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I renewed my car insurance recently with AAA and noticed my member #
is 047. I found a piece of paper in my car the other day with
directions to a house that I have no idea whose it is or how it got
into my car. The house # 1047.

This afternoon a TV weather quiz had the question: "What's the coldest
temperature ever for this region in the month of August?"  The answer: 47
degrees!

In the syndicated Simpsons episode this evening, the kids' grandparents speak at
school.  Nelson's grandpa says he just sentenced someone to death, that makes 46
people he's killed, no, 47.  The classroom cheers loudly when he says "47". 
When his grandpa sits back down and Nelson says, "47!" with awe.

[ed note: A fantastic Simpsons 47.  I believe Nelson goes so far as to adoringly
exclaim "47! I love you grandpa!"]

I parked behind a car last night that had the liscence "ST TNG 74"



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I found some pages on another group that had some
interesting 47 coincidences. Here is a brief excerpt:
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At the turn of the last Century the famous
mathematician Hilbert presented a list of 23
mathematical problems. The 18th of these problems,
Kepler's Conjecture, can be phrased, Is there a better
stacking of oranges than the pyramids found at the
fruit stand? In pyramids, the oranges fill just over
74% of space. Can a different packing do better?
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Note the 23 (one half of 47 is 23.5) and 74%
Here is some more from another page:
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Harriot persisted. Kepler relented. In 1611, Kepler
wrote a little booklet, The Six-Cornered Snowflake,
that influenced the direction of crystallography for
the next two centuries. This slender essay was the
``first recorded step towards a mathematical theory of
the genesis of inorganic or organic form. (L.L. Whyte,
in The Six-Cornered Snowflake, Oxford Clarendon Press,
Oxford, 1966.) In a discussion of sphere packings, he
constructed the face-centered cubic packing. Kepler
asserted that it would be ``the tightest possible, so
that in no other arrangement could more pellets be
stuffed into the same container.'' This assertion has
come to be known as the Kepler conjecture. It went
without a proof for nearly 400 years, until August
1998, when I gave a proof with the help of a graduate
student, Samuel P. Ferguson.

Theorem (Kepler conjecture). No packing of balls of
the same radius in three dimensions has density
greater than the face-centered cubic packing.

The face-centered cubic packing is constructed by
setting one layer of balls upon another. Each layer is
a regular pattern of balls in a grid of equilateral
triangles. But there are other sphere packings that
have exactly the same density (p/Ö[18] » 0.74) as the
face-centered cubic packing. The best known
alternative is the hexagonal close-packing. Its
individual layers are identical to those of the
face-centered cubic. But the layers are staggered to
produce a different global packing with the same
density (Figure 2a and 2b). There is no simple list of
all packings of density p/Ö[18], but there are many
other possibilities. The density of the packing in
space is defined as a limit; and removing one, two, or
a hundred balls from the packing will not affect the
limiting density. Nor will removing an entire infinite
layer of balls.

This article gives the broad outlines of the proof of
the Kepler conjecture in the most elementary possible
terms. The proof is long (282 pages), and every aspect
of it is based on even longer computer calculations. A
jury of 12 referees has been deliberating on the proof
since September 1998. Nobody has raised doubts about
the overall correctness of the proof. And yet, to my
knowledge, no one has made a thorough independent
check of the computer code.
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In case you didn't catch them, the 47s are in the 0.74
mentioned, and 1611, the year that Kepler wrote his
booklet (the same year the King James version of the
Bible was written by 47 scholars, BTW)
  (611= 13x47) and 282 (47x6=282)
Here are the sites if you'd like to check them out
yourselves:

http://www.math.pitt.edu/articles/cannonOverview.html
http://www.math.pitt.edu/articles/harriotkepler.html

Judy




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"...You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you
have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the
universe is unfolding as it should..." from DESIDERATA by Max Ehrmann

"Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps the singing bird will come."
Chinese proverb




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"Dear Mr. President,

There are too many states these days. Please eliminate three."

101111

(we've been 47 nerds for over half of 47 years now)...

m.s.

