{"id":1630,"date":"2005-05-08T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2005-10-29T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T04:57:56","slug":"number-nerdery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"number nerdery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The expansion of the universe manifests in odd ways.<\/p>\n

From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i> (1979):<\/p>\n

. . . two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine [276709 = 17·41·397] to one against. <\/p>\n

By a totally staggering coincidence, that is also the telephone number of an Islington flat . . . <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m fairly sure that the number in the recent movie had more digits than that, beginning with 20, which since 2000 April 22<\/a> is the code for greater London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The expansion of the universe manifests in odd ways. From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979): . . . two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine [276709 = 17·41·397] to one against. By a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}