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Peej ( Keeper of cakes, and treasurer to the Black Hole Escape Committee ) Started conversation Mar 4, 2002
< Peej (who is alright despite being a Goo fanatic) enters, looks around the page with a hint of disgust at the lack of Goo >
Hello 6.48,
What *I* want to know is, how come, what with you being the ace mathematician that you are and all that, you *still* haven’t worked out how to calculate 42 out of your user ID ?
< Sits back with a 
and a smug grin on his face >
( That’ll keep her busy for a while …. )
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6.48etc - Quartermaster and Chief Teamaker of the B.H.E.C. Keeper of Unnecessary Name Badges Posted Mar 4, 2002
I'm not a Mathematician, I'm a statistician. 
This means that I'm too busy working out the probability that there is an easy way to make 42 out of my user number than bothering to actually do it.
I'm sure I'll get round to it one day.
Probably. (in fact there is an 89% chance I will, and a 40% chance I'll do it by the end of the week)
6.48074069840786
6.48etc for short
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6.48etc - Quartermaster and Chief Teamaker of the B.H.E.C. Keeper of Unnecessary Name Badges Posted Mar 5, 2002
In fact, at the moment I'm a very busy mathematician trying to study discrete modelling and all this thinking is making my feel 
.
This is how I look today 
I'll give a prize to anyone who can do it without using base 13.
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Peej ( Keeper of cakes, and treasurer to the Black Hole Escape Committee ) Posted Mar 6, 2002
Actually, I've wasted *far* too much time already trying to do it in base 10.
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- 1: Peej ( Keeper of cakes, and treasurer to the Black Hole Escape Committee ) (Mar 4, 2002)
- 2: 6.48etc - Quartermaster and Chief Teamaker of the B.H.E.C. Keeper of Unnecessary Name Badges (Mar 4, 2002)
- 3: 6.48etc - Quartermaster and Chief Teamaker of the B.H.E.C. Keeper of Unnecessary Name Badges (Mar 5, 2002)
- 4: Peej ( Keeper of cakes, and treasurer to the Black Hole Escape Committee ) (Mar 6, 2002)
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