P.S. Any other AGS bros on this list?

I've had the same number for 10 years.. just moved.. my new number
ends with 1477.. Woo Hoo!! :-)

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> number...  the last 2 digits are 47!
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At my ultrasound last week, the tech told me my baby is currently 7
lbs 4 oz.

I'm due to give birth any minute!

The terms of the tribonacci series are found in a manner reminiscent
of the Fibonacci series.  Each term of the Fibonacci series is the sum
of the previous _two_ terms, each term of the tribonacci series is the
sum of the previous _three_ terms.

The next three terms of a tribonacci series that begins term#0=0,
term#1=1, and term#2=1 are 2,4,7 (very kewl, isn't it Gene?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_series#Tribonacci_number

Such a series is also very cool because four terms are identical with
the Fibonacci series.  For kicks I've made a little table with ten
terms of each series below:

Term #   Fibonacci    Tribonacci
======   =========    ==========
    0         0              0
    1         1              1
    2         1              1
    3         2              2
    4         3              4
    5         5              7
    6         8             13            7        13             24
    8        21             44
    9        34             81

John Elway was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame
today and it was mentioned that he engineered 47 "game
winning or game saving" drives, more then any QB in history.

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Congradulations!

I hope all goes well.
I was 7 lbs. 4 oz at birth myself.

If you name the baby with a name that ends in DY, MY
or VY, it (those 2 letters) will have the
numerological value of 47. Same thing with DP,MP or
VP, but I don't know of many names ending that way!
(same with DG, MG, or VG) Maybe his/her initials could
turn out that way?
My youngest son was born on Aug 14, but he was due
8-8-88, which is supposed to be lucky according to
Oriental philosophy. He weighed 11 lbs 6 and a half
ounces at birth! Good thing he was the last of 4!
(611=13x47)

Born at his time in August, your baby would have the
Sunsign of Leo in Western Astrology. Leos can be a bit
difficult as babies because they LOVE attention, and
DEMAND attention if they don't get enough. They are
better off as the baby of the family, as it is hard
for them to have younger siblings as they want all the
attention to themselves and can feel left out if the
younger sibling gets it all. The solution is to make
sure they get LOTS of attention, but to lovingly
remind them that others need some too.
Judy

--- ai437 <ai437@...> wrote:

> At my ultrasound last week, the tech told me my baby
> is currently 7
> lbs 4 oz.
>
> I'm due to give birth any minute!
>
>
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have you ever seen alias serial on tv?
in each episode compares the number 47.in one episode in particular
there was the number 47911........4+7=11....11911 or 11
september!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I fiddled around and came up with this little tidbit:

74/47 = 1.574468085... which rounds to 1.57447 if you round to the fifth
decimal place.  The numerator and denominator appear together in the
decimal representation of the quotient!!!  Pi/2 is 1.5707963... which
is very close by as well.

my registration code to join ebay was 7747 :O

On Saturday, the U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team beat New
Zealand by a score of 99-47.

Hey All , sorry I don't post like I should , I read all though.  But I
see 47 all day everyday , I love it , it brings me comfort for some
reason. and I don't ever just look for it , or even think about it ,
until I look at  a clock  and BOOM there it is , and I drive around
atlanta A LOT for my job , and I never focus in on car tags or signs
with #s or equipment #s at all, but if I ever do it has a 47 in it ,
always getting change , or the price total will have in it . I still
have a 1947 Jeep I have had since I was 16 , they changed our exit #s a
few years back to coincide with the miles form state lines (like most
states ) and ...yep my town exit was changed to 47. the plant I pick up
parts at for my job is exit 47 ... I could write all night...
    Thanks to all
a fellow 47er
  Bryan

Where did they get that photo of a sign for a highway (US 47) that doesn't exist? 

In this movie with Tom Cruise the digital clock reads 4:47 am when he
calls the district attorney. check it out!!

On the August 23, 2004 episode of That 70's Show, Eric wears a red
jersey that has the number 47 on the front.