expressed as numerals is 
26, 
> though I've never  checked it myself.

Yes, that is correct.

> (There also exists Cantorian Fizz Buzz, played with real numbers 
between
> 0 and 1 with special grunts for transcendentals.) 
> These are not normal people.

And your point is...?

David, fluffy mathematician