Count As High As Possible Before A Mod/Admin Posts

[Valkyrie]

[Marty]

🎶 Sweet sixteen goes to church 🎶
🎶 Just to see the boys 🎶
🎶 Laughs and screams and giggles 🎶
🎶 At every little noise... 🎶

 

I was still at primary school when this first came out. I can still remember the shock that some people had over the opening lines.

[Valkyrie]

[Marty]

"18 Forever" - by Katie McAllister...

Unfortunately YouTube doesn't allow embedding for the best version of this song, which appears to centre around memories of a Lesbian relationship, so you will have to click on the link below to view it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMup9qJ2JA

Some of the lyrics:

"We stayed in as the nights grew colder
You were just here with me
In this closet
The one I sit here locked in
[......]
You told me don’t be scared of nothing
Well you know back then I wasn’t
Not until this real life sunk in
And told us we couldn’t be together
Well I guess you can’t be 18 forever"

Edited August 7, 2020 by Marty
Tidying up

[Valkyrie]

[clochette]

2020 is a strange year

[Valkyrie]

21!  We can now legally drink in the US  

[clochette]

Ugh where are my 22?! 

[Valkyrie]

Wow... a number gif not related to sports!    

[clochette]

There are 24 hours in a day 

[Marty]

Here's one from my youth...

 

[wildone]

I wanna play:

 

If you search 26 in google, it comes up with 16,060,000,000 results  Shouldn't it be 16,060,000,026?  

[Valkyrie]

[Marty]

I'm not sure if we shouldn't have started back at number one, because a site Admin posted...

But, unless @wildone insists, I'll carry on from Val's post...

30 days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have 31,
Except for February alone,
Which  has 28 days clear,
but 29 in a leap year.

Edited August 19, 2020 by Marty
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[Valkyrie]

1 hour ago, Marty said:

I'm not sure if we shouldn't have started back at number one, because a site Admin posted...

But, unless @wildone insists, I'll carry on from Val's post...

30 days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have 31,
Except for February alone,
Which  has 28 days clear,
but 29 in a leap year.

It appears Steve has revoked his superpowers so he can participate in this thread, so I carried on.  

 

[Marty]

The Thirty Years’ War: The first modern war?

In 1618, the first in a series of conflicts broke out in Northern Europe, sparking three decades of violence, famine and disease that swept across the continent and decimated its population. What we now know as the Thirty Years’ War lasted until 1648. The ensuing intellectual upheaval ushered in the beginnings of a new global order and laid the foundations of the law of war.

Sébastian Vrancx: The Looting of Wommelgem (1625 - 1630)

The war began when Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II attempted to force Roman Catholicism on his subjects. But events gathered pace as a series of military campaigns and alliances dragged much of Europe into full-blown conflict.

On 23 May 1618, a group of Bohemian Protestants led by Count Jindřich Matyáš Thurn-Valsassina threw two Catholic governors and their secretary out of a top-floor window of Prague Castle. This episode was the unlikely flash point that set off the Thirty Years’ War. It sparked the Bohemian Revolt, which engulfed vast swathes of Europe, brought Spanish forces across the Alps to wage a campaign in the Netherlands and, rather improbably, led to the Swedish occupation of Alsace.

It drew in major European powers of the time – the Holy Roman Empire (ruled by the Habsburg dynasty), the Catholic Church, the House of Savoy, and various German princes, as well as the national armies of Spain, Sweden, Denmark and France – alongside other forces with differing affinities. It ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia – a treaty that, indirectly, laid down the principles of legal equality between States, non-intervention in internal affairs and dispute settlement. And in so doing, it paved the way for the global order that exists today.

The Thirty Years’ War is thought to have claimed between 4 and 12 million lives. Around 450,000 people died in combat. Disease and famine took the lion’s share of the death toll. Estimates suggest that 20% of Europe’s people perished, with some areas seeing their population fall by as much as 60%.

