An interesting number - 147

[Ashles]

Let me introduce you all to my lucky number - One Hundred and Forty Seven - 147.

Soon you will see this number everywhere.

147

 

[Interesting Ian]

Let me introduce you all to my lucky number - One Hundred and Forty Seven - 147.

Soon you will see this number everywhere.

147

You were watching the snooker as well?

 

[Ashles]

Re: Re: An interesting number - 147

You were watching the snooker as well?

That's weird.

147 has been my favourite number since I was about 7, simply because it was my locker number, and I subsequently liked the way the numbers looked when you placed them on top of each other.

I have since always been interested as to how often it seems to come up within random numbers and everyday situations.

But it had bizarrely never occurred to me that it is the maximum break in snooker.
Did that happen tonight?

 

[Luke T.]

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[Luke T.]

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[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Don't forget the 147 Consortium:

http://www.worlddab.org/eureka.aspx

and Saros 147:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros147.html

~~ Paul

 

[Skepiroth]

 

[Chemical_Penguin]

And don't forget 147 bottles of beer on the wall...






...but of course if one of those bottles should happen to fall...

 

[flume]

seven squared times 3.

 

[-42-]

147. In case of insurrection, invasion, war, rebellion, tumult, riot, breach of the peace, public calamity or catastrophe, or imminent danger thereof, or in the event of emergency in which all or any part of the militia is actively engaged in service upon order of the Governor, the Governor may suspend any and all provisions of this division or other laws of the State which require advertisement for bids for purchases of supplies or employment of services.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=26264227994+19+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

 

[AOK Tiger]

Don’t forget Saros 147

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros147.html

or

Insulcast 147 Epoxy

http://www.insulcast.com/epoxy/ic147fr.html

 

[joyrex]

That's cool. I have an attachment to the number 174 (since year 1994 or so). I use it in roman numeral form with my e-mail addresses, for example.

 

[Mojo]

Re: Re: Re: An interesting number - 147

That's weird.

147 has been my favourite number since I was about 7, simply because it was my locker number, and I subsequently liked the way the numbers looked when you placed them on top of each other.

I have since always been interested as to how often it seems to come up within random numbers and everyday situations.

But it had bizarrely never occurred to me that it is the maximum break in snooker.
Did that happen tonight?

The maximum possible break in snooker is not 147; it's 155.

I don't think anybody has ever achieved it though. It requires a foul by the opponent leaving a free ball before a red has been potted, thus enabling one of the colours to be taken as an extra red, followed by the black, followed by the reds/blacks as for a 147 break.