Earth Simulator delights scientists

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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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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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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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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.