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Posted: May 02 2012 at 21:56

Man With Hat wrote:

9082.178

Google gives me all sorts of results. Why that number?

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:56

'39

This night wounds time.

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:49

9082.178

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:46

zappaholic wrote:

Seriously, Dayv, if you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy and its sequels, do yourself a favor.

Or see the BBC TV series.
Or hunt down the BBC radio series.
Avoid the movie tho.

*would vote for 42 were it an option*

I will look into it.

Translation: never (granted that I always try to come up with an open window for other things.)

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:38

zappaholic wrote:

Seriously, Dayv, if you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy and its sequels, do yourself a favor.

*would vote for 42 were it an option*

I was gunna say this is research you want to do, but I've been beaten to the punch.
Also lol you best be trolling...

I believe 42 would fall in the "23.2 to infinity (please specify)" range Wink

Goodness PA, I can't believe literally everything needs to be spelled out like this LOL

Edited by JJLehto - May 02 2012 at 20:39

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:33

Seriously, Dayv, if you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy and its sequels, do yourself a favor.

Or see the BBC TV series.
Or hunt down the BBC radio series.
Avoid the movie tho.

*would vote for 42 were it an option*

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:31

^ Oh, so I have to do research ? Sick

... [rushing to the bathroom].

BTW: 11? Nein. It's 10.

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:29

Well, regardless the confusion should be settled.
At least where I got it from....you'd need to dig deeper still to truly get 42

edit: 1+1?
Well, 1+1 = 11 so clearly, 11!

Edited by JJLehto - May 02 2012 at 20:29

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:08

JJLehto wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

JJLehto wrote:

Well I didn't come up with it...it's just the truth.

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

I'm sure you're a fine lad but honestly, I'm a tad disappointed in you now Cry

How? 9*3 = 27

27*2 = 54.

Is 42 some kind of "blind truth" ? I don't get it. Could you please expand on it?

....are you a "math person" by chance? LOL

I was a math person in the Formal Geometry class in high school. Now that I'm in the Computer Science 365 class, not so much. To sum up, the answer is 'no'. But you have to be careful:

What's 1+1 ?

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 02 2012 at 20:08

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:33

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Ha! ... I know someone came up with another favorite fraction - 6/6 - the time of the devil. Speaking of which ... I can't remember anyone mentioning the significance of 1. A number used in binary math. You divide a number by itself, you get 1. Hm.

JJLehto wrote:

Well I didn't come up with it...it's just the truth.

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

I'm sure you're a fine lad but honestly, I'm a tad disappointed in you now Cry

How? 9*3 = 27

27*2 = 54.

Is 42 some kind of "blind truth" ? I don't get it. Could you please expand on it?

]

[

And Dean, man, sorry, I just don't see it. Is there a clue somewhere on the image or something? Am I blind?

Oh my gosh, at first I was disappointed that someone told him what to look up, because I thought we could've kept it going and had fun with it...but this makes up for that! LOL

My 2012 List

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:20

Dayvenkirq wrote:

JJLehto wrote:

Well I didn't come up with it...it's just the truth.

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

I'm sure you're a fine lad but honestly, I'm a tad disappointed in you now Cry

How? 9*3 = 27

27*2 = 54.

Is 42 some kind of "blind truth" ? I don't get it. Could you please expand on it?

....are you a "math person" by chance? LOL

Edited by JJLehto - May 02 2012 at 19:21

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:16

JJLehto wrote:

Well I didn't come up with it...it's just the truth.

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

I'm sure you're a fine lad but honestly, I'm a tad disappointed in you now Cry

How? 9*3 = 27

27*2 = 54.

Is 42 some kind of "blind truth" ? I don't get it. Could you please expand on it?

]

[

And Dean, man, sorry, I just don't see it. Is there a clue somewhere on the image or something? Am I blind?

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 02 2012 at 19:17

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:06

And still no one to mourn about the absence of our favourite fraction, 7/8?

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:05

What?

JJLehto

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:59

Dayvenkirq wrote:

JJLehto wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

dtguitarfan wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die?

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

Incorrect. Seriously It's 42. I thought we all knew Confused

Where did you come up with that?

Well I didn't come up with it...it's just the truth.

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

I'm sure you're a fine lad but honestly, I'm a tad disappointed in you now Cry

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:58

JJLehto wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

dtguitarfan wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die?

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

Incorrect. Seriously It's 42. I thought we all knew Confused

Where did you come up with that?

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:50

All reality, I always did like 7
No idea why

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:48

I don't have a favourite number, or a lucky number or a prefered number. When I was younger (4 or 5) I wanted 4 to be my lucky number as it was my month of birth, but I soon realised it was no more or less lucky than any other number so it soon lost any significance.

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

...followed closely by the squareroot of 2.

I like this number because 2/√2 = √2 and ½√2 = √½ = 1/√2 = cos(π/4) = sin(π/4) and ISO paper sizes are based on it... and many other reasons, such as it is the ratio of peak to RMS for a sine wave and the f-stops on a camera lens and the tritone interval in the twelve-tone musical scale (the semitone note interval is the 1/12 root of 2).

The golden ratio is pretty neat too.

What?

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:46

Dayvenkirq wrote:

dtguitarfan wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die?

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

Incorrect.

Seriously
It's 42

I thought we all knew Confused

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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:43

dtguitarfan wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die?

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

Poll Question: What is it?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
1	1	[3.45%]
2	1	[3.45%]
3	4	[13.79%]
4	1	[3.45%]
5	2	[6.90%]
6	1	[3.45%]
7	0	[0.00%]
8	0	[0.00%]
9	0	[0.00%]
10	1	[3.45%]
11	3	[10.34%]
12	1	[3.45%]
13	1	[3.45%]
14	1	[3.45%]
15	0	[0.00%]
16	0	[0.00%]
17	2	[6.90%]
18	0	[0.00%]
19	1	[3.45%]
20	0	[0.00%]
21	0	[0.00%]
22	1	[3.45%]
23	0	[0.00%]
23.1	1	[3.45%]
23.2 to infinity (specifiy please)	7	[24.14%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted