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Sep 30, 2005 who? me? link
71

i dont have anything funny/weird to add here, so umm, someone make sure that that number up there really is prime.
Sep 30, 2005 Tangent link
73

Who? me? 71 is prime, so you are all good.
Sep 30, 2005 who? me? link
hmmmm ok what about 79?
Sep 30, 2005 roguelazer link
83

1337 is prime in, um, base 1337 and above... Probably in much lower bases as well, but that's the first one that comes to mind.
Sep 30, 2005 xava link
89

now i know little of this but that whould make it the same as 1 wouldn't it? and we allready decided 1 was not prime
Sep 30, 2005 roguelazer link
97

Actually, I lied. 1337 in base 1337 is 2395346478 in base 10, which is not prime. :(
Sep 30, 2005 Spellcast link
101

1337 = 7 * 191... I dont think it breaks down any farther..+

GAH damn you rogue

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Sep 30, 2005 Beolach link
103

More random number base trivia: 6 * 9 = 42 in base 13
Sep 30, 2005 who? me? link
uhh 107? maybe i am wrong, dunno
Sep 30, 2005 JestatisBess link
109
Sep 30, 2005 sarahanne link
Dec 25 = Oct 31
Sep 30, 2005 mgl_mouser link
113

Anyone plays hockey? Not that this prime has any puck significance, but coincidentally, you've never seen a hockey player use that particular prime as jersey number.
Sep 30, 2005 JestatisBess link
127
Oct 01, 2005 mgl_mouser link
131
Oct 01, 2005 toshiro link
137

mgl_mouser: I'm 23. The fact that I know how to speak 1337 as nothing to do with my age, rather my immersion in #vendetta. :) I'm not saying 1337 is great, I'm just a pedantic person.

Another problem:

If you take two buses and let them collide head-on (to simplify matters, let us say that they can align along one single axis, and let that axis be the x-axis) at cruising speed.

Thus, their colision speed is 130 m*s^-1, their acceleration at the time 0 m*s^-2.

I forgot about the mass of the EC-88 (unaltered). Thus, we could derive the force of impact exerted on every bus.

With further numbers that would have to be gotten through bugging the devs and/ or experiments, we could determine how big the material stress would be on both buses, since we know they are absolutely elastic (no permanent deformation after collision is visible).
Oct 01, 2005 mgl_mouser link
139

So, any devs want to contribute?
Oct 01, 2005 Will Roberts link
149
Oct 01, 2005 margoth link
151

A palindrome! (And yes, fuzzy logic _does_ tickle.)
Oct 01, 2005 toshiro link
157

If only there was a way to find out the area that results when two buses collide head-on. I also just realized an error... of course we get the resulting kinetic energy, not the force... silly me.
Oct 01, 2005 mgl_mouser link
163

Numerology: 6 divided by 3 = only 1 digit left in original prime. I must be a saint or something.