xkcd #2922: Pub Trivia
xkcd #2922: Pub Trivia
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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
Leap day babies?
A friend of mine has his birthday on feb 29th. He was turning 49 and me and my gf showed up to his party with balloons with the number 12 on them (since that's how many actual birthdays he'd had).
8 is yes, but I don't have enough space to fit the proof in a post.
Today I triggered a guy who hates FTP and he gave me 4 whole nested comments ranting about how bad it is under the hood. Maybe you just don't wanna fit the proof.
Easy, only relevant part: defined as being > 1
from the explanation:
This is a famous, centuries-old open question in math known as Goldbach's conjecture. Mathematicians widely believe that it is true,it has held true for every number checked up to 4 ⋅ 1018, but since it's impossible to check every number, we can't assume it's universally true
Way more than enough to make any thing true on the interweb these days
4 is a trick question. Both had zero shark attacks, the so-called "shark" in Jaws was in fact a symbol of predatory capitalism and its amoral violence against the proletariat
5: originally? None. They say there were no stars or planets. Also time and space came to be afterwards.
Edit: I just read the explainxkcd, I get it now. :)
- Don Majkowski threw a game winning touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe in 1989 but the points were taken away as an illegal forward pass penalty, until later they saw the replay footage and awarded the points post game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Replay_Game There were 37 seconds left when it was overturned--not post game.
Number 7 is gonna be a real question one day. Wonder whether it'll be pneumatic tubes or matter transporters that gets there first?
Nah, small airplanes are relatively easy to build. Even if we eventually stop large-scale production there'll always be the occasional hobbiest putting a one-seater together.
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Production models.
Regarding 4. Do lawyer attacks count as shark attacks?
Regarding #9's alternative, "Not counting Canberra, what city was the most recently founded state capital of Australia?" is a bit of a bad question in and of itself, given that Canberra isn't a state capital, since the ACT isn't a state but rather a territory of Australia (alongside the Northern Territory).
- More than 3
8 (about Goldbachs conjecture) is one that I don't quite get. Isn't the number 8 already proof that this isn't true (sum of 4+4)?
Huh, I figured neither movie was a Spielberg movie. Turns out both are
He really has a thing for including shark attacks in all his movies, if you pay attention there's tons of subtle shark stack references in all of his films.
Yeah it was a fucking massacre in the opening scene of saving private ryan.
*Angry Santos Dumont sounds*
- 2
Inside and outside
- 2
Then what happened?
Was there like a second panel with a punchline for this one...?
Ten punchlines aren't enough for you?
1 isn't considered a prime number so three can't ve constructed from just primes
I am disappointed in Lemmings' collective lack of Savvy regarding math trivia.
Next thing you'll be telling me you don't know how to prove there's an infinite number of prime twins.
