Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:52 am
That's ^^^^ just gross! 
I'm going with 122.
I'm going with 122.
Well that makes sense -- I know a dachshund named Bob Barker.
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Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:13 am
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:26 am
300. Zoom room full and people waiting to get it. You heard it here first.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:56 am
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 12:25 pm
I say we max out at least at some point during the presentation - 300.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:59 pm
99. And if the prize is jellybeans they obviously should be in some sort of mug.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:31 pm
181 (my favorite number on account of its being symmetrical horizontally and vertically. And prime.)
The mug will go to whomever is closest to the number of participants on the Zoom call at 7:35, with any tie being determined by coin toss or dice roll.
We're all about the mug!! I picked this up a while ago thinking it would make a nice prize for something on the forum. This seems as good a reason to award it as any.
The mug will go to whomever is closest to the number of participants on the Zoom call at 7:35, with any tie being determined by coin toss or dice roll.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:13 pm
Get out of my head, Brian!
I chose 163 because it is a strong prime number, a lucky prime number, it is a fortunate number, it is a strictly non-palindromic number (since it is not palindromic in any base between base 2 and base 161), it returns 0 in the Mertens function, it is the largest of the nine Heegner numbers, it is the number of Z-independent McKay-Thompson series for the monster group and might be a clue for understanding monstrous moonshine, it is a permutable prime in base 12 (which it is written as 117, the permutations of its digits are 171 and 711, the two numbers in base 12 is 229 and 1021 in base 10, both of them are primes), and it is the lowest number that cannot be shot with three darts on a standard dart board.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:37 pm
This explains a lot. I am definitely in the wrong league.Joe Ross wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:13 pmGet out of my head, Brian!
I chose 163 because it is a strong prime number, a lucky prime number, it is a fortunate number, it is a strictly non-palindromic number (since it is not palindromic in any base between base 2 and base 161), it returns 0 in the Mertens function, it is the largest of the nine Heegner numbers, it is the number of Z-independent McKay-Thompson series for the monster group and might be a clue for understanding monstrous moonshine, it is a permutable prime in base 12 (which it is written as 117, the permutations of its digits are 171 and 711, the two numbers in base 12 is 229 and 1021 in base 10, both of them are primes), and it is the lowest number that cannot be shot with three darts on a standard dart board.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:52 pm
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:52 pm
OK, you win the nerd contest.Joe Ross wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:13 pmGet out of my head, Brian!
I chose 163 because it is a strong prime number, a lucky prime number, it is a fortunate number, it is a strictly non-palindromic number (since it is not palindromic in any base between base 2 and base 161), it returns 0 in the Mertens function, it is the largest of the nine Heegner numbers, it is the number of Z-independent McKay-Thompson series for the monster group and might be a clue for understanding monstrous moonshine, it is a permutable prime in base 12 (which it is written as 117, the permutations of its digits are 171 and 711, the two numbers in base 12 is 229 and 1021 in base 10, both of them are primes), and it is the lowest number that cannot be shot with three darts on a standard dart board.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 4:04 pm
One of the reports I will get is a list of any participant, how long they were on and when they joined and left. With that I can probably provide the data to verify who won (and I am definitely open to skewing the data to the highest bidder - LOL)BrianMac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:31 pm 181 (my favorite number on account of its being symmetrical horizontally and vertically. And prime.)
We're all about the mug!! I picked this up a while ago thinking it would make a nice prize for something on the forum. This seems as good a reason to award it as any.
mugfront.png mugback.png
The mug will go to whomever is closest to the number of participants on the Zoom call at 7:35, with any tie being determined by coin toss or dice roll.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 4:56 pm
57.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:12 pm
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 7:05 pm
I'll venture in tomorrow. I want to wait and see if my MegaMillions numbers come in tonight.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:09 pm
Oooh! A mug I might have a shot at! I will throw in 201.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:49 pm
I come out of the woodwork for prizes! I'll say 156. Fifty-six has been my favorite number since 1977, for the embarrassing reason that Robby Benson was born in 1956. But 56 seems too low, and though my heart says to go with 256, the other guesses are making me doubt myself. So 156 it is.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:47 pm
138
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 10:35 am
For some odd reason my MegaMillions numbers did not come in. So, after taking into account all of the analysis offered by @Joe Ross,
I will have to go with 100. Or should it be styled as (100), without being negative of course.
I will have to go with 100. Or should it be styled as (100), without being negative of course.
Re: Q&A With Matt Gaffney June 29
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:51 pm
Since @BarbaraK beat me to the punch on 300, do I have to step my guess down to 299? I'd hate for Brian to have to saw that mug in half.
