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Share a story of how a positive integer changed your life....
- 09-20-2005 #1Linux Guru
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Where would we be without positiveintegers?
Like, for example 1337?
Share a story of how a positive integer changed your life./IMHO
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Ok I will start the ball rolling. At Uni, I had a tutorial to prepare, I can't remmember the details but there was an implicit assumption : If a > 0 and b > 0 then (a + b) > 0. It is so obvuous I didn't even mention that as an assumption!
Anyway, all my work being finished, I go to the student Union to relax and chill out. When I return, I of course a give my tutorial a quick "coup d'oiel." At this point everything went to the dogs.
I am looking at the tutorial and start to think, mmm this needs to be proved! How would you go about doing that, mmm is it realy true! mmmm! Within a few minutes, I was certain that I could prove by contradiction that it was in fact false!
About six hours later, several gallons of coffee and a big black plastic bag full of waste paper, I suddemly realized exactly what it was it was trying to do
The thing is, I still cant look at this this theorem without thinking mmmm
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Can you imagine what the Universe would be like if it was false
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http://www.positiveintegers.org/666
If you want a Linux context, try chmod 666 for a file.I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
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Isn't 666 the devils number
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Originally Posted by fingal http://www.positiveintegers.org/666
If you want a Linux context, try chmod 666 for a file.
Interesting. In base 29, according to that site fingal linked: Originally Posted by cheetahman
666 = MS
Oh wait! No! I'm going to have to mod myself. LOL.Registered Linux user #270181
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interesting. *strokes beard* very interesting.
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Don't you mean 29 Originally Posted by techieMoe \"TTFN Taa Taa For Now\" by Tigger in Winnie the Pooh
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You are correct. Duly edited. Originally Posted by cheetahman Don't you mean 29 Originally Posted by techieMoe 
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To paraphrase the Book of Revelation: "The number of the Beast is Six Threescore and Six." Originally Posted by cheetahman Isn't 666 the devils number
And "Bill Gates III", when translated into ASCII values, is 666 (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist).DISTRO=Arch
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is'nt the number suposed to be 616 now
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