07-07-07

M.D. Holloway · **07-07-07**

Isn't it interesting that many of us have such an interest in numbers when in fact they only exist through agreement.

Numbers are the one thing we as humnas can always agree on. You can argue politics and religion till the end of time but numbers are something that is as abstract as you can get yet also provides the best source of total agreement.

The number 7 has always held a special place for me. All to often the number 7 creeps in. Maybe becuase I look for it or it is coincidence. Maybe I want something that is beyound me that is a sort of guardian angel which no one can argue about. Everyone can identify with a special number(s).

So with that, I will begin my personal celebration of the number 7. Here is to you 7. If my Wife would have let me, that would have been the name of my son!

fingpilot · 07-06-2007, 09:19 PM

I took two planeloads of people to Las Vegas today to be betting tomorrow. I don't get the math... The one way charter was $13K+ each.

Jeff Alton · 12:46 PM

What nationallity were the folks paying 13K for the ride to KLAS??

I am not sure I get the whole 07 07 07 thing.......
Cheers

mattdavis11 · 07-06-2007, 10:29 PM

That's great Lube! #7 in the family, I am very lucky to be here. I wore the #7 jersey playing sports as a kid (except for basketball) and had a great career. However, I make 7 on par three's now. I blew it out on 6/06/06.

kstar · 07-06-2007, 10:33 PM

The number of letters in my daughter's first, middle and last name is 7-7-7. It was not intentional.

I guess tomorrow is her lucky day.

Best,

Kurt

Joeaksa · 07-07-2007, 01:31 AM

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Originally posted by fingpilot
I took two planeloads of people to Las Vegas today to be betting tomorrow. I don't get the math... The one way charter was $13K+ each.

The casino's here in Cannes and Monte Carlo are packed as well... Guess the europeans feel the same way.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

The Casinos will be very lucky

m325ix · 07-07-2007, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by red-beard
The Casinos will be very lucky

LOL

Tobra · Tobra's Garage

My son is one of the many people getting married today.

Numerology never did it for me any more than Scientology

Aurel · Aurel's Garage

Another factoid: Do you know why there are twelve inches in a foot? Because rednecks have six fingers on each hand

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Aurel

cstreit · cstreit's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
Also, the reason why we programmers use hexadecimal, is because it's used to access 64K worth of memory, and is based upon the 8-bit architecture of one of the first processors, the Intel 8008.

-Wayne

I heard it was because the first programmer had no thumbs...

Noah930 · Noah930's Garage

Hey, it's special 'cause today's my birthday!

epbrown · 07-07-2007, 11:33 AM

Back in the 70s when I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, there was a story about 7-07-1977. That a bunch of people bet the 7th horse in the 7th race, which came in...7th.

scottmandue · **Re: 07-07-07**

Quote:

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Isn't it interesting that many of us have such an interest in numbers when in fact they only exist through agreement.

Numbers are the one thing we as humnas can always agree on. You can argue politics and religion till the end of time but numbers are something that is as abstract as you can get yet also provides the best source of total agreement.

Oh really?

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel
by Rebecca Goldstein

Publisher Comments:
Kurt Godel is considered the twentieth century's greatest mathematician. His monumental theorem of Incompleteness overturned the prevailing conviction that the only true statements in math were those that could be proved. Inspired by Plato's philosophy of a higher reality, Godel demonstrated conclusively that there are in every formal system undeniably true statements that nevertheless cannot be proved. The result was an upheaval in mathematics.
From the famous Vienna Circle and sparring with Wittgenstein to Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, where he was Einstein's constant companion, Godel was both a towering intellect and a deeply mysterious figure, whose strange habits and ever-increasing paranoia led to his sad death by self-starvation. In this lucid and accessible study, Rebecca Goldstein, a philosopher of science and a gifted novelist whose work often focuses on science, explains the significance of Godel's theorems and the remarkable vision behind them, while bringing this eccentric, tortured genius and his world to life.

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