Using the word “one” is enough to get you beaten up by your classmates.
FYI, 106 posts ago.
There, you see? They’re ganging up on me already! :eek:
Only watched TBBT once. Sheldon was preoccupied with the number 73:
73 is a permutable prime
73 is the 21st prime number
37 is the 12th prime number
So, I learned something. A little number fondling shows that the writers could have gone further:
37 squared is 1369. The sum of all odd integers from 1 to 73 is 1369.
Crane
Sheldon: “The best number is 73. Why? 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3… and in binary 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001.”
Leonard: “73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers!”
Sheldon: “Chuck Norris wishes… all Chuck Norris backwards gets you is Sirron Kcuhc!”
Meh… Base-10 numerology doesn’t much impress me. The binary palindrome part is maybe a bit interesting, but being a binary palindrome isn’t all that rare for prime numbers (3, 5, 7, 17, and 31 are also binary palindromes, off the top of my head).
And Crane’s observation is just that 73 = 2*37-1.
And Brad Ausmus.
Chronos#46,
No - Crane’s observation was not 2*37-1. It is that 37 squared equals 1369 and 1369 is the sum of all odd integers from 1 to 73. No biggie, but better material than the palindromic nature of binary.
Crane
The Romans fed Jesus spaghetti with little bits of hot dog in it.
Spaghetti with little bits of hot dog in it is a true Eye-talian treat.
Sushi restaurants have menus with Kung-fuey writing on them.
You can actually become addicted to Dr Pepper.
You can’t use Siri if you have a speech impediment.
Stephen Hawking doesn’t like to be called “Wheels.”
Stephen Hawking hates to lose.
And those two facts are mathematically equivalent. For comparison: 3 = 22-1, and the sum of all odd integers from 1 to 3 is equal to 2^2. 9 = 25-1, and the sum of all odd integers from 1 to 9 is equal to 5^2. 21 = 211-1, and the sum of all odd integers from 1 to 21 is equal to 11^2, and so on. If m = 2n-1, then the sum of all odd integers from 1 to m equals n^2, for any value of n.
It’s not just OUR Indians who have a drinking problem.
As the OP of the thread, I am declaring that repetitions are allowed, because the thread is what YOU learned from TBBT, and two people may have learned the same thing.
SLIGHT Dr Pepper addiction.
I wonder if this is true, and what the implications are for people with heavy foreign accents?
I wonder about these too, especially the second. Apparently Hawking is a big fan of the show, and loves being referenced in it.
GOOD wives serve their husbands iced tea and snickerdoodles. :o
Howard got Raj’s phone to respond to him with a fake Indian accent.
Chronos #146,
True, but that’s not your misquote of “73 = 2*37-1”.
A simpler form for the sum of positive odd integers is ((N+1)/2)^2.
In any case I learned about the permutable prime pair from TBBT.
Crane
Even if you have your son tested as a child and the doctor says he’s fine, you’ll regret not following up with that specialist in Houston.
You can get a child to eat broccoli by smacking him with a Bible.
I struggle a bit with “73 is a binary palindrome” because of my habit of viewing binary numbers in the most commonly used appropriate format. When I reverse the binary digits of 73, it ends up being 146.
Raj doesn’t have a HEAVY accent.