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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: 6 is a perfect number, as is 28. 12 isn't. |
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: 12 is not a "perfect number".
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Aces is correct, at least as far as number theory is concerned. (Metaphysics are a completely different matter.)Twelve is not a perfect number. The first perfect number is six. The next is twenty-eight.
Four IS a proper divisor of twelve. Hence the total of its proper divisors is sixteen. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, acesover wrote: Good lord, no it isn't. How did I forget 4? Super embarrassed. Sorry. "Now the trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you already are is that you very often succeed."--C.S. Lewis
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
How many people know the next one without looking? (After 6 and 28, that is).
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Yes, but I remember it because I saw it when I looked up the reference for my last post.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: What's embarrassing is that I do. The mind is a weird thing, sometimes.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
I recall that it's four hundred something. 472 maybe, or 476.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: Me. Nice connection to Mersenne primes too.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: I meant that 4 was an overlooked factor of 12.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, landmark wrote: Actually, I don't believe there's any such thing as an "improper" number. Four is, in fact, a "proper divisor" of twelve. One, however, is the loneliest number according to Three Dog Night. |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
IIRC, there are also deficient and abundant numbers; 4 would be deficient 1+2<3, and 12 would be abundant: 1+2+3+4+6>12.
Who says I can't contribute to a football thread?
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Professor Irwin Corey is probably the only one who could tackle this question, so I'll paraphrase him.
Why do juries in criminal cases have twelve members? It is a two part question. The first part is "Why?" "Why" is a problem that has confounded and intrigued philosophers since time immemorial. It is a very complex question and one that I cannot possibly answer thoroughly here. The second part of the question is "Do juries in criminal cases have twelve members?" Yes! |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, landmark wrote: . . . and, because 3 < 4 and less-than is transitive, 1 + 2 < 4. (Of course, 1 + 2 really isn't less than 3, but you get the idea.) |
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General_Magician Special user United States 707 Posts |
Lobo,
Talked to my buddy who used to be a cop (who now works for the federal government). I called him just to see how he was doing and also asked to clarify if he actually made 8 bucks an hour as a cop at the one police department in question. He got paid more than 8 bucks an hour at the police department in question, but he stated some of the mandated cops in some of the surrounding counties made 8 bucks an hour. I doubled check to be sure that those were mandated cops he was talking about in the surrounding counties and he stated yes. But he himself made more than 8 bucks an hour at the police department in question. He said before he was on the road working as a mandated cop and he worked the jail in the 90s he made somewhere like 9 dollars and some odd cents an hour. So, just wanted to set the record straight. Your suscpicions that he made more than 8 bucks an hour turned out to be correct. I mainly called him just to see how he was doing as he is a good friend of mine and have known him since I was in middle school.
"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there is a light shining somewhere nearby." -unknown
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
I appreciate your intellectual honesty in reporting that.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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General_Magician Special user United States 707 Posts |
I don't know if it's like "intellectual" honesty. I'm not really an intellectual myself . I think it's just honesty. I don't mind admitting when I am wrong. It also kind illustrates what you guys have been talking about how eyewitness testimony is notoriously inaccurate. Even though I wasn't giving any sort of testimony, it would seem I didn't recall it as accurately as I thought I did.
"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there is a light shining somewhere nearby." -unknown
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
The Americans, they need to be well armed, because they might be attacked by the cavemen again.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, General_Magician wrote: Not only was it intellectual honesty it was a serious man move standing up and coming back and posting that. Good on you.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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On Aug 28, 2014, S2000magician wrote: Yep. Sorry for the typo there.
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