I got to thinking about numbers the other day as i was falling asleep and realized that there are several numbers that are instantly recognizable by most people. Some others are instantly recognized by certain groups. Anyway here is a numbers quiz for you. See how many you can get and respond in comments. Some may be a bit ambiguous so I tried to group them together so think in themes, each theme starts with a very recognizable number. Also, units are not shown. So without further ado see what you can get with no help.
24
365
12
60
3,600
299,792,458 (perhaps better known as 3x10 to the 8th
768
5280
1; 92,855,820; 8. (This is a measurement of distance all three numbers are equal (with different units)).
98.6
100 (or 212)
-273.15
29,029 (think of Dave
88,600 (Same idea as the previous answer)
4.5 billion
14 billion
80 billion (this is a number of a certain type of thing, think BIG
3.14...
2.718...
1.618
10 to the 100
10 to the 10 to the 100
{0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...}
{14,19,21,23,27,27,28,31,33,34,36,38} (this may be off a bit, but you should get it)
And finally...
42
Good luck.
22 comments:
24 - hours in a day
365 - days in a year
12 - months in a year
60 - minutes in an hour
3,600 - seconds in an hour
299,792,458 (perhaps better known as 3x10 to the 8th) - speed of light meters/second
768 - ?
5280 - ?
24,859.82 - miles to the moon?
1; 92,855,820; 8. (This is a measurement of distance all three numbers are equal (with different units)).
98.6 - average human body temp
100 (or 212) - boiling water
-273.15 - absolute zero
29,029 (think of Dave) - mount everest.
88,600 (Dave would know this too) - ?
4.5 billion - ?
14 billion - ?
80 billion (this is a number of a certain type of thing, think BIG) -?
9-1=8 (from a previous odd topic) - ?
3.14... - pi
2.718... - e
1.618 - ?
10 to the 100 - googol
10 to the 10 to the 100 - googolplex
{0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...} - Fibonacci sequence
{14,19,21,23,27,27,28,31,33,34,36,38} (this may be off a bit, but you should get it) - ?
And finally...
42 - the answer to life the universe and everything.
So I answered off the top of my head and ? marked the ones I didn't know right off. I'll have to look them up, though they seem familiar.
oops, reviewing my answers I see that I was an order of magnitude off with the answer to 24,855.82. Distance to the moon is 238,857.00 miles.
24-hours in a day
365- days in a year
12-months in a year
5280-feet in a miles
98.6-human body temp
100-212-boiling point
29,029-hight of mount everest
3.14-pi
that's all I thought of upon first glance
{14,19,21,23,27,27,28,31,33,34,36,38}- Is Joshua really 14? Wow.
Actually, Davie would correct you on 29,029 for Mount Everest. He has been telling me since I was about eight that Mount Everest was 29,035 ft. That's why I didn't get that one
Ok, Ok wikipedia says 29, 029, but on further research I found this:
"Scientists supported by the National Geographic and Boston's Museum of Science were able to operate Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite equipment on the very top of Mount Everest last May and have determined the precise height of the world's tallest mountain: seven feet higher than the current official elevation.
The revised elevation - 29,035 feet (8850 meters), two meters or seven feet higher than the previously accepted figure - was announced Nov. 11 by Bradford Washburn, renowned mountain photographer/explorer and honorary director of Boston's Museum of Science, at the opening reception of the 87th annual meeting of the American Alpine Club."
However several of these numbers are estimates (such as 14 billion (years by the way)). They should be close enought o be recognized.
Ask Dave what 768 is too.
14 billion: age of universe
4.5 billion: age of earth
80 billion: galaxies in universe
Once you said years I got those ones, then figured going with the universe theme the 80 billion might be galaxies?
Kinda hard to do without seeing others' answers. But to add...
1.618: divine proportion (this is a really cool number if you are into art and architecture). Another fascinating number is Zero. You would be amazed the history behind this number, or lack of number. Sometimes known as the devils number because if God is everything then who is nothing?
5280: Feet in a mile (come on Aaron :-)) But I must admit you got ones I would not.
And why the discrimination against gravity?
No discrimination intended, I would like to try my hand too, so feel free to come up with some recognizable numbers of your own.
5280 I have to admit I don't know that one. Ask me m/km or something. I guess I never found ft/mi useful enough to remember.
I'll take a stab at this one. Are the delimiters wrong? Re-Interpreting them as:
1; 92; 855,820; 8
Average distance from earth to sun in the following measurements:
au, millions of miles, ?, light minutes.
I guess I never posted my corrected answer from miles to the moon to circumference of the earth.
24,859.82
Yeah, but 92,855,820 is equal to 92 million or so. So the numbers were right, and that was it distance to the sun.
I googled the answers we hadn't come up with yet and found out what 88600 was but I'm still at a loss for 768 and 9-1=8.
88,600 - nice googling on that one Meg, not easy to find unless you take the highest mountain on earth into account...which I didn't.
768 approximate speed of sound.
Numbers Game Additions:
224
7547579
94509
Marble drive home phone number
with Zip code. 224?
224 marble drive
Good times, I have thought about asking the people that live there to let me tour the house whenever i pass it , but haven't mustered up the audacity yet.
Ok, 9-1=8 is a bit to vague I guess. But I did hint that it was an old odd topic. You would see that one of the first was how they had stopped counting Pluto as a planet. So 9 planets minus one is now 8 planets in the solar system.
hmm reading off of aaron's not sure how to get back to original.
768? mach 1? think it's around there
5280 feet per mile
1:92,855,820 :8?
14 billion, aprox age of universe? 14-15ish
4.5 billion? age of earth?
88,600? dang this one will tick me off later
i'd forgotten e :(
1.618, the perfect ratio or beautiful number?
nice on fibonacci i'd forgotten the name
14,19 etc ?
woops had only read through aaron's i guess i was late to the party lol
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