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The campfire that features stories, articles, and jokes about numbers |
| [Introduction] Instead of a connected story, this campfire is a series of additions only related because they all have something to do with numbers (but you can connect your own additions together in a story line if you like). Some examples of types of additions you might make: 1. Personal incident involving a number 2. Joke that hinges on a number 3. Discussion of number symbolism 4. My Lucky Number 5. Numbers in history 6. Flash fiction involving a number 7. Poem about a number or about numbers You get the idea... almost anything as long as it relates to numbers. How to get your turn skipped. Please don't skip your turn. At least put down an addition of two or three words even if it's just to say you have nothing to say.  Every morning very early I check the campfire. If there was no activity in the last 24 hours, then I will skip whoever's turn it is and switch it to the next person. |
| A JOKE I thought I might start us off with a naughty joke. This is one of the first jokes I ever heard. It was in school, of course, and probably seemed so funny to me because of the butt reference... A man wants to get rid of a tapeworm so he goes to the doctor. "No problem," says the doctor. "You will need a dozen boiled eggs, eleven chocolate chip cookies, and a hammer." "Really?" says the man. "What do I do with them?" "Every morning shove a boiled egg up your butt, wait a couple of minutes, and then shove a cookie in. Do that for eleven days. On the 12th day, shove the egg up your butt, but no cookie. When the tapeworm sticks his head out and says, 'Hey! Where's my chocolate chip cookie?' then you hit him in the head with the hammer and kill him." |
| My three lucky numbers are 5, 8, and 13. When I was young, I was very impressionable; 5 came from my favorite TV show in preschool, Hi-5 (5 members, and everything pretty much revolved around that number), 8 was because Charli, my favorite character, said 8 was her lucky number. That came around late elementary school. 13 came from Taylor Swift, who declared that as her lucky number, which was middle school. Looking on it now, 13 is the sum of 5 and 8- it's also like the sum of my childhood.  |
@Dragon is hiding  ... That's cool that 13 is the sum of 8 and 5! My lucky number is 3. I have no idea why. It's been my lucky number for so long that I forget how it started. But I like the fact that 3 is the most stable number, that a 3-legged stool will always stand without wobbling, that triangles are the strongest element to build with. |
| That's very true! "3" is also a very religious number (so I learned in English class in 11th grade)... 3 apostles and such. And therefore the fairytales followed suit! |
| numerology was created by philosophers such as Pythagoras. Throughout the years many powerful societies and cults have bathed in the symbolism, creating sequenced numbers of power! It has been expanded upon by many, such as Solomon or Aleister Crowley... Why am I telling you this? because now it is up to you to make a number sequence... why do I care? IDK, I just do...  |
@ WhatIsSafety  ... A number sequence? Anything that comes to mind?Here is one that starts with my lucky number... 3 ... a good place to begin 27 ... 3 x 3 x 3, it doesn't get anymore 3 than that 5 ... that one was spontaneous, begging to be next in sequence 33 ... for obvious reasons Is that enough for a sequence? Now what do I do? |
Numerology most folk eschew But Steve holds to a different view "Other folk just ignore And instead look out for Number one and don't step into two" |
| sorry I wasn't here for a while :P anyhow, studying Thelema and the use of Magick, stay away from number 6... |
| My Dad was born on Feb 2. My Mom was born on Sep 9. That makes it 2.2 and 9.9. If I had had any sense at all, I would have added them together and been born on Nov. 11, which would have made me 11.11. However, since I was born without any sense at all, I was born on Oct. 11. Which, by the Indian way of writing things, is 11.10. (Americans have some different way where they put the month first or something peculiar like that.) Anyway, I have no number sense. I do, however, have a great sense of colour. Notice the pinque. |
| Numbers? Well, yes. "Mene mene tekel upharsin" Belshazzar had been a naughty boy and committed various acts of sacrilege, so Yahweh caused this message to appear on the wall at the height of Belshazzar's feast. Consternation - no one knew what it meant until the mighty prophet, Daniel was brought into the act. "Your actions have been weighed in the balance and your sins have been numbered (I knew I'd get round to numbers eventually) and your kingdom will be divided between the Medes and the Persians. And so it came to pass, that very night. Belshazzar dropped dead and Babylon was apportioned between its enemies. The moral of this story is, don't makes toasts out of sacred vessels, like the Melbourne Cup. It will only get you into trouble. |
| How many cockroaches does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Can't tell! Every time the light turns on, they scatter.! |
Love and Numbers ONE is the loneliest number. 1+1=2 TWO is for couples and dating and marriage. 2+1=3 THREE is for plot complications. Three is the man who must choose between two women. Three is the woman who must choose between two men. Three is the unexpected news of a baby. 2+2=4 FOUR is for extras like two kinky couples who swing, or twins dating twins, or some other odd thing. |
A recently published list shows that 7 Steps to Anger Management occupies the number one slot for books thrown against the wall, stamped on, and set on fire. PS Pain in the butt entries can't be edited.  |
| There is a book called Malgudi Schooldays by RK Narayan. He talks of a father trying to get a small son to do a math problem. The problem involves buying and selling mangoes, and how much they cost. Typically, it is worded - Ram sells mangoes at Rs. 2 each, Krishna wants 10 mangoes, how much must Krishna pay? (Something like that). The grown ups are obsessed with the numbers. The kid is obsessed with whether the mangoes are ripe or not, because the rate is too high for unripe mangoes. He refuses to do the sum unless his father clarifies that. Was a good, long, warmly funny passage in the book - the father's involvement with numbers and the kid's concern about the justice of it. He also asked if Krishna would get a tummy ache, eating so many mangoes at a time ... |
| kah kah! Like remains merely a number of how long you lived after you die. but if you died at age 11, 22, or 33, you are a powerful person indeed... with things like destiny numbers, the number is very important, for example, if you have lots of 3s in your number history, then you have a chance to be very creative... now 11, 22, and 33 remain the most powerful numbers of all though... 11 is a number of mastery of things like charismatic and intuition 22 is basically a god number, hosting the abilities to turn dreams to realities, with a variety of things like leadership and discipline... 33 is another god number, not as powerful as 22, but remains on the level of 11. In which it is the number of change, knowledge, etc... so remember, if you have anything to do with these numbers, you are special... very special... |
| I must confess that this is not my own work. I'm not sure that anyone knows the identity of the original author, but it's been floating around the ether for a long time: 'Tis a favourite project of mine, a new value to Pi to assign. I would set it at 3 For it's easier, you see Than 3.14159 |
| ooh, pi! I had to memorize the digits in middle and high school for competition- 3.14159265358979323...... Anyways, in Chinese, 4 is an unlucky number, since it sounds so similar to "death". 8, though, is a lucky number. I do wonder about 16- is it doubly good because it's 2 8s, or extremely bad with 4 4s?  I guess it's all how you look at it.  |
| Here is how trolls in Discwold count - One, Two, Three, Many, Many-one, Many-two, Many-three, Many-Many, Many-Many-one, Many-Many-two, Many-Many-three, Many-Many-Many, Many-Many-Many-one, Many-Many-Many-two, Many-Many-Many-three, Lots. After a while though, they eventually run out of numbers. |
| Speaking of pi... (And the square root of 2) Irrational numbers are weird. It seems so wrong that there could be a ratio for which there was no final number, just an unending string of numbers after a decimal point. Numbers are supposed to measure EVERYTHING and yet, there seem to be things that can hide from numbers. |
| My 3 volume War and Peace set has a total of 1,433 pages. Thanks to my newly-acquired Speedreading skills, I read the complete story in just under 2 hours. It's about Russia. |
| I've been on WDC for NINE YEARS. I love the number Nine. In the nine-times-table, all the numbers from nine-ones to nine-tens add up to nine. (9, 18, 27, 36 ... digits add up to nine) Also, it reads backwards, too - from nine-ones being zero-nine/nine-tens being nine-zero; nine-twos being one-eight/nine-nines being eight-one ... you know what I mean ... and lots of other nice things which I won't tell you now because already your head is spinning with what I've just said (unless you already knew it in which case you don't need to know anyhow.) |
| 1089 is a magic number., Write down any 3 digit number, with one condition - the first and last numbers must be different. Then reverse the number and subtract the smaller from the larger. Thus, let's say we choose 239. The reverse is 932 and 932 - 239 = 693. Now, add this number and IT'S reverse, so 693 + 396 = 1089. And this applies for ANY set of three numbers. Note, if a zero appears in any of the calculations, it must be counted. So 746 - 647 = 99. But this must be counted as 099. Thus, when you reverse that, it becomes 990. And 990 + 099 = 1089. I'm not sufficient of a mathematician to say WHY this works, but it does. You can turn this into a little "magic trick". Write "1089" on a slip of paper and seal it into an envelope. Then ask someone for a three digit number, as above, and, hey presto, abracadabra, you've got the number in the sealed envelope. |
| A German soldier is at the beaches of Normandy. How many Allied ships does he see? Answer: All of them. |
| Most animals can only count to two... ZERO ... ONE ... TWO ... MANY That's their entire number system. And the only math they understand is 1 + 1 = 2 2 - 1 = 1 1 - 1 = 0 MANY + MANY = MANY MANY - MANY = MANY But don't poo poo their abilities just yet! Birds that hide food in the ground (like nuts and seeds) have been shown to be able to remember over a thousand different hiding places. Try that, humans! |
| I came across this brain-teaser. (Monty Hall was a game show host apparently.) The Monty Hall problem is a counter-intuitive statistics puzzle: There are 3 doors, behind which are two goats and a car. You pick a door (call it door A). You’re hoping for the car of course. Monty Hall examines the other doors (B & C) and always opens one of them with a goat Here’s the game: Do you stick with door A (original guess) or switch to the other unopened door? Does it matter? Surprisingly, the odds aren’t 50-50. If you switch doors you’ll win 2/3 of the time. Interestingly, the mathematician who pointed this out received many responses from fellow mathematicians insisting the odds were 50-50. Computer simulations showed him to be correct. Even more interestingly, and reinforcing what Steve says above about birds, similar experiments ( using 3 shells with food under one) conducted on pigeons and humans revealed the pigeons quickly adopted the switching strategy, but the humans didn't. |
| So there's this guy who lives on my street who loves buying cars. He's rich, so he can afford to buy cars whenever he feels like. The thing is, he loves the number 55. He pays lotsa rupees to ensure that this number is on each licence plate. So his cars have registration numbers like 550, 5500 and so on ... |
| Back to the Bible this time, and the oddly named Book of Numbers. Oddly named because there are very few numbers in it; most of the book is taken up with the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for 40 years because they had wimped out of entering the promised land, Canaan. Added to which, Yahweh destroys some 15,000 of the Israelites for "murmuring" against their leaders, Moses and Aaron. Two important numbers are discovered. The first is a census of all the men aged over 20 who are capable of bearing arms (as opposed to baring arms, which is a quite different concept). 603,550 men are found to be fit for military service. Now that's quite a sizeable army, and probably didn't include the non-combat units like cooks, the sanitary detail, MASH, clerks or the chaplains. In fact, the Levites were exempted from military service as they had to look after the tabernacle and all the associated religious chores. To cut a long story short, even with this size army, the Israelites refused to enter the "promised land" and were condemned to wander for another 40 years. At the end of this time, another military census was taken to reveal 601,730 men of military age, plus another 23,000 Levites for holy duties. So begins the invasion of Canaan after the destruction of the people of Midian. I've always felt rather sorry for the Canaanites, sitting there, tending their flocks, growing their crops when they are descended upon by the Israelites, saying "This land is our land, and if you don't like it, you can go", all aided by sword, spear, fire and righteous indignation. Reminds me of the Middle East today!  |
| since good ol' bubblegum got us into mythology, I'm gonna have a try! in ancient Egyptian mythology, there was a variety of symbolism with numbers, but none more provident than the pyramids and Horus... we will talk about Horus... Horus's eye is a interesting example of this. The right side of the eye = 1⁄2 The pupil = 1⁄4 The eyebrow = 1⁄8 The left side of the eye = 1⁄16 The curved tail = 1⁄32 The teardrop = 1⁄64 1+2=3 3 is the number of advantage, in which Horus had great advantage, ranging over the sky (and soon the moon...) and becoming one of the most powerful deities in Egyptian mythology (the original ones ((Nun, Ptah, Nefertem, etc do not count...) and controlled many important things in the cycle of life. 1+4=5 5 is the number of unpredictability, the transformation of the shadows of the moon was fairly unpredictable at that time. 1+8=9 9 is the number of accomplishment, Horus gained immense accomplishment when becoming Horus The Elder 1+1+6=8 8 is the number of balance, without Horus and the sky + moon, balance would be eradicated 1+3+2=6 6 is the number of harmony and legend, harmony in which Horus is at equal power with Ra, legend as Horus went from sky to sky+moon 1+6+4=11 1+1=2 this is the most important one, 2 is duality, in which 2 is usually aided by 8, but ignore that :P, there is a duality in which without Horus, there'd be no sky or moon, destroying Ra's true power, same with the other way around. Usually this is solved by the deity Ra-Horakhty/Ra+Horus and I will leave the rest up to you guys :P Atum is with you |
13 The number 13 has a long history of being considered unlucky, sometimes lucky, but mostly unlucky. Some say it's because of Jesus and the 12 apostles, with Judas the betrayer being the 13th member of the group. But it extends far back into history before that. Possibly it relates to the moon's cycles. Since the moon has 28 days in its cycle, calendars based on "lunar months" never worked out quite right. There was always a little something left over - the 13th month. Some years have 13 full moons but most only have 12. The ancient astronomer/priests thought of 13 as an unlucky omen. But Taylor Swift, the pop musician, considers 13 very lucky. She was born on the 13th and even has the number 13 written on her body so it will be with her wherever she goes. |
| Dearly Beloved, 3 years ago my current wife and I flew to Canada as part of the celebrations for our 40th wedding anniversary. Whilst gracing the grateful Canadian people with our presence, we took a 7-day coach tour. The tour visited Toronto, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. I detail these destinations only to allow me to say there was thus a total of 5 major stops. There was also a larger but forgotten number of convenience stops at various nondescript conveniences. There was 50-odd passengers on the coach, some of them very odd indeed. Our on-board tour guide (I mention he was on-board in case you might think he was running along beside the coach) asked us, by way of light relief from all the cultural, economic, industrial, agricultural etc facts and figures with which he was deluging us, to guess the chances of any two of the coach passengers having the same birthday. So the passengers, at least those of us who hadn't lost the will to live, engaged in a brief incoherent discussion and agreed the chances would be low. It turned out there was 3 pairs of passengers who shared the same birthday. Apparently given 50 or more coach passengers the probability of 2 sharing a birthday is over 90%. Indeed given just 23 coach passengers the probability is still over 50%. And they don't even have to be on the coach for this to apply. The formula for calculating the probability of sharing a birthday: Probability (n) = 1 - [(364/365) raised to the power of n(n-1)/2 ] where n is the number of people in group The part of the formula within the [ ] brackets calculates the probability of there being no matches at all. This probability is then subtracted from 1 to leave the probability for matches. The structure of the formula illustrates the typical ass-about-face method of mathematicians. If you ask them to solve this problem they will solve that problem and then convert that problem into this problem. If you asked them for the number of sheep in a field they would (A) calculate the number of sheep in the world then (B) calculate the number of sheep not in that field and then subtract (B) from (A). If they had a hangover they might just settle for counting the sheep legs in the field and dividing by 4. |
| My dad still remembers his first girl friend's phone number from kindergarten 75 years ago. It was 43962 but he is not telling you her name because he is jealous ...you might call her and fix a date. |
| This sort of thing is called a "counting song", rather like the 12 Days of Christmas. It goes like this: I'll sing you ONE - o Green grow the rushes - o What is your ONE - o One is one and all alone and ever more shall be - o This goes up to 12. I won't go through all the iterations because I'd both run out of characters and bore you to tears. However, it ends up: I'll sing you TWELVE -o Green grow the rushes - o What are your TWELVE -o Twelve for the twelve apostles Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven Ten for the Ten Commandments Nine for the nine bright shiners Eight for the April rainers Seven for the seven stars in the sky Six for the six proud walkers Five for the symbols at your door Four for the gospel makers Three, three, the rivals Two, two the lily white boys, clothed all in green - o One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so. The significance of a few of these are obvious, but the rest are lost in a mixture of myth, religion and astronomy. But don't ask me to sing it - that would really put you off! |
| How many zerglings attacked Korhal during the StarCraft wars? They lost count after five million. |
