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I was playing a video game earlier and looked down and saw my money at 131,536, and my xp was 65,072.
Interesting numbers.
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I once parked my car and saw that it had gone 131,072 km in total. I instantly laughed when I saw this number. 2^17...
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All numbers are interesting (at least all positive integers are).

Suppose there were such things as "uninteresting" positive integers. Then there would be a smallest uninteresting one. Now that would be an interesting number.
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Last time I went bowling, I ended up with 42 points at the end of the game. Suddenly losing was well worth it.
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Combuster wrote:Suddenly losing was well worth it.
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I always smile and have to publicly announce that the clock is 13:37.
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Jezze wrote:I always smile and have to publicly announce that the clock is 13:37.
is it because 2^3=1+7?
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My current work address has housenumber 142, the new building under construction will have housenumber 42...
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m12 wrote:
Jezze wrote:I always smile and have to publicly announce that the clock is 13:37.
is it because 2^3=1+7?
Well, it's more that it spells 1337. Funny and true story: When I wrote that post, I had no idea I actually posted it exactly at 13:37 in my timezone (+1 UTC with daylight saving)... what do you call that again? A serendipitous moment?
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Jezze wrote:
m12 wrote:
Jezze wrote:I always smile and have to publicly announce that the clock is 13:37.
is it because 2^3=1+7?
Well, it's more that it spells 1337. Funny and true story: When I wrote that post, I had no idea I actually posted it exactly at 13:37 in my timezone (+1 UTC with daylight saving)... what do you call that again? A serendipitous moment?
A coincidence

What is 1337?
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m12 wrote:What is 1337?
My coding skillz, yo.
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I once saw 0x5F3759DF in a register after some mode-switching routine in my kernel init sequence. Had to double check to make sure I didn't #include "q_shared.h"...
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