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#1 2011-01-03 19:36:33
Special Numbers
0- Absolutely nothing.
0.25- One Quarter
0.5- One Half
0.125- One Eighth
0.0625- One Sixteenth
0.99- A common ending for prices, used to fool people into thinking it cost less
1- The first number, and the number of cents in a penny
3- A lucky number, the number of sides in a triangle.
3.14- Pi
4- An unlucky number, the number of sides in a square
5- The number of cents in a nickel, the number of sides in a pentagon
6- The number of sides in a hexagon
7- A lucky number, the number of sides in a heptagon
8- The number of sides in an octogon
9- The number of sides in a nonagon
10- The number of cents in a dime, the number of sides in a decagon, first double digit number, most perfect number
13- An unlucky number, first teen year
16- Considered the 'best' age in teenhood. (Sweet Sixteen)
20- The first age of adulthood.
25 - The number of cents in a quarter
42- The answer to life, the universe, and everything
90- The measurement of a right angle
180- The angle sum of a triangle
360- The angle sum of a quadrilateral
666- The number of the devil
911- Canadian/American Emergency Number
999- British Emergency Number
1337- LEET SPEAK
2011- Current Year
2012- Estimated time of the apocalypse
9000- A common Meme number. ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!
43110- Hello!
Googol- A very large number, also used in a search engine
∞ - Infinity
Tell me any others.
I WILL NOT ALLOW:
-Numbers from usernames
-Your favorite number
-Your birthdate
-Any more word written in 1337
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#2 2011-01-03 19:39:00
- bananaman114
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Re: Special Numbers
3104466- call this number to order a awesome pizza.
the sun still shines
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#4 2011-01-03 19:39:52
#5 2011-01-03 19:40:16
Re: Special Numbers
111,111,111 times itself equals 12,345,678,987,654,321
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#7 2011-01-03 19:44:04
Re: Special Numbers
kimmy123 wrote:
ihaveamac wrote:
111,111,111 times itself equals 12,345,678,987,654,321
Try it.
Either 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 or 111,111,111 ^ 2. Use a calculator.
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#8 2011-01-03 19:54:22
Re: Special Numbers
72 - from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
Supposedly God's number or something. The Pentawhatzahousa. Maybe it's an extension or something.
Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Closer To God, The Downward Spiral, Further Down The Spiral, The Perfect Drug, The Fragile, And All That Could Have Been, With Teeth, Year Zero, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Ghosts I-IV, The Slip, Pretty Hate Machine 2010
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#9 2011-01-03 19:57:32
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#10 2011-01-03 20:10:45
- SeptimusHeap
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Re: Special Numbers
911 is the USA's emergency number, too. Also, 18 is when you're considered an adult in the US.
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#11 2011-01-03 21:02:26
Re: Special Numbers
SeptimusHeap wrote:
911 is the USA's emergency number, too.
This. Pfft. Canadians, tryin' to steal our emergency numbers
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#13 2011-01-04 00:11:04
- throughthefire
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Re: Special Numbers
You forgot 9001. It's special because it's OVER 9000!!!!!!!!
Back. For now. Maybe.
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#16 2011-01-04 05:59:22
Re: Special Numbers
wiimaster wrote:
Googol- A very large number, also used in a search engine
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - Precision is necessary.
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#17 2011-01-04 06:00:42
Re: Special Numbers
SeptimusHeap wrote:
911 is the USA's emergency number, too..
I never knew that. I get thicker everyday...
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#18 2011-01-04 06:20:21
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Re: Special Numbers
I suggest you replace "the angle sum of a parallelogram" with "the angle sum of a quadrilateral".
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#19 2011-01-04 07:58:42
- AtomicBawm3
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Re: Special Numbers
6.667x10^23- conversion number for moles to atoms, molecules.
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#20 2011-01-04 08:06:46
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#21 2011-01-04 08:19:03
Re: Special Numbers
AtomicBawm3 wrote:
6.667x10^23- conversion number for moles to atoms, molecules.
Actually it is 6.02*10^23... Avogadros number.
The Divine Proportion: 1.618033988749895
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#22 2011-01-05 07:59:10
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Re: Special Numbers
AtomicBawm3 wrote:
6.667x10^23- conversion number for moles to atoms, molecules.
It's 6.022142×10^23... and it's called Avogadro number, by the way.
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#23 2011-01-05 08:19:44
Re: Special Numbers
43110 :p
Darn, it won't capitalize!
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