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![]() ![]() Talking Time's Top 50 Numbers Hi everyone! Thanks for your flexibility and patience as I got everything ready! This is a list of numbers, with some interesting facts, and maybe a few statistics along the way, 'cause I'm that kind of guy. We'll start off this evening with a few honorable mentions that didn't make the list, but only by a hair. A List of Numbers
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![]() 420 Points: 65 Mentions: 2 First Round Rank: 47 First Round Points: 65 Movement between rounds: -7 Person Most Likely to be Giggling in a Hazy Room While Reading This: Falselogic (Ranked at #2) Binary Representation: 110100100 Roman Numeral Representation: CDXX ASCII Symbol: Ƥ Divisors: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,14,15,20,21,28,30,35,42,60,70, 84,105,140,210 Other Notables: Least common multiple of all of the first 7 positive integers 420 is an amazing number because it’s relatively small for a number with 23 different divisors. It can also be divided by all of the first 7 integers and 10, meaning that you can split a lot of 420 items a bunch of different ways for small parties. It’s really useful that way! I feel like there’s something else too….
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![]() 20 Points: 70 Mentions: 3 First Round Rank: 51 First Round Points: 60 Movement between rounds: -2 Person Who Definitely Enjoyed The Second Voyage of the Mimi Way Too Much in Middle School: Bulgakov (Ranked at #9) Binary Representation: 10100 Roman Numeral Representation: XX ASCII Symbol: “Device Control 4” Divisors: 1,2,4,5,10 Other Notables: can be expressed as 2^2 + 4^2 20 is a great number. $20 is cultural sweet spot where you have just enough money that you can have a little fun, but still feel like maybe you shouldn’t be spending that much on a movie ticket and some sour patch kids when you have Netflix at home. 20 is officially the end of teenage years. It’s the number of sides on your core D&D die. It’s the maximum number of face-turns you need to solve a Rubik’s cube. But most importantly, 20 is the base of the Mayan system of numbers, which pretty much blows your mind when you’re a 6th grader who doesn’t have a lot of friends and likes to make up math problems in their spare time but hasn’t really been exposed to bases yet. Shut up, you’re jealous. |
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![]() 86 Points: 73 Mentions: 4 First Round Rank: 54 First Round Points: 59 Movement between rounds:+2 Person Who Has Been Forcibly Ejected From the Most Restaurants: Thraeg (ranked at #4) Binary Representation: 1010110 Roman Numeral Representation: LXXXVI ASCII Symbol: V Divisors: 1,2,43 To “eighty-six” something is to can it, get rid of it, or otherwise eliminate it. In restaurants, bars this is also slang for throwing out an unruly customer. In organized crime, it can be slang for an order to kill. The first recorded use of the number as slang dates back to 1944 in a biography of John Barrymore (apparently he was known for his heavy drinking and was not to be served at some bars). Last edited by Bulgakov; 01-10-2019 at 12:13 PM. |
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This list is shaping up to be pretty good.
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Two rounds of voting is entirely justified as it got the weed number off the list. False Logic I am very disappointed in you for doing a drug.
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Well the honorable mentions already spiced up the results. I'm intrigued to see where this goes from here!
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Big fan of the thread title. Looking forward to reading this one.
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"Scientists belief there are as many as 24 stars in the universe."
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You're really not going to like my #1 pick...
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"Nothing as pure as math" my ass.
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You are correct! Sorry; bad data read on my end, I will update the post!
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![]() 111 Points: 75 Mentions: 3 First Round Rank: 38 First Round Points: 75 Movement between rounds:-12 Person So Enlightened They Probably Weren’t Even Aware That They Were This Enlightened: WildcatJF Ranked at #3 Binary Representation: 1101111 Roman Numeral Representation: CXI ASCII Symbol: o Divisors: 1,3,37 Other Notables: First 3-digit integer with only one unique digit, palindrome If you’d like a bit more information on 111’s obviously significant numerology, I’ll just leave this link right here. That said, 111 has a number of more material properties that make it interesting:
Running average of all numbers under 10 Million: 111 Running average of all numbers It's reasonable to include:111 Last edited by Bulgakov; 01-10-2019 at 11:27 PM. |
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![]() 1024 Points: 75 Mentions: 4 First Round Rank: 119 First Round Points: 27 Movement between rounds: +69 Most Obvious Computer Nerd: Destil Ranked at #7 Binary Representation: 10000000000 Roman Numeral Representation: MXXIV ASCII Symbol: Ѐ Divisors: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512 Other Notables: Can be expressed as 2^10 Our first significant computer/videogame number related to memory! 1024 is a really important number for computers, thanks to its nice round binary numbering. It’s the maximum number of memory addresses you can assign in a 10-bit binary system. As a result of this, the base unit of modern computer memory systems is the kibibyte. A kibibyte, of course, is 1024 bytes, and a portmanteau of “Kilo” and “Binary.” It is very explicitly not to be confused with a kilobyte, which was originally defined as 1024 bytes, but dropped in 1998 when people got tired of kilobyte sounding like it meant 1000 bytes based on the metric prefix kilo-. So they clarified it by redefining a kilobyte as 1000 bytes and a kibibyte as 1024 bytes, then made sure that our major front-end operating systems still used the old definition of KB (that is, 1024 bytes) to keep things clear for the common person. And us English system users thought we were the only ones with stupid squabbles about measurement! It’s a good thing that like always, computer scientists and engineers were there to come up with a perfectly acceptable solution with no complications. Running average of all numbers under 10 Million: 567.5 Running average of all numbers It's reasonable to include: 567.5 |
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This thread pleases me, but I was SURE 420 would be higher!
Hahahahaha "Higher". |
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![]() 25 Points: 76 Mentions: 4 First Round Rank: 56 First Round Points: 3 Movement between rounds: +7 Person Desperate to Get Back to the Days When They Had No Responsibilities and the World Was Their Oyster: BEAT Ranked at #12 Binary Representation: 111100 Roman Numeral Representation: XXV ASCII Symbol: “End of Medium” Divisors: 1,5 Other Notables: Perfect square of 5, can also be expressed as 3^2 + 4^2
Also BEAT really likes this song: Running average of all numbers under 10 Million: 386.666667 Running average of all numbers It's reasonable to include:386.666667 |
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I'm sorry in advance for my list being dominated by powers of two.
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Huh, I really should've voted for 1024. It'd be very on-brand. But my list was pretty dang stream-of-consciousness and somehow it didn't come up.
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AKA vigesimal. (I had ranked this number at 19 in both rounds.)
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On a side note I think that guy having fun at work could also be higher. Last edited by Torzelbaum; 01-10-2019 at 08:34 PM. |
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Jesus Christ how high do cricket scores usually go?
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Tou should ask how long. Because the answer is literally "days".
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Maybe 300-500 runs. A test match goes for five days.
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Yay I'm already seeing number dividends. And 111 right before my birthday today? A delightful coincidence.
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Voted 86 also for the Maxwell Smart
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The gate of opportunity is open for your birthday!
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Wow, not even the REAL match, just a test.
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