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- Surefoot, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3468 = Do me first and I owe you one.
- andrethegiant, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2171 = 69 with 2 fingers up your ass
- cybernetic798, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22I thought these guys were being stupid about 68 and 71 but these are the actual definitions!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=68
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=71 - bajabound, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10138 = dinner for 4!
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11 = The number after 0!
Gee, it's a lot harder to do this without using the Urban Dictionary... - cadpo76, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Everyone point and laugh at cybernetic798, who thinks UrbanDictionary is a legitimate dictionary reference!
Although it does manage to be one of the word's most comprehensive collections of 'yo mama' jokes.
- lemorex, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Looks like someone had time on their hands. Neat report, I bet you could use it to get your 70 year old math teacher to consider extra credit it you did this.
- BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36You mean 0 - 500, There is more than one page...
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Good catch... I didn't see the link at the bottom.
- darkmist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1242 is a cult number.
Yeah that sums it up.
All hail the great Douglas Adams - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+124 FTW.
- robfrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+80: The Czech phrase: Strc prst skrz krk meaning "thrust finger through neck", contains 0 vowels and semi-vowels!
That's worth a digg in my book.
I'm easy to impress. - foovo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3One thing they have wrong is that watches in advertisements are usually NOT at 10:10. They are more often than not between 10:08:37 and 10:08:42. There's even a Bond film with a nice bit of product placement where he looks at his Omega, it hits the 'magic set of numbers' and he says "right on time".
- foovo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I correct myself - Bond wore a SEIKO in the Roger Moore era and 10:08:42 were the magic numbers. For those who like this sort of stuff:
http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/qbranch_watches.php3?t=&s=
- foovo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I correct myself - Bond wore a SEIKO in the Roger Moore era and 10:08:42 were the magic numbers. For those who like this sort of stuff:
- Grambo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"There are almost 17 ounces in a pound."
Running kind of thin on the facts? - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I thought this looked familiar. See http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html ... It goes up to 9,999!
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4All of the LOST numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) appear on the list but it offers no clue as to their meaning.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -3/+1That's because it's just bs that the writes made up?
Though, if they somehow chose those numbers knowing that someone would find this it'd be cool.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -3/+1That's because it's just bs that the writes made up?
- jessiepoohky, on 10/12/2007, -22/+3Why do some many bullsh*t stories get to be on the front page on digg?
It's because digg is rigged.
Plain and simple - otherland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"The Italians foolishly think that 17 is unlucky"
But the author doesn't add any personal opinion to Asians believing 4 is unlucky or Christians believing 13 is unlucky....
Only the Italians are "foolish" lol- Hypodrive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Thats right... Italians thinking they can solve everything with their pizza and mafia.
Bah! - JoeWall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it s because they have an italian in their team (see italian version of site).
laughing at people you don t know is cheap.
- Hypodrive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Thats right... Italians thinking they can solve everything with their pizza and mafia.
- tjl2015, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ahh! I'm pretty sure this abomination was created when a bunch of mathematicians got together for a giant coke party!
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1To jessiepoohky, why is because capn_caveman digged this thats why.
- depi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Very interesting things, thanks, diggg! :)
- shinigami2057, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Um, cosinus(30) = 1/2? What ever happened to cosine?
- xstephx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The subtitle isn't totally correct (0 to 69), as i isn't a real number, but an imaginary one, thus it isn't between 0 and 69 ;-)
(but who cares ?) - khorbin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm a bit disappointed - I was hoping for something a bit more... math-ish.
- wobuzhudao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Something more "mathish"?
I just looked at the first page, and I don't know how much more "mathish" you can get.
- wobuzhudao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Something more "mathish"?
- NGNR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For 42:
"The beauty of the gravity sled is that the sled's tunnel needn't pass through the centre of the planet to work! The really neat part is that any two cities that could create a straight-line tunnel between them - a tunnel that cuts across any arc of the planet's surface - could enjoy the same sled ride; albeit at less insane velocities and temperatures. And every tunnel's ride would take the same 42 minutes!"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2960633
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train - strcmp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The "paradox" with i is not really a paradox. Most of the root manipulation laws do not apply when the radicand is negative.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well tell that to Italian mathematician Mr. Girolamo Cardano
- brakiachi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0I stopped reading after sqrt(-1), I mean, he didn't even get his math right:
(sqrt(1))^2=(sqrt(-1))^2 so 1= -1....come on man. - tomi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I hope I'm not the only one who noticed the next page buttons.
The list goes up to 500.- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're not. Look at the third comment, not counting replies.
- berserker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1beware the 17
est. 1841 - diggtard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"68 is the last 2-digit string to appear in the decimal expansion of Pi."
"the last" - WTF is that.- wobuzhudao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think what is meant by "the last 2-digit string" is that out of all of the possible 2 digit strings in the decimal expansion of pi, "68" is the last one to show up. After that, every 2-digit string is a repeat.
- SweetChuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"The 26 letters of the alphabet can make 40,329x10^22 different combinations." if each letter is used only once. There are an infinite number of combinations if you allow for repetition
- neilpan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ If you allow repetitions then you have infinite combinations ! NO ***** !!! Then you have infinitely long word !!!
Given that you have a finite word length, allowing repetitions will yield finite number of combinations.
Jesus... - SweetChuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, so there are a nearly infinite number of combinations if you allow for repetition. Look at it this way, using each letter only once, allows for a maximum of a 26 letter long word, and a max number of combinations of around 1.09*10^27 allowing different lengths up to 26 letters with no repeated letters. if instead you take words that can be up to 26 letters long and allow the repetition of letters you get the possible number combinations is around 6.4*10^36. If you allow for words of lengths up to 50 letters long, you get around 5.8*10^70 combinations. Apparently one of the worlds longest words (a chemical name) is 1913 letters long this would give a number of possible combinations so much larger than 10^27 that it is advantageous numerically to consider it infinite.
- neilpan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ If you allow repetitions then you have infinite combinations ! NO ***** !!! Then you have infinitely long word !!!
- End_Joy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The bad thing about the imaginary number i, the paradox is not correct. The square root of 1 is NOT equal to the square root of -1... So if you square both of them, they still ARE NOT equal... amazing.
- metajoe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Why is this ***** on the front page?
- neilpan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1because you cant understand it....
- Skyddsman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They dropped the ball on 23! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
- ilikebike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone else notice number 200 is missing from this list?
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