# The consecutive number game.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 8, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020 "2003-07-08T16:06:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/401 "2003-08-19T01:16:12Z")

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That was my wolf\_meister impression… 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/402 "2003-08-19T01:25:19Z")

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Website of an Australian club devoted to the [Porsche 356](http://www.356.com.au/)

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**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/403 "2003-08-19T01:28:24Z")

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357 - consecutive prime integers

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**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/404 "2003-08-19T03:05:19Z")

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**358** - the cu. in. of a NASCAR engine. (I think…)

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/405 "2003-08-19T05:19:16Z")

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&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp **359**

Wolf 359 - one of the closest stars to our own Sun.

and if6was9 - good imitation - for a while, I felt I was in this all alone

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/406 "2003-08-19T05:20:45Z")

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&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp **360**

&nbsp 360 - number of degrees in a circle

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/407 "2003-08-19T05:23:44Z")

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&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp **361**

&nbsp 361 is a perfect square = 19 \* 19

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/408 "2003-08-19T06:41:34Z")

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Globular Cluster[NGC 362](http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/MWGC/n0362.html)

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/409 "2003-08-19T06:49:33Z")

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363 is the same both ways, and is divisible by three.

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**Author:** ![RealTronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RealTronic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealTronic)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/410 "2003-08-19T07:46:02Z")

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364 - the number of days in a non-leap year which is NOT my birthday

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/411 "2003-08-19T07:54:30Z")

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365 days in a year.

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**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/412 "2003-08-19T08:14:14Z")

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366 days in a leap year

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/413 "2003-08-20T05:36:59Z")

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In honor of the _USS Icefish_, a submarine designated [SS 367](http://www.ussicefish.com/)

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**Author:** ![OliverTwistofLime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b487fb/32.png) [@OliverTwistofLime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OliverTwistofLime)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/414 "2003-08-20T05:58:28Z")

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If we add the days of the previous year to 3 days of the New Year, we have 368 = Jan 3

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**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/415 "2003-08-20T08:17:09Z")

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369

The first three words of the chorus of the Schoolhouse Rock song 3 is a Magic Number.

3-6-9 12-15-18 21-24-27 30

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/416 "2003-08-20T22:15:52Z")

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The philosopher [Democritus](http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/democrit.htm) died in 370 B.C.

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/417 "2003-08-21T00:14:37Z")

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&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp **371**  
&nbsp 371 is the sum of 3 consecutive primes 113 + 127 + 131

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Of course I could have repeated my joke - Democritus died in 370? Yeah I know I was in **371** and the racket he made kept me awake all night. - but I won’t. After all, it seems as though you folks have come to expect more mathematical related revelations from the wolf-meister.

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**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/418 "2003-08-21T00:53:26Z")

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**3-72** - M.C. Escher died (Anybody remember the Simpson’s opening that has them coming to the couch from all different directions and angles?)

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**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/419 "2003-08-21T00:54:32Z")

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**373** - number of career wins by Hall of Famers Grover Cleveland Alexander and Christy Matthewson (The Christian Gentleman)

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/420 "2003-08-21T06:53:10Z")

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_Prison Treadmills_, Episode [374](http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/epi374.htm) of “Engines of Our Ingenuity”, a series presented by the University of Houston’s College of Engineering

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