1st April Power to the people


A 58 yr old man living in Hucknall has inadvertantly managed to create one of the greatest mathematical puzzles every devised. 

Boffins and brainboxes up and down the land who like nothing better than trying to solve a Dophantine equation, have been left scratching their heads after trying to work out the complex series of number patterns generated after this unnamed individual attempted to submit his gas and electricity readings prior to midnights price hike. 

Quite unsure what he was actually attempting to read, he decided in his wisdom it would be far better just to offer up every single combination of numbers after pressing each and every button on his gas and electricity meter over and over again. It is now quite possible he has now inadvertantly suggested to OVO that he has consumed energy equivalent to a small developing country in the past two months.

At the time of going to press Grace Under Pressure is unable to confirm that this unnamed man will be spending today calculating just how much energy each device in his house uses starting with boiling a kettle, which incidentaly turned out to be 5p. Ten minutes later when he returned to the kitchen his meter now read £41,874,99.

Together with planing on wearing his entire wardrobe as a series of thermal layers, spending as much time as possible at church, visting the elderly (who always have their heating on all year round) or staying at TOM's, it is hoped that his penny pinching protocols will pay off.

 

 

 


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