Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by bystander » Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:44 pm

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Post by owlice » Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:23 pm

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Both prime.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:52 pm

Hey owlice, is 252515144 a prime number :?:
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by BMAONE23 » Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:15 pm

Beyond wrote:Hey owlice, is 252515144 a prime number :?:
obviously not. Other than 2, all following even numbers aren't prime
But 252515143 is prime

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Post by owlice » Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:47 pm

BMAONE23 wrote: But 252515143 is prime
You might be my new favorite person!!
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:24 pm

Aw heck :!: i missed being prime by one number.

B=2
e=5
y=25
o=15
n=14
d=4

However, if i change to ::Beyonc::, then i would be prime. :lol2:
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Post by owlice » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:30 pm

Oh, that was cute, Beyond! And your name doesn't have to be prime when you are!
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:57 pm

I've been tickled to :content:ment by the feathery words of an owl in her prime. :yes:
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Post by BMAONE23 » Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:01 am

Owltemus Prime?

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by BMAONE23 » Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:03 am

Beyond wrote:Aw heck :!: i missed being prime by one number.

B=2
e=5
y=25
o=15
n=14
d=4

However, if i change to ::Beyonc::, then i would be prime. :lol2:
That would be really close to Beyonce'

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:57 am

To e', or not to e', is definitely NOT the question :!: :no: :lol2:
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by makc » Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:15 pm

makc wrote:total number of vowels on this page is odd.
it is now even.

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:29 pm

It's not even where i am yet. It's late afternoon. Nothing odd about that. :no:
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by BMAONE23 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:15 pm

You have 24 odds and ends on a table.
If 23 of them fell off, what would you have left?
an odd end

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:25 pm

What would you have left?
Not much :!:
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by makc » Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:16 am

oh look, you can not nest these
lol

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:42 pm

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I do like those primes!

(I'm not proud of them, though. :D)
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by geckzilla » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:30 pm

Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:49 pm

Oh, that's really interesting; thanks. Since they are such huge numbers, I think I'm safe; too many digits for the tingling sensation!
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Nitpicker » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:21 pm

geckzilla wrote:Better watch out, owlice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
It is a source of constant disappointment to me that the legal profession has no issue with making certain numbers illegal, or patenting genes, or patenting mathematical algorithms, etc, etc, etc.

We are a flawed species.

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Chris Peterson » Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:55 pm

Nitpicker wrote:It is a source of constant disappointment to me that the legal profession has no issue with making certain numbers illegal, or patenting genes, or patenting mathematical algorithms, etc, etc, etc.

We are a flawed species.
And lawyers especially so.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Nitpicker » Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:25 am

Some of my best friends are lawyers. I reckon that makes me flawed too.

The alternative is perfection, which also has its down side.

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Chris Peterson » Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:29 am

Nitpicker wrote:Some of my best friends are lawyers. I reckon that makes me flawed too.

The alternative is perfection, which also has its down side.
There is only one state of perfection, but an entire spectrum of flawed. I guess we need to look at where people lie along that spectrum.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Nitpicker » Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:34 am

Chris Peterson wrote:There is only one state of perfection ...
That statement is too subjective for my taste.

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:19 am

What are the chances that two of the three main statistics on the Asterisk home page (Total posts, total topics, total members) are prime numbers at any given time? As has happened in the past, tonight I noticed that two of them were prime (Total posts 132721 • Total topics 12577); it's inevitable that this circumstance should occur, but how often?
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