Survey posted 2005-05-09 15:20 by Jon.

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In what class might you people have heard it?? Somewhere in High School or Collage? or did you learn it form someone?

I think I read about it in a book or on the Internet a few years ago.

Books and the Internet.

In Junior High while training for math competitions

Thanks for your replys. I have a test comming up and i was doing the chapter review and happened to look at the key terms. It's in my Geometry book chapter 10 section 1 and my teacher never said anything about it. She tells us to take notes that she provides and we have to fill in the blanks. It was the last part of the notes and we didn't even dicuss it at all. It makes me mad!

The DaVinci Code mentioned it somewhere.
I thought it was kinda' kewl.

Never heard of it. My math teachers must have forgotten to teach it. ;-)

It's the least known/taught "magic" number. To those who know about it, it is one of the most fascinating numbers, but for some reason no one ever really talks about it. It doesn't really have a lot of regular practical usage I guess, the way pi and e do. It's more of just a thing of beauty than one of utility.

I believe a while back Scientific American did a whole big cover article on phi. That's the most publicity I've ever seen it get.

What about 42? Oh, wait...movie & books...never mind.

What the @#?% is so cool about 42?

It is the answer to Life, the Universe, & Everything.

and it equals 6 times 9. really.

Only in base 13, I think.

Read the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Haha.. I picked Yes.. and have a good chunk of it memorized because I thought it was Pi.. stupid me :-D

Aww come on!! No one.. you mean NO ONE besides me thought it was Pi?!?! That bites!

hehe. you used the word "bites"

bites....bytes....8 bits...00101101 ;)

Any significance to 00101101, or was it just random?

Invert the last three bits and you get 42. :-P

They say if you look for a number you will find it everywhere...it works for 42 (for example, the first jersey ever hung from the rafters of the colleseum in Phoenix from the Phoenix Suns was #42, a useless bit of trivia), but I cannot seem to find Graham's number anywhere except on the Internet. :)