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Last night Lisa and I went to a Chinese restaurant with the computer scientist … | |
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@johncarlosbaez Waiting for the answer.But meanwhile, the "add up digits&q… | |
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@jannem - In base n, if the digits of a number N add up to something divisible … | |
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Since nobody who gets the answer seems to want to give it away: the interior an… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I don't, mainly because I saw 108 = 3 * 36 at once. What… | |
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@johncarlosbaez shallow but for me 108 = 90 + 18 | |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh, nice one! | |
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@jcastroarnaud - I'm not saying it helps me see why 108 = 3 × 36, but some… | |
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@ToucanIan - yes! In the restaurant I wound up doing the long division in my h… | |
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@johncarlosbaez the fascinating thing for me is how your brain made the metacog… | |
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@grant_h - indeed! In the restaurant I was annoyed that I didn't know the … | |
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@johncarlosbaez what appears as nontrivial to me is the fact that the inner fig… | |
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@antoinechambertloir - Now that I'm at my computer instead of my cell phone… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I see what you mean. But I happen to know the factorisation of… | |
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@KingmaYpe - Yes, I guess I do know that 111/3 = 37. I'm not a big fan of … | |
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@johncarlosbaez I would go with 108=99+9. | |
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@johncarlosbaez 108 divided by 3 is 216 divided by 6. 216 is 3 standard dice, s… | |
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@johncarlosbaez And now I'll never forget what \(108÷ 3\) is! | |
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@aadi - Great! It may come in handy if you ever have a bill of $108 split amo… | |
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@johncarlosbaezDid you know 108 is the number of beads in a japamala (sort of a… | |
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@suqdiq - no, I didn't know either of those things. Do you know where that… | |
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@0lschok - wow, it's interesting how different people think of this in diff… | |
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@BartoszMilewski - nice! I've been missing you around here. I think it&#… | |
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@ToucanIan @johncarlosbaez That matched my method for dividing in my head. What… | |
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@bhawthorne - interesting! In the restaurant I went for "108 is a bit mor… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Yep! That's why we do it, don't we? | |
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@aadi - you bet! | |
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@dearlove - that's a nice way to think about it. I know dice well enough t… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Then you've missed the nice pattern next one 7776. 46656 is… |