Favourite numbers

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Morzedec
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3717 (3440)

Happy childhood days
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Morzedec wrote:3717 (3440)

Happy childhood days

3717 was a 57xx pannier tank according to my book, I suspected 3440 was City of Truro..
Right again Cyril :wink:
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60. Someone else has already chosen this, but failed to point out that it is a Superior Highly Composite Number.
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60
Retirement age :wink:
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6234
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Cyril Haearn wrote:60
Retirement age :wink:


For some!
John
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Is 531 still the favourite number for cyclists?

Picked up a school book of maths excersizes for teenagers, looks very difficult :?
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Cyril Haearn wrote:Is 531 still the favourite number for cyclists?

Picked up a school book of maths excersizes for teenagers, looks very difficult :?

...............well it would be for me - but I'd be accused of ".....banging an old drum........." by the bright, young things of the cycling fraternity!
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I've got two, 4472 my old fire brigade number and the proper number for the Flying Scotsman, and 2 1/4 from the rhyme in the metricifcation info advert Two and a quater pounds of jam
weigh about a kilogram.
I don't know why it stuck but it did.
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A millipede does not of course (?) have a thousand feet, but up to 375 pairs, some species have only 12, 20 or 50

Perhaps one could talk about Grandipedes, they are indeed grand, fascinating, beasts
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Mick F wrote:
661-Pete wrote:
al_yrpal wrote:42
But what is the question? :lol:
6 x 7

Come on...

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I'm OK with even numbers, but odd numbers don't seem right to me... I often mix up 5 or 3 with letters like M and this can make doing sums difficult. May I take this opportunity to tell all one of my favourite number-based jokes? Says zero to eight, "Nice belt!"
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37°C, 100°F

Possible temperatures this weekend :?
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