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One g is acceleration (or gravitational field intensity), not force. The force holding you on Earth is your weight.
Joining the chorus of kudos here. I enjoyed having this puzzle give me a chuckle (at my own expense) even after I had solved it. I got DREAMS mostly by crosses. For what a short time after my solve I was thinking "wait, D is 500 not 250,000". Hum. DREAMS -> D REAMS ....... oooh yeah. Loved it.
@Barry Ancona Where did ypu find those "global" stats?
Very enjoyable. My aha moment came too late to help my time, but at least it let me fix my one last incorrect square. Does anyone remember puzzles that played games with the clues being more frequent 5 to 10 years ago, but rare since then?
@Kelly Bauch Since pucks are cylinders, it was more like loose terminology than a pun Either way, worth a "?".
Like yesterday, a slow start and then a few catalyst answers kicked things into high gear. Not related to this puzzle, but a note on general solve time statistics: My times for the regular Sword are a strictly increasing step function Mon-Sun, with times going up 2-6 mins each day, except for a big step up from Sat to Sun. But the Mini does NOT follow that pattern. After 149 minis, my median times start highest on Mon, then strictly decrease to Thursday., Then a bump up Fri/Sat followed by a drop to the minimum time on Sunday. I wonder if others seem the same difference in solve time patterns between the main & mini?
When I saw "three...averages", what came to mind were the harmonic, geometric, and arithmetic means. Of course none of the adjective parts fit, so I guess the author wanted the noun part, but then why the "one of"? Perhaps the author was thinking of the triplet arithmetic mean, median, and mode, which are often discussed together. Technically these are all "statistics", i.e., functions of a data set, with others being standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis.
@Barry Ancona I'm making a Physics 101 distinction in units and numeric values. All objects falling near the surface of the earth experience the same acceleration of 9.8 m/s/s in a vacuum. But each object experiences a numerically different force -- e.g. the force on me would be 622 kg m/s/s (622 Newtons or 140 lbs) but the force on a baseball would be about 1.4 N =0.315 lb Note that both the Wiki page and Elie Levine's commentary point out, a "g" is a force per unit mass.
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