These figures are remarkably high, even by 17th century standards. By comparison, the First World War – including the post-armistice outbreak of Spanish Flu – claimed 5% of Europe’s population. The only comparable example was Soviet losses during the Second World War, which amounted to 12% of the USSR’s population. The Thirty Years’ War took an immense human toll, with significant, long-lasting impacts on marriage and birth rates.

Source: https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2017/05/23/thirty-years-war-first-modern-war/ (14 minutes read)

Edited August 21, 2020 by Marty
typo

[Marty]

The numbers 31, 331, 3331, 33331, 333331, 3333331, and 33333331 are all prime. For a time it was thought that every number of the form 3w1 would be prime. However, the next nine numbers of the sequence are composite; their factorisations are:

333333331 = 17 × 19607843

3333333331 = 673 × 4952947

33333333331 = 307 × 108577633

333333333331 = 19 × 83 × 211371803

3333333333331 = 523 × 3049 × 2090353

33333333333331 = 607 × 1511 × 1997 × 18199

333333333333331 = 181 × 1841620626151

3333333333333331 = 199 × 16750418760469 and

33333333333333331 = 31 × 1499 × 717324094199.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_(number)
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Seems I may finish up playing with myself...

Hope I don't go blind (or finish up with hairy palms).
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Edited September 16, 2020 by Marty
Tidying up

[Marty]

Okay...

Looks like I'll have to keep playing with myself.  

Some facts about the number 32:

In Mathematics:

• 32 is the fifth power of two (2⁵ = 32)
• 32 is also a Leyland number since 2⁴ + 4² = 32
• 32 = 1¹ + 2² + 3³
• 32 has only one prime factor (2)

 In Science:

• 32 is the atomic number of germanium (which means that an atom of germanium has 32 protons in its nucleus).
• 32 degrees Fahrenheit is the freezing point of water at standard atmospheric pressure.

 In Human Anatomy:

• 32 is the total number of teeth in the adult set of teeth in human beings.

 In Sports and Pastimes:

• The FIFA World Cup final tournament has featured 32 men's national teams from 1998 through 2022, after which the field will expand to 48.
• The FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament will feature 32 national teams starting with the next edition in 2023.
• The ball used in association football is most often made with 32 panels of leather or synthetic material.
• There are 32 black squares on a chess board, 32 white squares, and 32 pieces on the board at the beginning of a game of chess.

 In Music:

• Ludwig van Beethoven completed 32 pieces of numbered piano sonatas.

 In Religion:

• In the Kabbalah, there are 32 Kabbalistic Paths of Wisdom. This is, in turn, derived from the 32 times of the Hebrew name for God, Elohim, appears in the first chapter of Genesis.
• One of the central texts of the Pāli Canon in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, the Digha Nikaya, describes the appearance of the historical Buddha with a list of 32 physical characteristics.
• The Hindu scripture, Mudgala Purana, also describes Ganesha as taking 32 forms.

In Telephony:

• 32 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Belgium.

In Ireland:

• There are 32 counties on the island of Ireland.

 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_(number)

 

 

[Valkyrie]

Here you go, because I really don't want to watch Marty play with himself    

[Marty]

And now for something completely different....

Spoiler

By the way, @Valkyrie, the solution to your 33 problem was easy (thanks to Google )!!!

(8,866,128,975,287,528)³ + (–8,778,405,442,862,239)³ + (–2,736,111,468,807,040)³ = 33

There's even a YouTube video that... erm... explains it all?:

Spoiler

 

(There's a possibility young @Drew Espinosa might just understand it. )

 

 

 

[Valkyrie]

I've never read it, but it looks interesting.  It was something other than sports with the number 35  

[clochette]

In france we use the expression "tous les 36 du mois" which could be translated into once in a blue moon https://www.lawlessfrench.com/expressions/tous-les-trente-six-du-mois/

[Valkyrie]

[Marty]

The Number 38

38 is the sum of the squares of the first three prime numbers.

The first three prime numbers are 2, 3, and 5.

2² = 4

3² = 9

5² = 25

4 + 9 + 25 = 38

Edited October 13, 2020 by Marty
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[Valkyrie]