| 4 the greatest (well without numbers like 1, 2, 3, 11, 22, 33...) and most traditional number of all... (well except for 1, 2, and 3) even in places like Korea and China where 4 is considered the number of death, using it in a certain way would still make the traditional reasoning of 4... there are other non traditional ways of using 4, such as a way to display love and happiness (which belong to numbers like 3). and yet it is one of the most used numbers for symbolism, with the infamous 3 way connection between 2, 4, and 8, which is also expressed as 2+(2*2)+(a*b) (a is either 2 or 4, and b is either 2 or 4 in contradiction to a, so if a is 2, b has to be 4.) and this shows a masterful connection between these numbers, it gets worse with numbers like 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc... this is also one of my favorite methods to torture my analysts (pretty sure only like Josh is doing that...) by putting in complex numerology XD maybe next time I should do a joke? |
| I think that I shall never see A tree as lovely as a three; A three can double into six And knows a bunch of other tricks. A three can triple into nine; Don't you know three three's is fine? It takes four threes to make a dozen; Share twelve cupcakes with your cousin. For all the things that three's can do I'm giving one of them to you. Yes, I know there's an endless supply; Must you always see the dark side, guy? It's not the gift that counts, you know It's the thought, the love, the heart, the flow; So I give you the number that is fairest of all, The number voted the belle of the ball, The number even lovelier than a tree! Just remember it was given to you by me. |
4 7 2 17 9 22 Use each of the numbers in the top row one time, adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing to arrive at the number shown below. |
| You've got to be careful with numbers - they can be slippery little suckers. And you have to be very careful how you interpret them. Perhaps the very first arithmetic sum we are ever taught is that 1 + 1 = 2. And we accept that as truth, BUT, it is only true for calculations where the numeration is base 3 or above. In base 2 arithmetic, aka binary numeration, 1 + 1 = 10 Please note, that is NOT ten, but one zero. This is the basis of all computing which requires the answer to a yes/no, up/down, right/wrong, good/bad, on/off question. Using binary notation, any number and any yes/no question can be coded for a computer to recognise in one of its two fundamental, off/on states. For example, the year 2016 will appear as 11111100000 in binary notation. (I hope I've got that right - programming on the bare metal was never one of my skills). |
| How old is the Shadow? Only the Shadow knows. (Well, given that he appeared on radio in 1930 and then in print in 1931, he's at least 85 years old.) |
| Heh heh. Don't ask a girl who has just spent the whole day shopping at a handicrafts fair to write something about NUMBERS. This is what she'll come up with. One skirt (green, embroidered) - Rupees Three hundred and fifty (received as a gift from the friend I'd gone to the fair with) Two kitchen napkins with black and white designs - Rupees sixty each. Big, absorbent. Ten bookmarks carved out on leaves - Rupees twenty each Two greeting cards with golden border - Rupees fifty each Tea, Coffee, idli and vada (latter two being South Indian snacks) - Rupees one hundred and twenty; Tips for waiters - Rupees twenty PS - My friend owns a handicrafts store and was sourcing stuff, so she did a LOT of buying. It's great fun to visit these fairs with her. Today, it rained for some of the time and the fair was outdoors. Great adventure. Had a lovely day. |
| Time is numbers. Without numbers there is no time. But what is it that we are putting numbers to? Despite the fact that we are told that time is "just another dimension" like width, height, and breadth, clearly it is not. You cannot go "three seconds forward and two seconds back", something easy to do in any other "dimension". So what are we measuring with our time numbers? What is a "second"? Yes, I know that "a second is a unit of time" but that's the point: What is "time"? And Albert Einstein made the whole thing even more difficult when he declared that time is relative, that someone speeding away from us will have a "slower" time. He might leave earth and return to find that his twin brother was now much older than himself. Is time possible without numbers? I suppose so if we limit ourselves to "before" and "after"... When did the accident happen? Just before the sun set. When shall we buy a new car? After you get a raise in pay. Of course, once again Einstein has complicated things by declaring that even "before" and "after" depends on who is the observer. And yet, at the bottom right of my monitor screen it says, with seeming great precision, that the current time is 10:42am, May 5, 2016. Ah, numbers! They are so reassuring. |
