Useless Numbers

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supervike

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Originally posted by vincegamer
Well, gaming IS my vice....

Six is a special number with unique mathematical qualities.
What is true about 6 that is not true about any other number?
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Kevin Bacon is seperated by six degrees?
 
Duende

Duende

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Originally posted by vincegamer
Six is a special number with unique mathematical qualities.
What is true about 6 that is not true about any other number?
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You just had to make me curious! Well, here\'s some things I found out about your favorite number:

The factors of 6 (1, 2 and 3) add up to six. This makes 6 the first perfect number.

1, 2 and 3 make 6 whether you add them together or multiply them.

Sex- and hex- mean six. So there are six sides on a hexagon and six musicians in a sextet. Sextuplets are six children born together and a hexapod is something with six feet, like an insect.

A cube has six faces and another name for a cube is a hexahedron. Six is the highest number on a normal die. An octahedron has six corners or vertices and a tetrahedron has six edges.

Six-legged arthropods include insects like flies, moths, ants, beetles and wasps.

There are six feet in a fathom. A fathom is a unit of length used mainly by sailors. It equals 1.8288 metres.

Volley ball and ice hockey are both played with teams of 6 players.

King Henry VIII had six wives and there are six murder suspects in a game of Clue.

Hexagonal structures are found in many living things such as the cells of a honey comb. Carbon, the element that is present in all living matter, has the atomic number six.

`Why, sometimes I\'ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast\' exclaimed the White Queen in Lewis Carroll\'s Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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Just for your edification!

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vincegamer

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Well, I was thinking of that first one.

Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of its factors (1x2x3=6)(1+2+3=6).

Those other bits of trivia are pretty cool though.
Six is also a common number in crystas. If I\'m not mistaken, ice crystals, a.k.a. snow flakes, have six arms - or at least the majority do.
 
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dauber22

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hmmmmmmm....

If six is a \"perfect number\" and \"sex-\" means six, does this mean that six is the perfect number for sex ??? Inquiring minds want to know.


Yes, I know it\'s a cheap line, but... hey! I started this thread with no apparent reason. THerefore, I\'m free to drag it into the gutter if I wish to.
:innocent:
 
Duende

Duende

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Originally posted by vincegamer
If sex is six, then what does unisex mean??
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I think dauber had the answer to that! ;)

But I\'m with LP, I like 3:

More little factiods for three:
A triad, triplet, trio, tern or hat-trick...

Tri- means three. So triangles have three sides, tripods have three legs and the dinosaur triceratops had three horns. The French flag is a tricolore because it has three colours. Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics based on measuring triangles.

Three-dimensional means that something has length, width and depth.

There are three school terms in a year.

Oaths are traditionally repeated three times.

A three-legged race is run by two people each with a leg tied to their partner\'s.

The letters A F H K N Y Z are all made up of three lines.

There are three barleycorns in an inch, three feet in a yard, and three miles in a league. Barleycorns and leagues are some old imperial units of length which are no longer used today.

Once upon a time there were three little pigs ... three billy goats gruff ...
Stories often begin this way and have a similar structure. Number one and number two are always similar so the listener is lulled into believing number three will be the same. But with number three there is a twist in the tale.

Most colours can be mixed from just three primary colours. But different primary colours are used for different purposes. For example, all the colours you see on a television screen are mixtures of red, green and blue light. With paint you can mix most colours from just red, yellow and blue pigments. The colours in books and magazines are usually printed from three coloured inks: cyan, magenta and yellow, although black ink is used as well.

We use three primary colours because of the way our eyes work. At the back of our eyes are cells called cones which are sensitive to coloured light. There are three different types of cone, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light. If our eyes were built differently and we had four types of cone cell, we would need to use four primary colours in printing, painting and television.
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Much more interesting than # 6!

And for anyone who may acutally like this stuff, I\'m getting it
HERE.

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supervike

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Originally posted by vincegamer
Good guess, but no.

One of my favorite Onion headlines:
Kevin Bacon Linked to AlQada!
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ACK...I thought Al Qada folks didn\'t use pork....

lollollol

@dendawg...deedeedee moment indeed!
 
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vincegamer

Active member
Originally posted by Duende
The French flag is a tricolore because it has three colours.

*(this always struck me as odd since the US and British flags each have 3 colors too - the same 3 - but only the French is the tricolor. No one called the Russian or Spanish or Swiss flag the bicolor....)

At the back of our eyes are cells called cones which are sensitive to coloured light.

*(then there are those of us with octogons in our eyes. We can see octorine)
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