I like magic numbers!

[Galapagosian]

Why the Number 4 Is Perfect (A Summary)

Let's take a random number, say 2995.

That's two thousand nine hundred ninety five.

There are thirty two letters in 2995.

There are nine letters in 32.

There are four letters in 9.

There are four letters in 4.

See? perfect (can't be reduced farther).

Spaghetti has nine letters. See above.

Flying spaghetti monster has twenty two letters.

There are nine letters in 22.

Aaaaand... we're back to 4.

Perfect.

(not to mention nearly infinitely simpler than Doc's stuff - it's even mostly forgiving of spelling and counting errors, just have to make sure you get "four" right ).

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

Qwerty... made that up, dead honest. It's a sign!




Actually, you're summing the digit two different ways. Any block of numbers will do that.

[Qwertyuiopasd]

I'm going with Doc and mine's one. although 10-10-10 is interesting, since i graduate in '10, and 9-10 is my birthday. so that'll probably be my first year in colledge... which works for me!

but still doc, you randomly threw those numbers together, and then with alpacas mad binary skill, we get 52 yet again.

coincidence?

I THINK NOT!

it MUST be a sign.

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

Hmm... 42 to the base 8... me likee 52.

THAT's the answer to the question only the FSM know... the answer to everything as filtered through the Holy Meatballs.

[Qwertyuiopasd]

he must really like math!

so we agree, that the important things are

2995
3003
5772

8

and

52

did I miss anything?

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

2995
3003
5772

If you look at the right and bottom lines of numbers, they have 52 hidden in them... the remaining numbers add to 13, which is the AVERAGE of any vertical line.

52 weeks in a year, also 52 cards in a pack.

[Qwertyuiopasd]

By Jove I think we've got it!

any significane of 599? its 300 and 199... or maybe its 22. 22 is them added up...

great work guys. I think 52 is IT!

[PragmaticallyWyrd]

By Jove I think we've got it!

any significane of 599? its 300 and 199... or maybe its 22. 22 is them added up...

great work guys. I think 52 is IT!

Now we're really getting somewhere.
Also, we're either at or just past page 8 in the forum. w00t!

[LibraLabRat]

what about my favorite number?
10141977?

[Alpaca]

what about my favorite number?
10141977?

I'll work on connecting it to 52 somehow.

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

LLR: It's 1096 before my favorite #, I think, although I stick with 15 as the shorthand (and usually put it as DDMMYYY). There's 78 days in the year after yours, and 77 after mine, another favorite #, which come up in yours and the FSM-matrix.

[Edit: Ran some factor analysis on the number 9532775329 (read clockwise around the meatballs from 12:00) Here's what I found:

9532775329 = 7*11*47*167*15773 (all primes, obviously)

9532775329/77 =123802277

This 77 keeps coming up. It's a personal lucky number, so perhaps I've managed to throw my luck into the original # by accident.

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

Sorry on the double post, but this deserved it.

77-52 =25

25 = 5^2

[PragmaticallyWyrd]

The primes thing reminded me--
I really like the number 1001 because, at first glance to the not-very trained eye like mine, it looks like it should be prime, but in fact it's the product of three consecutive primes:
7 * 11 * 13 = 1001.
(hey, there's another 77 in 7*11 )

And this reminds me of a math property I once learned as a calculator trick.

If x,y,z be digits and x does not equal zero, then note:

The number xyzxyz divided by 7 divided by 11 divided by 13 = xyz.

Example: 285285 / 7 / 11 / 13 = 285

[Duke]

We should pick a number with absolutely no significance, just to throw them off.

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

Speaking of 11 and 13, splitting the FS Matrix from the 6:00 position gives 7532995327

7532995327 factors to the rather odd primes of 11, 13 and 52678289.