| Q. What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber? A. Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scalar. (Apparently mathematicians find that joke hilarious) Explanation: The proof is trivial and left to the reader as an exercise. |
| Steev said time is numbers, and he's right. I joined WdC on 23 December 2011 which, by my calculation, was 1,598 days ago. Not much of a number, but that's 38,352 hours ago. Better, but still relatively small. Call it 2,301,120 minutes or 138,067,200 seconds to midnight tonight. So I've still got another 12,600 seconds to go. I'd better make the most of them! |
| When does Death take a vacation? In a million years or so, and maybe not then. Death never takes a day off. |
| So here are various house numbers that I have lived in 30A/2 81. 67A 23/24 155 293 241 not sure what that goes to show you, but it just goes to show you... |
| Did you ever wonder why there were Three Blind Mice? Three Little Pigs? Three Stooges? Three Musketeers? Three Kings of the Orient? Well I did. When Goldilocks found that bear house in the woods, why were there exactly three bears living there? And all the songs and movies... Three Dog Night Once, Twice, Three Times A Lady Three Coins In the Fountain The Third Man Do you know why the foot contains 12 inches instead of ten? Because 12 is evenly divisible by 3 while 10 is not. Why does the minute contain 60 seconds instead of 100? Because 60 is evenly divisible by 3 while 100 is not. Why did Christianity insist on the concept of "The Trinity" even though it is supposedly a monotheistic religion? Why does America have "Three Branches" of Government? Three. It's a number you want to be friendly with. Never make it your enemy. |
An old chap who was hooked on Sudoku Found a puzzle was driving him cuckoo Said his wife, "Oh good heavens! You're at sixes and sevens! Just take five for a nap. That should do you."  |
| My Chinese teacher told us a joke today.... There once was a very pretty maiden, who was being chased by two guys: an engineer and a doctor. Every day, each guy would give her the same present: the doctor, a bunch or roses, and the engineer, an apple. Two years later, still perplexed by the engineer's gift, the girl approached him and asked, "Why do you give me an apple every day?" He told her, "It's been said that 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away,' so I've been giving you an apple every day in the hopes that you'll never need to see a doctor!" |
There are only 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't. 11 cheers for binary! DISCLAIMER: All of the above is PIRATED MATERIAL. |
| I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date, no time to say "Hello, goodbye" I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. Back to the Bible again, this time, and the final book, The Revelation of St John the Divine. Herein are references to the great beast, and in Chapter 13, verse 18, we read, (in the King James version), "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, and his number is six hundred three score and six." That is 666. However, some Greek scholars suggest that the original number of the beast was actually 616. It may be that the number 666 has been substituted for 616 either by analogy with 888, the [Greek] number of Jesus, or because it is a triangular number, the sum of the first 36 numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+...+36 = 666). It is also interesting to note that some authorities suggest there were 666 troops in the Light Brigade as it made its fatal charge along the Valley of Death during the battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. |
| there are now 56 additions to this campire 5+6=11 11 is the master number of intuitiveness, charismaticness, etc... the next one will be the 57th addition 5+7=12 12 is the number of individualistic and unconventional things... 1+2=3 3 is the number of creativity... I am excited for the next one! I feel bad for the 58th one, which is 13 or a karmic debt number of the best advantage of or on death... good luck you 2 :D |
| Someone said something about the number THREE being your friend. I ate THREE dablis yesterday. After that, I had ONE digestive pill. What's a dabeli, you ask? Rightly so. A dabeli is mashed potato and peanuts with lots of spices, in bread. It's completely delicious, but THREE dabelis have to be followed by ONE digestive pill. Burp. |
| Welcome to the 58th addition! *cue dramatic music* As a special feature of this "karmic debt" addition, I have created a Paradox Poll involving numbers. There is only one question in the poll and I urge you to answer it now. I am interested to see the results, but you know how polls are - the more people participate, the better the results will be. And now... the poll!
