A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Math - Playing Devil's Advocate Started conversation Jan 10, 2003
The proof is Jim Lynn U6
Math
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
six7s Posted Jan 10, 2003
However, as Tango pointed out in *Multiple numbers* F64903?thread=234022, adding 4,294,967,296 (2^32) to any U-number will link to the same space
Therefore:
*Normal* U-number: U6
*Additional* U-number: U4294967302
4294967302 ==>> many possible 42isms
such as...
[( 4 + 2 - 9 + 4 ) * 6 * 7 ] + [ 3 * 0 * 2 ] = 42 
six7s 
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Jan 15, 2003
Also each User number can be padded out to 6digits (or more probably) with the addition of leading 0s.... This means that even the italics can be 42'd/...
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U000006 = ((0!+0!+0!)! + 0! + 0) x 6 = 42
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
six7s Posted Feb 2, 2003
Experiment:
does 2^64 do the same thing?
U6 
6 + 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 ==>> U18446744073709551622 ??
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 15, 2003
Blimey it does too.... How about 2^42....
That'd be:
4398046511104+6 = U4398046511110
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 15, 2003
as...
So mine would be: U4398046588184
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 15, 2003
Wahay that works too....
Oh, and how comes between the 2nd to last and the last posting I just made, the system thought I'd logged out (it didn't recognise me!), but when I clicked on Sign in nothing happened - except I (eventually) got redirected back to my user space!!!! 
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
AK - fancy that! Posted Oct 17, 2003
Note: It is my guess that the reason this thing with the unumbers happens is that 2^32 is the maximum value for an variable in the programming or something and after that it wraps back around. I'm not nearly sure though but this seems to be a reasonable guess, as in C++ its, I believe, 2^31 for integers and considerably more for other variable types. no reason why perl or pascal or whatever wouldn't do this too...
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
AK - fancy that! Posted Oct 18, 2003
oh, and about nto all u numbers being able to be manipulated...
U1=invtan(0!)-0!-0!-0-0-1 or the like... it'll do almost all the low ones...
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 27, 2003
Quite...
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
AK - fancy that! Posted Oct 27, 2003
I've myself don't beleive I've ever seen a calculator that does invtans... is whoever should be sure about it sure about it? that invtan(1)=45?
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 28, 2003
Windwos Calc does InvTans ... Put 1 in then click on the INV tick box, and hit Tan...
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 28, 2003
Ahm taht's in Scientific Mode...
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Nov 12, 2003
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days ! Posted May 31, 2015
Cool old Guy 
calculating
"Does not work anymore 
Current we have a truncate to 2^31-1 = 2147483647
Or any U number higher then 2^31-1 will render to < U2147483647 >
NB current New this week is < U15001293 >"
Not all U numbers can be so manipulated.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 14, 2018
So, back in 2015 we had over 15,000,000 registrations? Wow... (ah, does that include all the Beeb registrations?)
anyway: U15001293 = [(15 + 0 + 0) * (2+1)] - (9/3) = 42!
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- 1: Math - Playing Devil's Advocate (Jan 10, 2003)
- 2: six7s (Jan 10, 2003)
- 3: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Jan 15, 2003)
- 4: six7s (Feb 2, 2003)
- 5: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 15, 2003)
- 6: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 15, 2003)
- 7: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 15, 2003)
- 8: AK - fancy that! (Oct 17, 2003)
- 9: AK - fancy that! (Oct 18, 2003)
- 10: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 27, 2003)
- 11: AK - fancy that! (Oct 27, 2003)
- 12: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 28, 2003)
- 13: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Oct 28, 2003)
- 14: AK - fancy that! (Oct 28, 2003)
- 15: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Nov 12, 2003)
- 16: Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days ! (May 31, 2015)
- 17: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 14, 2018)
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