{"id":438,"date":"2012-04-25T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T07:43:46","slug":"swimming-and-arithmetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Swimming and Arithmetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran my pre-paid card for the local pool down to zero. I do this a lot but this was an exact count down to zero. I&#8217;ve done this before, and meant to mention it but didn&#8217;t get around to it. Here&#8217;s a little bit of arithmetic about the swimming cards.<\/p>\n<p>Entry to the pool for an adult is Y380. Pre-paid cards of Y1,000 and Y3,000 are also available at a (I assume non-refundable) discount of 10%. Since I got most days I buy the Y3,000 cards, which cost me Y2,700. The LCM of 380 and 3,000 is 57,000 which is 150 visits using 19 cards. So I&#8217;ve been to the pool 150 times since I last flatlined a card exactly. This has cost me Y51,300 (remember the 10% discount for the pre-paid cards).<\/p>\n<p>Doing this has taken me a little more than 150 days because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my local pool is closed on Tuesdays each week for maintenance (and a staff day off, I suspect);<\/li>\n<li>it closed for about ten days over the new year holiday period;<\/li>\n<li>it is occasinally closed, or only open inconvenient times (it doesn&#8217;t open normally until 9am and sometimes is closed to the public from 2pm because it&#8217;s a shared facility with a local school who sometimes claim sole usage);<\/li>\n<li>I am occasionally ill\/convalescent and don&#8217;t swim;<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t swim when travelling;<\/li>\n<li>I sometimes don&#8217;t swim because I just can&#8217;t make the time, such as when acting as your guide for Alastair Reynolds on his first day in Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On days when my local pool is closed and I can arrange it, I swim at a pool once stop away on the JR Sobu line at Kinshichou. I did this for a couple of days at new year, though I did also take a couple of days not swimming when that pool was open.<\/p>\n<p>So far as I can recall I last flatlined a card sometime last autumn, maybe October.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of swimming and, when one adds it up, quite a lot of money. Still, it&#8217;s paying off. More about that hopefully within a month or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran my pre-paid card for the local pool down to zero. I do this a lot but this was an exact count down to zero. I&#8217;ve done this before, and meant to mention it but didn&#8217;t get around to it. Here&#8217;s a little bit of arithmetic about the swimming cards. Entry to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}