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| If a picture is worth a thousand words, Dave's face spoke volumes. At this time in the afternoon his regulars were mainly of the one-foot-in-the-grave variety who appreciated peace and quiet. There was zero tolerance for rowdy shenanigans but the decibel level from the three blow-ins at a corner table had been rising steadily and was now in the rowdy zone. The guy was at least two sheets to the wind with his two female companions, who looked like sisters and were dressed to the nines, not far short of one-over-the-eight also. I took a long, meditative pull at my pint and entertained the thought, ménage à trois? More accurately the thought entertained me, perhaps because as my wife claims I have a one-track mind. I'm in two minds about that though. The guy called for one more round of drinks. Zero response from Dave. He called a second time. Nothing. Clearly irritated, he tried for third time lucky. Dave sighed, placed the pint glass he was ostentatiously polishing down on the bar, and said, "The Number One rule in this establishment is that we don't over-serve the customer." The guy looked puzzled but one of the sisters piped up, "Hark at Mr Goody-Two-shoes! Who asked for your two cents?" Having at last worked out what Dave was saying, the guy joined in with, "You looking for a bunch of fives, Sunshine?" Dave placed his hands on the bar counter, his fingers like two large bunches of bananas. He was a amateur boxer whose vicious left hand had earned him the sobriquet 'The One Hit Wonder'. "Well, I can call you a cab or I can dial 999 and ask for an ambulance." The guy took two steps towards the bar but in a hold-me-back kind of way and the so far silent sister grabbed his arm. " Leave it Nigel, this is one crummy dump and he's just not worth it." It took them one or two minutes to gather their belongings and they left with bad grace and language. Floor show over, I finished my pint and headed home myself, pausing only to high-five Dave on the way out. |
I John 1:9 Some numbers are more important than others. #1562731 is the item number to this image: ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** This image contains the numbers to a verse pivotal in my life and in my walk with God. |
| As I was going to St Ives I met a man with 7 wives Every wife had 7 sacks Every sack had 7 cats Every cat had 7 kits Kits, cats, sacks and wives How many were going to St Ives? The temptation is to say, 2,402 being the product of 7 wives, 7 sacks, 7 cats, 7 kits plus the man. Not so. The answer is 1. I was going to St Ives, and you have to accept that both parties were travelling in opposite directions. |
| How many brains do zombies have? Zero, as long as the plants do their job that is. |
| regarding my sound things... let's do something unique with numbers. There is a few ways to convert numbers to sound. using every number that has been said here (1211111267789481313853333113327533126229911111110212347210112233112233112233331415931415926535897932348162844123231433299182736108932399326931089746647990999901089012321505023555505500401500020603550406017302300012141811613216412314518911681326164111121312133405503502902350136436512147543962789102126121112121212111098765432150000004123112233123444332482222425241632641282565121024369124721792211232111020161111110000019301931851350260102025021202032104255201697241722231220111598383522301120138067200302816723241552932413333331233312123106010060310036751011131866661666661688836123456366665556561157571212358132331315815122123452100010229181210231225199912191562731777724927777110) I will convert these into sound below using the program "MathMusic" from http://www.mediafire.com/download/6ib5svdvqjl85g3/MathMusic.rar https://soundcloud.com/not-a-normal-user-at-all-fear-my-orange-tentacles-666-665... this took a lot longer than expected, so I increased the speed by 3... |
| Take TWO crazy females (age 30 and age 48) Take THREE auto-rikshas Take FOUR buses Take ONE museum Take TWO dosas (South Indian meal) at ONE restaurant Take TWO cups of tea Take FOUR Maddur-vadas (South Indian snack in a particular region) in a doggie bag for Dad Take HALF a day and you have ONE HAPPY PICNIC!!!! |
If you have not taken my number poll yet, take it now!
