Tag: Numbers

Let’s delete all the 50 states and use counties instead. We could have 3,033 states. Here’s what the map would look like. (take a look at the full hi-res version) There would be a problem that many of the states…

Any restaurant chain with more than twenty stores might be required to show the calories counts on their menu boards. Of course the restaurant industry opposes this. But isn’t it time for people to own up and know what they…

While walking by NBC Tower there was sign for “Channel 5 souvenirs” but someone put a “3” in front of the “5” to make a 35. Why would someone do that? What is the significance of 35? The first thing…

Delicious.com is a great online bookmarking service. Use it to bookmark all the cool sites you find, and then in the future when you are trying to remember the name of a site, BADDA-BING BADDA-BANG! You can find it easily.…

Image from shutterstock.com Sporting events 2008: Summer Olympics 2009: The second World Baseball Classic, The Women’s Professional Soccer league will debut Winner: 2008. Nothing trumps the summer Olympics Politics 2008: Presidential election 2009: Nothing Winner: 2008. Obama! Chinese Year 2008:…

“What is the optimal temperature for a refrigerator?” The best place I can think to get the answer is Sears. I would consider Sears to be the ultimate source on refrigerators. Where do you go to buy a fridge? Sears.…

I’m about to reach 1,000 cheers given on 43things.com. (43 things is a website where you post goals, and help others achieve their goals). Recently I also got 4,000 webpages bookmarked on delicious, so that got me thinking about all…

Give your smiley faces a number hat! It’s great fun. 1:-) flattop or a confederate hat 2:-) 3:-) viking horns 4:-) 5:-) flattop with bangs 6:-) comb-over 7:-) parted 8:-) princess leia buns 9:-) I couldn’t think of names for…

Let’s say you want your new phone number to spell something specific. For instance, I want mine to be 778-3278 which spells SPUDART. Now I would need an area code where that phone number is available through a cellular provider.…

Some thoughts on dates since January 1, 0001: October 1, 2007 would be day number 732,951 starting from the beginning of AD in January 1, 0001. It’s been 1,055,449,440 minutes. That’s just a tad over 1 billion minutes. (One billion…

Please people! Do not put periods in your phone number. I know you are trying to be cool, but phone numbers have DASHES, not dots. It’s not an IP address. I know you want to look all cool, but it’s…

You can now measure the number of watts particular computers or appliances use. The P3 International Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor just plugs right into your outlet and the unit’s large LCD display counts consumption by the kilowatt-hour, the same as…

Chicago has such a nice grid of streets. Every eight blocks is a mile. And every four blocks is a major street. Very organized. I made a goal on 43 things to memorize all of the major Chicago street names.…

Mark May 6, July 7, and September 8 on your calendar this year! May 6 05/06/07 08:09 03:04 05/06/07 July 7 07/07/07 07:07 September 8 09/08/07 06:05 11:10 09/08/07 You can add these events to your calendar as an iCal…

Take your cell phone number. Enter it into a calculator as a set of digits as numbers, and the dashes as a minus sign. At the end of the phone number, hit the enter/equals button. Let’s take Empire carpet’s old…

83 in text messaging means TD or Touchdown. If your team scores a touchdown, you can send an excited text message to a friend that says, “TD TD TD TD TD TD TD TD.” All it takes is to hit…

At 5:04am this morning the date was a neat countdown number 08/07/06 05:04 am

Ten times a day, a digital clock will display numbers that are consecutive from low to high. 12:34 (am/pm) 1:23 (am/pm) 2:34 (am/pm) 3:45 (am/pm) 4:56 (am/pm) If you count army time, then you can include: 23:45 0:12 And if…

CNN reports that the new largest prime number was discovered on January 4, 2006. It is 9.1 million digits long. (thanks Tom for the link) If you were to print this number out on 8.5×11″ sheets of paper, one-sided with…

The McDonalds in downtown Chicago on Michigan Ave right behind the Wrigley Building is store #4444. I just saw this on my receipt. Numbers like this make me happy.

The Olympic countdown is on! A shirt that says “292 more days” would be cool. Whenever you wear it, you could look up what would happen 292 days from now. Update April 9, 2022 — 6,193 days later: I like…

Where is: Latitude 33° 33Min 33Sec, Longitude 33° 33Min 33Sec? — It’s right off the coast of Israel. Then you can add minus signs in the numbers. 33° 33Min 33Sec -33° 33Min 33Sec — Middle of North Atlantic Ocean -33°…

when coding websites, you assign color by a six-digit hex value. This value can have the following numbers/letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. So a piece of code for…

Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have…

With HTML, you can make a numbered list by doing the following: < OL > < LI >apples < LI >bananas < LI >cranberries < LI >oranges < /OL > Which appears like this:applesbananascranberriesorangesBut is there a numbered list in…

Throughout history our number five used to look like a 4. Here’s a history of our numerals from Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. It wasn’t until the 16th century that the 5 finally stuck as five.

Thinking about shadows has reminded me about an old project that never got finished. To take a piece of string the same length as the height of the Sears Tower—1450 feet. Attach one end of the string to the corner…

It’s wild that two of the three biggest cities in the US have palindromic area codes to each other: 312: Chicago 213: Los Angeles Update 20 years later: How Chicago got 3, 1, and 2 digits in their area code.…

Here’s my email away message while i’m gone from work: 2004 will be an interesting year. Such a nice even number that you can easily divide into many slices of pizza. 2003 was a bit more hard to slice pizzas…

It looks like an infinity symbol. A friend of mine, Noel, said it was standing up. I like how that personfies an infinity symbol–like it’s a person. Where does the infinity symbol work? Noel said a toll booth, because it…

We have lower case and upper case letters. Why not lower and upper case numbers? John Weistroffer pointed this out to me while we were discussing why upper and lower letters exist. Then we figured that the numbers before the…