ATAR Notes: Forum
General Discussion => Lifestyle and Entertainment => General Discussion Boards => Forum Games and Casual Chat => Topic started by: RuiAce on December 02, 2017, 05:19:33 pm
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...and it's up to you to figure out why.
(Try to keep it not-mathsy related unless it's actually a good mathsy reason.)
1 - The numeric value of TRUE in many programming languages
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2- It takes TWO to tango
(iirc the only even prime number :P )
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3 - "Third time's the charm"
(Number of sides on a triangle, and triangles can be used to build any (straight) plane shape)
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Four- One of the characters from the book/movie franchise Divergent.
(The number of vertices in a square/rectangle/rhombus/diamond)
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Five - the number of blocks for subject mods, Nat mods, and admins.
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Six - the smallest perfect number.
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7 the most "magical number"
i.e. hence 7 horcruxes
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8 - The number of allotropes of carbon.
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9 - the highest single-digit number in the decimal system.
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10 - The number of plagues inflicted upon Egypt
(The basis of the metric system)
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11 - one of the main characters from stranger things!!!
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/f705f610e6c20b9020456f904474dfd9/tumblr_obmpxuc4DE1ufj51so3_r1_250.gif)
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12 -
(https://www.travelonline.com/victoria/attractions/12-apostles/12-apostles-11504.jpg)
The Twelve Apostles - Victoria
Beautiful sight.
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13 - the unlucky number
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14 - the day HSC results are released this December
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^ on a similar note:
15 - Vic SS/ATAR and NSW ATAR release date
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14 - the day HSC results are released this December
^ on a similar note:
15 - Vic SS/ATAR and NSW ATAR release date
Geezus you guys......
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16 - Number of pawns in a standard chess set
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17 - the dancing queen's age
"You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet, only seventeen"
(so iconic)
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18 - in Jewish liturgy, the number 18 represents the Amidah, a form of prayer.
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19 - The size of a (side of a) Go board
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20(th August). My birthday ;D
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20(th August). My birthday ;D
In the same vein, 21 is the birthday many are considered to become true adults... and bring out the most embarrassing photos for good measure of humility. ;) (This seems to be mostly true to USA and a few other countries.)
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22- the title of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgFeZr5ptV8
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23- the result of 23! has 23 digits
(It's 25852016738884976640000 btw, and yes this is a little mathsy but hopefully it passes as "good")
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24, the number of hours in a day
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25- the 3rd studio album by Adele
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23- the result of 23! has 23 digits
(It's 25852016738884976640000 btw, and yes this is a little mathsy but hopefully it passes as "good")
Not gonna lie - This has been the best math related one so far.
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26 - Number of complete miles in a marathon
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27 - the only positive number that is exactly 3 times the sum of its digits (that is: 27 = 3*(2+7))
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28 - Days in February in non-leap years
(The second perfect number)
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29- a sum of three consecutive squares 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2
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30 - The total number of major and minor keys
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31 - the highest number of days in a month
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32 - Sydney is predicted to grow in poulation by 32% in the next 15 years
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33 - Days Pope John Paul I served as Pope
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34 - the number of letters in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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35 - 35% of bingo players are under the age of 35
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36 - the smallest triangular square number other than 1
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37 - Average normal human's body temperature in degrees celcius
(when did anyone say we had to go in order of numbers?? ;))
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37 - Average normal human's body temperature in degrees celcius
(when did anyone say we had to go in order of numbers?? ;))
The game's too boring when you mix up the order
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38 - Number of slots on an American roulette wheel
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39 - atomic number of Yttrium
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39 - atomic number of Yttrium
>:(
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40 - The highest number ever counted to on Sesame street
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41- Motzart's last symphony was Symphonny 41
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42- the meaning of life ;)
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43 - The maximum number of multi-tile moves required to finish the 15 puzzle
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44- Barack Obama was the 44th president of the USA
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45 - Michael Jordan's shirt number when he played baseball and for 22 nba games in 1995.
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46 - The number of human chromosomes
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47 - The number of degrees between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn or at least really close to
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48 - Brisbane accounts for 48% of Queensland's economy
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49 - 7 squared
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49 - 7 squared
>:(
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50 - Number of states of the U.S.A.
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51: Often enough, Australia is referred to as the 51st state :)
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52 - Most common number of weeks in a year
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53: The bus route from Bendigo Station to Eaglehawk
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54: Number of cards in a standard deck WITH jokers
\[\sin 54^\circ = \frac12\times \text{Golden ratio} \]
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55: the typical age insurance agencies ask if you're over in their ads.
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56 - Elvis Presley CD "Elvis '56"
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57 - the number of people that turned up to Blacktown City Libraries "wow it's Italian pasta" event
(Sorry for the lame factor, this was a hard one)
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58 - "58 is like the luckiest number ever." Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants
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59 - The largest number of seconds or minutes that you can have before having a whole minute or hour respectively.
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60- number of seconds in a minute :P
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61 - International calls to Australia begin with +61
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62 is a nontotient number
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63: Sixty-three (card game)
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64 - the number of possible codons (Biology was bound to infiltrate this.)
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65 - Standard age of retirement
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Route 66- famous American highway
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67- an irregular prime
Just realised how slow my internet is!!! >:( >:(
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68 - The construction of a 68-sided regular polygon is doable via a compass and ruler
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69: No explanation needed. :o
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69: No explanation needed. :o
Mate. 69 is the best number in existence. It's the largest number whose factorial can be computed on a typical CASIO fx-82 AU PLUS II calculator without causing a math error.
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70: Common number of years for which copyright is valid without expiry
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a typical CASIO fx-82 AU PLUS II calculator
I own one of these lmao.
71- A thriller film released in 2014,
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72 - Room temperature in the Fahrenheit scale
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73- the number on Sheldon Cooper's shirt. 😂
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74 - Number of stars obtained by SpongeBob SquarePants in his driving school
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75- the name of the album by Joe Zawinul :)
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76ers (Basketball team)
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77- A Spanish hard rock band
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78 - In the Twelve Days of Christmas, a total of 78 gifts are given
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79AD- the year Mount Vesuvius erupted
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80 - a cafe on the ground floor of UTS' Chau Chak wing building
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81 - Number of obstacles the fictional Xuanzang had to face in Journey to the West
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damn I missed 81 :( anyway 81 - kobe's career high points in a game (2nd all time). (got both his jerseys retired today)
82 - number of games in the regular season for each team in the nba
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83- The number of hours Charles Kingsford Smith took to fly across the pacific from Oakland, California to Brisbane, Queensland
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84 - Number of Earth years Uranus takes to orbit the sun
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'85 (1985): The second year in a row that Hawthorn lost an AFL grand final.
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86: Getting rid of something by burying it, ejecting someone, or refusing service (American English slang)
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87: The "devil's number" in cricket (13 runs short of a century).
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88: The atomic number of the element radium.
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88: The atomic number of the element radium.
Also wanted to add, another reason 88 is special is because there are 88 constellations in the sky!
89 is the number that no one has been able to reach for the number of times a stone skips on water (the record is 88).
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90: the code for the French département Belfort.
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91: palindromic in bases 3 \((10101_3)\), 9 \((111_9)\), and 12 \((77_{12})\).
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92: The code for international direct dial phone calls to Pakistan.
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93: A number that is said to mean agape (love) in the Greek tradition isopsephy, a thing where you add the number values of letters in a word to form one number.
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94: Amount of graphics, non-whitespace ASCII characters
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95: Lightning McQueen's number
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96: The tram to the beach. ;D