Interesting result so far, but the more people that take it the better the accuracy of the poll. |
My old maths teacher Tom was unique In the way that he dropped off to sleep His particular angle? He used Pascal's Triangle To create a progression of sheep  |
My sixth addition to: "Invalid Item"  .This addition has: "Something to do with numbers." CLICK-----> 5-3-7-8-7 ▼ |
| Let's talk about factorials. Factorials are the product of all positive integers up to and including the number in question and are shown as n! So 5! is 5x4x3x2x1 = 120. Okay, so what. But factorials increase exponentially at an accelerating rate and 10! = 3 628 800. Then 100! = 9.331 621 544 x 10157 and 1 000 000! = 8.263 931 688 x 105 565 708. There is a quaint little story about 13! It is said that there were 13 Roman soldiers on guard at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. To prevent boredom, the Centurion ordered that they should all change places with each other every fifteen seconds. That is, effectively, a permutation of the number 13. If that was the case, they would still be there changing places. 13! = 6 227 020 800. The number of 15 second blocks since 33AD = 4 169 059 200. |
| Dad and I attended a pot luck dinner last night. Burp, excuse me!  Each person has to bring enough food for three people. There were twenty-five people. So there was enough food for .. how many people ... ? You guys do the math. I have to sit here and digest. |
| Here is the final report on my poll. The poll asked this question If I asked you which of the numbers 1 to 5 should be the first choice of this poll, most likely the number "1" would win and be the first choice. But what if I ask you which number will be the second choice? If everyone chooses "2" then 2 will end up being the first choice instead of the second choice. So which number really will be the second choice? 1? 2? 3? 4? or 5? Choose wisely and you may be correct! Which number will be the number in the number 2 spot of the results of this poll? and the results so far are... 4 .... 11 Votes .... 39.3% 3 .... 8 Votes ...... 28.6% 2 .... 4 Votes ...... 14.3% 1 .... 3 Votes ...... 10.7% 5 .... 2 Votes ....... 7.1% Total ... 28 ......... 100% As you can see, it is a battle between 3 and 4 as to which will be in the number 2 spot. I imagine some people thought like this: Probably most people will pick 3, so I'll pick 4 instead. And enough people made that extra thinking step to make 4 the first pick... and therefore wrong one! 3 did indeed end up replacing 2 in the number 2 spot. |
| Who is Number 1 in your life? Are you the boss of your life? In a sense you are but are you the most qualified for the position? Perhaps not. In Proverbs it says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. Seek 1st the kingdom of God... |
| You reckon it's a long way down to the corner shop. Well, it's not really so far when you think of a few cosmic distances. The Moon, our nearest neighbour, which has been visited a few times, is 407,000 kilometres away. Sorry, folks, all figures in km. The Sun is around 150,000,000 km away, but it's light takes only around seven minutes to reach us. Mars varies greatly in distance, between 55,000,000 and 400,000,000 km.and Pluto, that now discredited planet, 7,250,000,000 km. Astronomers measure distance in terms of light years, the distance light will travel in one year. Remember, the sun's light takes only 7 minutes to reach us over its 150 million kms. One light year equals 9.46 x 1012 kilometres. The closes star outside the solar system to Earth, Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light years away. That's a little further than the corner store! |
| DiscWorld is a land supported on the backs of four giant elephants, which stand on the back of an even larger turtle. |
LAST ROUND! I've enjoyed reading all the entries and I hope you have, too. If you have an idea for a campfire similar to this but on a different topic, tell me your idea! This will be your last addition to this campfire... |
| Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Another formula from me. Here goes. ONE omelette. ONE toast (the bread kind). ONE glass of lime juice. ONE cup of coffee. TWO hours at the bookstore-cafe. And you have -- ONE poem, to be read at the next LET POETRY BE (which is a monthly event here in Bangalore, India)! |
Though our number is up we don't grieve It's with smiles that we all take our leave My syntax may be rum But it's up I will sum: That one can always count on our Steev Many thanks!  . |
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| For the last addition to this numerical Campfire, I thought something BIG would be appropriate. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy tells us, "Space, is big. Really big. You just won't belive how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." So I thought I'd expand a bit on my comments in my previous post about stellar distances, and look at some interstellar facts. Distances in space are so big (as Douglas Adams says) that it is difficult for us to understand them. The star system, Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light years away or 4.1 x 1016 metres away. But metres are an inconvenient method of measurement for astronomers, so they talk in terms of parsecs. A parsec is 3.09 x 1016 parsecs distant, so Alpha Centauri is around 1.3 parsecs (say 4.3 light years) away. Now lets expand this a bit. The Milky Way Galaxy, which contains our solar system is estimated to be around 35,000 parsecs across. Deneb is the most distant star that can be seen with the naked eye, at a distance of around 1,550 light years, say 470 parsecs, although estimates of its distance vary up to 900 parsecs. At the end of the range, the Hubble telescope has located a newly forming galaxy at 13.2 billion light years (say 4 billion parsecs), the light from which is now arriving from the time the universe as we know it now was just starting to form. And they say, it's a long way to Tipperary! |
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