MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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when did threads go 35 to the page from 40?
Its all about the cuts in here these days isn't it?
Its also far less numerically comfy. 35 has only four factors where as 40 has a much more pleasing eight.
I think all the panic reading over the last few days has lead to a shortage of pages so we're beign rationed.
[edit] [i]Its also far less numerically comfy. 35 has only four factors where as 40 has a much more pleasing eight. [/i] good to see the OCD's still there 😉
I know what you mean about the factors. If it was 37 posts per page I would be most uncomfortable.
Question is: is there a 35th post glitch?
Less topics to the page means more pages - and therefore more ads being served up....
Does that mean the magical missing 40th posts will now start at 35?
I think it's started at the 4th post now druidh 🙂
If it was 37 posts per page I would be most uncomfortable.
Id have to ignore the 37th post, as 36 would give 9 factors. And all would be well.
Personally Id prefer it to be 28, as its a perfect number. The next one, 496, I think is a bit too unwieldy
The next one, 496, I think is a bit too unwieldy
Not with TJ back from his spell on the naughty step, it isn't.
Some idiots said something stupid
I'd like to see a random number of posts per page - not completely randon, that'd be daft. Maybe between 25 and 50, but only odd numbers
Primes on some days as a special treat (or to drive stoner out do do some riding - or even work 😯 )
gah!
Less topics to the page means more pages - and therefore more ads being served up...
Les? LESS? It's [b]fewer[/b], not [b]less[/b]....aaaaaarrrghhh!
[i]It's fewer, not less[/i]
Maybe they're trying to make us use less data in each post and that saved a whole 8 bytes, right there 😉
or is it fewer data
less datum
fewer datum
less datas
fewer datas?
just to check - is "wunundred !" (with a little dancing gif) still valid or can 97 replace it ?
You boys need to
1. Think about this stuff less
2. Drink less (fewer?) cups of coffee
😆
Hold on, is it a VAT thing, like weaker beers 'n' shit ?
I'd like to pay fewer VAT(s?) on my posts
how the hell does 35 have 4 factors? 5*7=...?
I opened this thread expecting to be able to mock forum members outing themselves as dwarves.
Much disappointment.
how the hell does 35 have 4 factors? 5*7=...?
More importantly does it have the X factor?
how the hell does 35 have 4 factors? 5*7=...?
35 & 1 ? Just a guess, bearing in mind I thought 6 was the only perfect number so I'm probably wrong.
1+2+3=6
1x2x3=6
Prime factors of 5 and 7. Cheating to include 1 and 35 in my book 😉
Cheating to include 1 and 35 in my book
Excluding them is logical laziness 😉
MTQG:
The first eight perfect numbers are 6, 28, 496, 8128, 33550336, 8589869056, 137438691328, 2305843008139952128.
and
if a perfect number is even it WILL be of the form q×2p?1, where q is prime.
thanks to Euler. p is prime.
40 has a much more pleasing eight
Surely 60 would be a good choice then with twelve factors?
(1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30,60)
Surely 60 would be a good choice then with twelve factors?
and hence our hour and babylonian base 60
I believe they've switched to Solar PV to power the forum, and it's gone cloudy, so on reduced running now.
Would never have happened when it was nuke powered!
The question is, have they fixed the glitchy bump whilst they're at it?
and hence our hour and babylonian base 60
You are a Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg listener and I claim my £5. 😀
nope, I read Marcus Du Sautoy 😉
I cant keep up with the nasal one. I need time to re-read things half a dozen times.
If the forum was Scottish, the hamsters would be deep fried.
FACT.
If the forum was scottish, everything would be a pasty white colour.... oh, wait....
Ah, thought you might have been listening to this earlier in the week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dvw6t
(oh dear. I seem to have accidentally outed myself 😳 )
cheers G. podcast downloaded for the commute next week.
as fair exchange, can I recommend:
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ooh looks interesting. Ta Stoner.
(Daily Mail approved too - surely there is no higher accolade!)
Ah, perfect is just sum of the factors I thinkJust a guess, bearing in mind I thought 6 was the only perfect number so I'm probably wrong.
1+2+3=6
1x2x3=6
Maybe 6 is also an AWESOME !! number because it's a product of its factors
2^2 * 3^2
= 6^2 bdum tish (+1)
fermat would have been proud 😉