I missed a number, now I'm sad.

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You miss your 1969th post, and then Canada beats us in olympic hockey, AND forces us to keep Justin Beiber. Its enough to make you wanna throw yourself off a bridge! Where is the justice? Where is the hope?


I was kinda hopeing to mark my 6000th post but missed it.

though I DID stand up and take notice of someone ELSE hitting- some big round number.

Puddingmouse joined in the brawl on some thread. And I noticed that it happened to be her ten thousandth ( or some number like that) post. So I pm'd her saying "do you realize that that was your ten thousandth post!?" She replied with something like 'meh'.

Some folks just dont get excited about it. Can you imagine?

I suppose some people don't get excited by numbers, even though I think it's odd.

As of right now, your post count is 1981, which is the year I graduated from college.

As of now your post count is the number of keys on a piano.

Unfortunately, 89 has no real significance to me.

Basso53: 89 is thoroughly awesome. It's composed of two digits, which are 2^3 and 3^2 respectively, the symmetry of which makes it a really glistening number. But's also just a bit slippery because it's one less than a multiple of 9 yet one more than a multiple of 8. It's a pale pink and green color and reminds me of the key of B major.

P.S. This ^^^ is the by far the weirdest post I've ever posted on WP. Trust me, I do not have synesthesia, but for some reason I can't not feel these things about the number 89 and I have no clue why.

Have you ever deleted a post before?

If so, it wouldn't have been your 1969th post anyway. One of your previous posts would have been and you just wouldn't have noticed.

Fear not: I made a spreadsheet that can calculate that.
It can calculate any two lines, know if they are parallel or collinear and if they are not, it will calculate the intercept coordinate and never use a division in the calculation. Computationally fast line intercepts. **smack...smack** ok, getting my obsession back under control now

Where the heck have you been?

Hey that's a neat spreadsheet, Greg. I always have this problem when I'm riding my bike and somebody is jaywalking on the diagonal, I can't judge my speed in relation to their progress toward my path. Is there an app for that?

No there isn't wozeree. But it's based on the cross-product calculation of two vectors.

Then you find the determinant of that;
if the determinant is negative then the two vectors never cross.
if the determinant is zero then the two vectors are parallel.
if the determinant is positive then the two vectors cross and it's a quick m=ax2-r1*vx calc to find the distance from the origin that they will cross at.

You'd be able to write your own based on this link. http://geomalgorithms.com/a05-_intersect-1.html

Oh no, I was kidding! I can't do that kind of math! I just use my brakes when I feel there is any danger of us coming close. It'd be kind of hard to use an app on a bike anyway, if you know what I mean.

I think that 89 is also a prime number. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any number that it's evenly divisible by, other than 1???

Now you have me making a mental picture of how I could arrange 5 sharps to look like the number 89.

Ha! I was kidding too wozeree.
I knew an app wouldn't be fast enough to be useful when two moving bodies were in motion and comming together.

But it was fun to be silly.

Basso53, what are these "sharps" you speek of. The only sharps I know of are scalpals. Or perhaps razor blades.

And Bachlover, I was half way through replying to you at work when my machine locked up and crashed repeatedly. Then I got distracted and forgot to reply.

I'm here. I lurk most days and reply to one or two posts only.

I thought he meant sharpies. As in the permanent marker pens.

That's a good one, Greg! I should have known! That page with all that math, ha!