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    Earth Simulator delights scientists

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3152564.stm

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    The Earth Simulator, housed in Japan, has produced what scientists are calling "very exciting" information.

    It is being presented at a three-day climate workshop in Cambridge, UK. The computer's results hold out the prospect of better predictions of the likelihood of increasing hurricanes, prolonged heavy rain, and heatwaves.

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    After reading the title and the first paragraph I was waiting to hear that the ultimate question was "Wha is 6 x 7."
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    Quote Originally Posted by silencio
    After reading the title and the first paragraph I was waiting to hear that the ultimate question was "Wha is 6 x 7."
    Isn't it "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?"

    To which the answer is, of course, 42.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a d e p t
    Isn't it "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?"

    To which the answer is, of course, 42.
    Did he say six by nine? LOL! I never caught that.
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    I thought you had just mistyped.

    Yes, Ford Prefect reads this off when Arthur Dent is picking letters out of the Scrabble bag.
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    And a bit of trivia: Why is 6x9=42?

    The answer: count in Base 13.
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    Quote Originally Posted by paraflyer
    And a bit of trivia: Why is 6x9=42?

    The answer: count in Base 13.
    define 'SIX' as 1+5
    define 'NINE' as 8+1

    SIX * NINE will follow order of operations

    1+5*8+1 = 42
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    Speaking of math fun, did you ever notice that all the multiples of 9 add up to 9 when you add the individual numbers until you reach a single digit. For example:

    9 = 18 (1 + 8)
    9 = 27 (2 + 7)
    36
    45
    54
    63
    72
    81
    90
    99 (9 + 9 = 18 1 + 8 = 9) //this is where you keep adding until you get a single digit.
    108
    etc.

    I thought this was curious because it doesn't work for the other numbers. They do other interesting things.

    16, 1 + 6 = 7
    24, 2 + 4 = 6
    32, 3 + 2 = 5
    40, 4 + 0 = 4
    48, 4 + 8 = 12, 1 + 2 = 3
    56, 5 + 6 = 11, 1 + 1 = 2
    64, 6 + 4 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1
    72, 7 + 2 = 9
    80, 8 + 0 = 8

    So it goes 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9 8
    7
    14, 4 + 1 = 5
    21, 3
    28, 1
    35, 8
    42, 6
    49, 4 + 9 = 13, 1 + 3 = 4
    56, 2
    63, back to 9

    etc... I'm really bored... time for warcraft.
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