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#1 2011-05-03 16:31:11
1089
Does anyone know this number's significance?
Also, today our Honors English Comp. teacher said we were going to do something fun. So we played this game in which each person thinks of the longest or most unusual word they can. The longest and the most unusual gets a prize. She also picked one honorable mention for each. I won longest. Floccinaucinihilipilification, the act of calling something worthless. My friend Isaac(badger) won most unusual, with tyrotoxism, which I didn't even know until he told me that it means "to be poisioned by cheese." The honorable mention for the longest was "Antitransubstantiationalist," which means you don't believe that Communion is the actual body and blood of Christ. The teacher liked it because Claude wrote an essay on the differences between prodestants and catholics and the word was used. It really was kinda impressive, since Claude's essay was 7 pages long, the 2nd longest in the class, and most people had zoned out about halfway through. I can't remember the honorable mention for most unusual though.
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#2 2011-05-03 16:37:43
- brettman98
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Re: 1089
Sounds interesting. The most unusual word I know is butwink which is a type of bird, and hagbutt which is a Native American firearm 
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#6 2011-05-03 16:47:14
- scratcher7_13
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Aah, my favorite number. Choose a three-digit number (no triple digit numbers). Reverse it and subtract the smaller number from the larger number. Then reverse the resulting number. (84 would be 480.) Add the two numbers together. Post your solution.
♫ 90% of teens can't do math. If you are one of the 40% of teens who can, copy and paste this into your signature. ♫♪
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#7 2011-05-03 16:48:51
Re: 1089
scratcher7_13 wrote:
Aah, my favorite number. Choose a three-digit number (no triple digit numbers). Reverse it and subtract the smaller number from the larger number. Then reverse the resulting number. (84 would be 480.) Add the two numbers together. Post your solution.
^^^this^^^
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#8 2011-05-03 16:49:07
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Re: 1089
echs wrote:
Does anyone know this number's significance?
Pick a three digit number. The three numbers used must be different*. i.e. 123 Reverse that number. 123 becomes 321
Take the smallest three digit number from the largest.
321 - 123 = 198 Take the answer and reverse that number. 198 becomes 891
Add that number to the answer of the subtraction. 891 + 198 = 1089
The answer will be 1089!
scratcher7_13 wrote:
Aah, my favorite number. Choose a three-digit number (no triple digit numbers). Reverse it and subtract the smaller number from the larger number. Then reverse the resulting number. (84 would be 480.) Add the two numbers together. Post your solution.
Beat me to it...
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#9 2011-05-03 16:49:59
Re: 1089
SpriteMaster wrote:
echs wrote:
Does anyone know this number's significance?
Pick a three digit number. The three numbers used must be different*. i.e. 123 Reverse that number. 123 becomes 321
Take the smallest three digit number from the largest.
321 - 123 = 198 Take the answer and reverse that number. 198 becomes 891
Add that number to the answer of the subtraction. 891 + 198 = 1089
The answer will be 1089!
you're too late, scratcher7_13 got it already.
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#10 2011-05-03 16:50:15
- SpriteMaster
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Re: 1089
echs wrote:
SpriteMaster wrote:
echs wrote:
Does anyone know this number's significance?
Pick a three digit number. The three numbers used must be different*. i.e. 123 Reverse that number. 123 becomes 321
Take the smallest three digit number from the largest.
321 - 123 = 198 Take the answer and reverse that number. 198 becomes 891
Add that number to the answer of the subtraction. 891 + 198 = 1089
The answer will be 1089!you're too late, scratcher7_13 got it already.
I know -_-
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#12 2011-05-03 17:13:34
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Gatsby wrote:
1089 is approximately the year in which my math teacher was born
ololololololo hes an old sport.
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#15 2011-05-03 19:49:32
- Earthboundjeff
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Uh...was it the downfall of feudalism and the rebirth of the arts?
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