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Sequences for Numbers Nerds
The New York Sun ^
| May 6, 2007
| LENORE SKENAZY
Posted on 05/08/2007 5:57:16 AM PDT by murdoog
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For all of my fellow numbers nerds. Enjoy
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posted on
05/08/2007 5:57:20 AM PDT
by
murdoog
To: murdoog
Sunday morning at three minutes and four seconds after 2 a.m., it will be exactly 02:03:04 05/06/07.Interesting since the article was published after the fact.
To: murdoog
I always insert mathmatical notation between the numbers so they form an equation.
The time is 9:00. As easy equation is (9 * 0 = 0). Now it’s 9:01, which is (9^0=1).
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:02:00 AM PDT
by
Tao Yin
To: murdoog
Do you get excited when your odometer reaches 66666.6?
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:02:32 AM PDT
by
Deguello
To: murdoog
And when it’s 11:11 well, it just doesn’t get much better than that.
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I was at a lacrosse game on Sunday, and just had to say “hey, look” when the score board read 11:11 [remaining] and a score of 11 - 4. Another 4 on the board for 4th quarter rounded out the symmetry.
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:03:53 AM PDT
by
maica
(America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
To: Deguello
No, but I like to watch it turn over. :)
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:04:26 AM PDT
by
murdoog
To: scripter
To: murdoog
02:03:04 05/06/07 Much of the world will have to wait until June 5 for this.
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:05:27 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
To: maica
Have to add that time was stopped on those numbers, it didn’t just click by.
9
posted on
05/08/2007 6:05:30 AM PDT
by
maica
(America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
To: murdoog
While this particular set: 02:03:04 05/06/07 is rare, the theme is not. Next we’ll have 03:04:05 06/07/08, and a similar data point every year.
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:06:40 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: maica
I was at a lacrosse game on Sunday, and just had to say hey, look when the score board read 11:11 [remaining] and a score of 11 - 4. Another 4 on the board for 4th quarter rounded out the symmetry. Note: The sequence 11-44 is not symmetric, although something like 12:21 is.
11
posted on
05/08/2007 6:13:24 AM PDT
by
twhitak
To: twhitak
Well I guess you had to see it.
4 11:11 11 4
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:23:53 AM PDT
by
maica
(America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
To: Tao Yin
Now its 9:01, which is (9^0=1). A clock is a clock, and a calculator is a calculator; best not to confuse the two.
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posted on
05/08/2007 6:31:42 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: murdoog
Would a real Nerd have a digital watch set to GMT?
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posted on
05/08/2007 7:40:08 AM PDT
by
Deguello
To: Deguello
The odometer on my truck just hit 111111.1.
:-)
To: Tao Yin
What do * and ^ mean, Tao?
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posted on
05/08/2007 7:45:17 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(The Democrat Party is the Party of Sociopaths and Morons (S&M).)
To: Deguello
Do you get excited when your odometer reaches 66666.6? I will pull off the road just to admire the presentation. At the rate I am driving this event will happen in about 12 years if the gasoline supply holds up.
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posted on
05/08/2007 7:45:23 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: Deguello
I hit 123,456.7 three years ago on my neon...
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posted on
05/08/2007 7:54:28 AM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: Tao Yin
I always insert mathmatical notation between the numbers so they form an equation. The time is 9:00. As easy equation is (9 * 0 = 0). Now its 9:01, which is (9^0=1). Oh. my. goodness. I do that too! It's like a nervous tic I get sometimes.
To: murdoog
it will be exactly 02:03:04 05/06/07 No, it will be (was) 2:03.04 on 5/6/2007. We don't generally put zeroes in front of those numbers, and why subtract 2000 from the year?
Further, this isn't really that "cool" because, why are the quantities written in that order? Hours minutes seconds days months years? Wouldn't small-to-big or big-to-small be more logical? But then you'd have
2007-05-06, 2:03.04
or
4 sec 3 min 2 hr, 6th day 5th month of 2007
neither of which is that cool.
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