Really? From a traditional phone pad, I only count 729 (with letters only, or 4092 if you include numbers). What is off with my math?
How are you getting 729? I get 5 digits with 3 possible letters, one with 4, and one without any (the 1), for 3[sup]5[/sup] * 4 = 972.
Depends whether the number includes 0/1 (which don’t have any letter attached) and/or 7/9 (which have 4 instead of the usual 3). Don’t ask me to factor that in, I don’t math good enough.
But simplifying to 1 digit = 3 letters, the number of permutations would be 3^7, or 2187. 4^7 ( 16,384) if you added the digit. Wouldn’t it ?
I have a difficult time accepting that some numbers have 4 letters — kind of old-school, I guess. And really kind of annoyed that they had to put S at the last position on 7, given how much it gets used in English.
Kind of odd that your figure works out to a sort of anagram of mine.
55378008! Haaaaaa!
Seconding that someone who is looking for something inappropriate can find it in all that statistical noise isn’t really significant.
Unless you’re suggesting it was some kind of hidden fnord message from the so-called administration gloating over how affordable care will screw us all.
How long before the DDoS attacks are identified?
5318008918 ?
Be kind to aceplace57.
He needs patience.
Yes you can. You totally can.
For example, it could have just been 1-800 - FUCK-YOU. There’s something I just made up that is better.
Who in the hell says “F1uck yo!”?
The fact that it’s a couple characters away from being an obscenity may give a chuckle to the pre-adolescent crowd but that’s about it. I suppose if one had the time you could find similar near-obscenities in all kinds of numbers from all kinds of unlikely sources.
It also spells 1-800-F1T-BLWO and 1-800-D1VA-KYO. What were they THINKING!?!
Uh oh guys, Fox News is leaking again.
I can just see someone desperately trying each letter/number combination, and after days of toil, finally arriving at “Ah ha! It sort of looks like ‘fuck you’ if you spell ‘you’ as ‘yo’ and add the number 1 in there somewhere.”
Terrible performance. 1/10.
Can we say 2868 there now?
Hey pal, 3825 968.
Did you know that the definition of “fart” is in the dictionary? No way!
I will never be able to go to London without being aware that “Trafalgar” spelt backwards has “fart” in it.
:rolleyes:
Did you really expect them to go through all possible rude or funny words that the phone number might spell out, as well as all possible combinations that were even close to being rude or funny words? Because if they had done that, that would have been stupid.
Does not compute.
Aceplace puts up a number that that made the internet rounds because it apparently contains the phrase “fuck you”. Apparently it was not intentional by the creators of this number, so we must behave appropriately, no matter what side of the political aisle you may lie on.
Teabaggers decided on their moniker without realizing the sexual connotation it came with. Yet, it is still mercilessly mocked, even though one should behave appropriately, no matter what side of the political aisle you may lie on.
Lighten up, fellas. It was a bit funny.