Let me guess: the two largest?
Well, 58008 you have to look down, not up.
Though I more often saw it as 5318008.
Is seven-segment numerical display even a thing anymore, with full-res graphics cheap and ubiquitous these days?
You get them on less expensive stuff. They are on my alarm clock and microwave, for example. Even if the full-res graphics are just as cheap, it takes some engineering to redesign something that has 7-segments. So they won’t do that until the 7-segs are no longer made.
I believe it was Mel Brooks who said the two funniest numbers were seventeen and thirty-two.
Nah I learned long ago. Eyes up!
Yup the two bigger ones. (Hangs head in shame.)
Mel Brooks was a writer on the Dick van Dyke Show.
I expect most of us in this thread already know this, but we have a dedicated thread on the “6-7” phenomenon:
“Vertebrae Georg”
Can anyone explain the alt-text?
According to here,
The title-text references Spiders Georg, an internet meme character who eats over 10,000 spiders a day, skewing the average, creating the factoid that “the average person swallows 3 spiders a year.”
Cf. the old joke about the Vatican having 5.9 popes per square mile.
As an aside: today’s Tom the Dancing Bug feels unusually xkcd-esque:
“Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick”
For anyone curious:
When I first saw this comic, I misread it as “universal object”. And was trying to figure out how all objects could be fitted into one of those shapes.
I’ve definitely seen that before. Can’t remember where, though. Does that strip do repeats?
Wouldn’t surprise me, especially one day after Christmas.
Where’s the ungodly Czechoslovakian outlet?
Ya gotta admit it’d be extremely difficult to plug one of those babies in wrong!