TLPTP WINS THREAD ... err ... dunno ... what is 26 good for ?

anniet
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It's cold here too. And

It's cold here too. And exceedingly wet, but nice to see everyone :)

 

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the fifth of five

Oh. Your experience comes from the receiving end. I owe you an apology, Mike.

My apologies, Mike. 

There! :)

 

*turn attention to other matters*

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Annie should like 387420489.  it is 9^9

It looks a mess doesn't it - but it really really isn't :) Interestingly, if you square-root that and divide it by an aeroplane... you get 26... ... and a 132millionth

which amazed me no end when I found it out.

 

 

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Chris S
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Ah yes, 387420489.Sq Rt

Ah yes, 387420489.

Sq Rt divided by a Boeing 757 does indeed give you 26.  The 132millionth is a rumour and urban myth.

Also it is an odd composite number. It is composed of a single prime number multiplied by itself seventeen times.

387420489

 

 

 

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anniet
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Chris S_2 wrote: It is

Chris S_2 wrote:
It is composed of a single prime number multiplied by itself seventeen times.

...which is that prime number squared less than 26 *quirk eyebrows* I know. I found out the 26th one is tied up with Dalmatians somehow...

 

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Chuck Conners was accurate out to 2 or 3 miles !

Perhaps it would be better to run in them then... ?

 

edit: maybe for 2.6 miles...?

 

 

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MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
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Well sometimes it seemed like

Well sometimes it seemed like Lucas McCain had 26 shots with his custom 44-40 modified Winchester rifle Cool

The Rifleman is still on tv here for an hour every day of the week.

There is a guy that still makes and sells them.

Somebody must have spent a lot of time making this video

Chris S
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I found out the 26th one is

I found out the 26th one is tied up with Dalmatians somehow...

That would be 101,  or errrr later 102 .....

 

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CONGRATS Mike!!!!!  Good

CONGRATS Mike!!!!!  Smile

Good afternoon everyone.  Smile

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Mike Hewson
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anniet wrote:.... I owe you

anniet wrote:
.... I owe you an apology, Mike .....

It's all cool. Actually there is much truth to birth order hypotheses. Exceptions for sure. If you watch David Attenborough etc there's this cuckoo that lays the egg in another birds nest, as it does, and that cuckoo egg hatches a few crucial days early. The young cuckoo then tips out the unhatched host species eggs ( down, down, down .... splat ! ) when the adults are away. Now that gives me the willies, hair up the back of the neck type of feeling. 

anniet wrote:
anniet wrote:
Annie should like 387420489.  it is 9^9

It looks a mess doesn't it - but it really really isn't :) Interestingly, if you square-root that and divide it by an aeroplane... you get 26... ... and a 132millionth

which amazed me no end when I found it out.

I stand in boggled awe at that revelation too. I'll join in and say that 757 is a palindrome. Probably lands at Palindrome Aerodrome.

As for Mr Connors well he is the master of the hip shot for sure.

Cheers, Mike.

( edit ) This Tesla AI demo easily drives better than 90% of the population, hands down ! In mist & low light but its radars pick up, say, the two pedestrians on that right-going curve and even gives them 'stupidity' margin .... :-)

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

David S
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The 26th of December is

The 26th of December is celebrated in the British Commonwealth as Boxing Day. [KLINGER: Who's fighting?] However, it is not here. This leaves the questions of why, with all the subjects of Her Majesty 'round 'ere, it took a Yank 'Murrican to mention it.

The 26th of November is this Saturday, and is the first day of the museum's Happy Holiday Railway event.

Which reminds me: I don't think I mentioned that a couple of Saturdays back, I went out to help with the restoration of one of the cars used for that train. I scraped gunk off the window openings so they would be smooth when the windows were installed. Then I sanded green crud that I don't want to think about, especially how much of it I inhaled, off the window frames before they were installed. I also scraped a bit of paint off the ceiling and really don't want to know if it contained lead. This confirmed that I hate doing this kind of work. But doing most of it sitting down made the faint warm glow of doing something useful almost worth it.

David

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Chris S
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It didn't take a Yank to

It didn't take a Yank to mention it David, it took me a polite Englishman not to mention that 26th December, Boxing Day, is my birtthday :-)

Boxing day comes from the 17C custom when servants, tradesmen, errand boys etc would traditionally receive gifts known as a "Christmas box" from their masters, employers or customers for their service during the year. 

 

 

 

 

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David S
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My sympathies.

My sympathies.

David

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