Counting - discussion thread

[GuyBarry]

I can do train services too!

You're all going to get a bit stuck when we get to 1260 though

[The Orange One]

In February, in a match against Aberdeen, Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster conceded a goal for the first time in 1256 minutes.

Your link is wrong.

[GuyBarry]

Now corrected. Thanks.

[GuyBarry]

If anyone's interested, QI are now seven ahead of us on 1284, though they declined my offer of a formal challenge.

[GuyBarry]

If anyone's interested, QI are now seven ahead of us on 1284, though they declined my offer of a formal challenge.

And I'm delighted to say we've sneaked ahead again.

[RobbieM]

If anyone's interested, QI are now seven ahead of us on 1284, though they declined my offer of a formal challenge.

And I'm delighted to say we've sneaked ahead again.

Yippee!

[GuyBarry]

I originally proposed a race to 1300, but they said they wanted their game to stay the same as it always had been. Nevertheless I regard it as a matter of honour to get there before them...

[DrainBrain]

Another interesting artwork: Moby Dick Chapter 35 or 1294 times E, by Justin Quinn. (The second part of the title is self-explanatory, but I don't understand the first.)

I'm going to guess that the letter E appears 1294 times in chapter 35 of Moby-Dick. Other than that, there's a vague resemblance to the sea, but no apparent specific connection to that particular chapter as far as I can see.

[The Orange One]

2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 = 1295

(Probably could have waited until 1296 for this.)

Ah, but 1296 is simply 6^4. How many other four-digit numbers can be expressed using only two digits?

Let's see:

3^7, 3^8, 4^5, 4^6, 5^5, 6^4, 6^5, 7^4, 8^4, 9^4.

Or more complicated ones like (sin(1°))^-2...

[RobbieM]

The Counting thread and The Journey threads have met at 1,297, in Axminster!

[GuyBarry]

The Counting thread and The Journey threads have met at 1,297, in Axminster!

I bet you can't get the Journey thread to any of the locations in the 1298 post though

[RobbieM]

I bet you can't get the Journey thread to any of the locations in the 1298 post though

Bet I can...!

[GuyBarry]

Oh, very good! Perhaps we have the seeds of a new game here

P.S. We beat QI by 9 (according to my rules, anyway).

[GuyBarry]

Not interested. Russia's too far away. I'd rather go to Haverhill and get a bus to Cambridge. And travel the A1307 in the process.

OK, quiz time. I have already mentioned that road in the Counting thread, albeit under another name. What was it?

[RobbieM]

I think it was the former A604!