# Nearing a round number

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 26, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272 "2000-12-26T19:42:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![isopropyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@isopropyl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isopropyl)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/1 "2000-12-26T19:42:08Z")

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Can I get the magic post?

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**Author:** ![isopropyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@isopropyl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isopropyl)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/2 "2000-12-26T19:43:36Z")

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Aggh! All 99999s  
And now I’m locked out for a minute.

Aggh! I tried to beat the minute and got locked out for a second time!

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**Author:** ![isopropyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@isopropyl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isopropyl)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/3 "2000-12-26T19:44:57Z")

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☹ Sigh.

999,999 and 1,000,001

Oh, well, there’s always _10,000,000._

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/4 "2000-12-26T20:07:26Z")

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**isopropyl** already knows this, but for the benefit of anyone else who cares, postid=1000000 belongs to **dropzone**. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1000000#post1000000](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1000000#post1000000)

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/5 "2000-12-26T20:31:41Z")

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This board is manny things to manny people…

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/6 "2000-12-26T20:33:07Z")

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I guess no one sees the significance of this.

The 1,000,000th post was about **coal** , and directed towards **me!!!** It even contains the word “ **anthracite** ” !!!

😃 😃 😃 😃 😃

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearing-a-round-number/47272/7 "2000-12-27T06:35:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Anthracite \*  
> \*\*The 1,000,000th post was about **coal** , and directed towards **me!!!** It even contains the word “ **anthracite** ” !!!  
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Good for you. 😃