In the pilot episode of The Chronicle: When telling his girlfriend that he got the job at the Chronicle, Tucker Burns, the lead character, said he'd "been...
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Sam Kennedy
samrolken@...
Aug 16, 2001 8:29 pm
The Washington Post is carrying its own copy about a planetary system very similar to Sol in the Big Dipper. 47 Ursae Majoris has at least two large gas giants...
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Joe Faust
joefaust@...
Aug 17, 2001 5:01 pm
And guess what identification number is on that lifeguard stand? Yep! "47". 'tis true. (actually planes fly out over a few stands, but the most northerly one...
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Peter Josephs
pete_josephs@...
Aug 18, 2001 6:39 pm
I had never heard of the 47 Society until I browsed the internet this morning casually looking for interesting facts about numbers and came upon this site. ...
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OscarQ47@...
Aug 20, 2001 12:11 am
The Long Island Expressway, or the LIE (Interstate 495) serves Nassau and Suffolk Counties as the backbone of Long Island, New York. Driving through Nassau...
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Sam Kennedy
samrolken@...
Aug 24, 2001 2:58 am
They have many 47s in their customer service phone numbers... one in particular is (800) 247-4747!! Check them all out at http://www.fedex.com/us/customer/...
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Ian Aseltine
k00ia01@...
Aug 27, 2001 8:08 pm
One of the winning numbers in powerball on saturday was 47. I don't know how often this has happened, but I though, "Of course."...
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alasdairgr@...
Aug 27, 2001 8:09 pm
Hi, I have been enjoying the random but common occurrance of the number 47 for quite some time, as have my buddies Best and Fairon. Here are some RANDOM 47...
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faironc@...
Aug 28, 2001 6:02 am
Greetings fellow 47 enthusiasts. I'd like to give a shout out to Al and thank him for sharing his recent sightings of the number during his everyday life. I...
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faironc@...
Aug 28, 2001 6:02 am
I was registering at my new school today, and I had to give them a transcript from my old school, and my student code number was 247! I felt a great sense of...
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doughafen@...
Aug 28, 2001 6:03 am
47 is at the end of the first Cunningham chain. The members of the chain are { 2 , 5 , 11 , 23 , 47 } Note the important number 23 also appears!...
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skenny47@...
Aug 29, 2001 5:34 am
I have been a "fan" of 47 for nearly 20 years now ever since I first met Pomona College Grad, and special Friend Eric Level. Recently, I discovered I have been...
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Terry Trotter
ttrotter@...
Aug 29, 2001 5:35 am
Hello everybody, I just wish to pass along a piece of "prime number" trivia that I found in Prime Curios (http://primes.utm.edu/~caldwell/curios/index.php) It...
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jmcd4747@...
Aug 29, 2001 5:35 am
Newt has posted 47 reviews at amazon.com, making him number 473 of contributors....
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doughafen@...
Aug 29, 2001 10:03 pm
I was actually looking for instances of "89", one of my favorite numbers, and was reading the AAA tourbook for Tourist Attractions along Calif. route 89. I...
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OscarQ47@...
Aug 30, 2001 2:24 am
I recently had to take my car in for service. When I dropped it off at the dealer, the service guy gave me a "key tag" for claiming the car. I noticed that...
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doughafen@...
Aug 30, 2001 11:31 pm
"47" appeared in the first ever California lottery on 10/18/1986. For the first 9 California Lottery Drawings (all in 1986), "47" occurred most frequently...
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Paul Nagai
paul@...
Aug 31, 2001 7:03 pm
247' of course. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010831.html ... Paul Nagai: paul@......
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Rich Meyer
rich47@...
Aug 31, 2001 7:10 pm
Danny Almonte, the Little Leaguer of dubious age, was born either 4/7/89 or 4/7/87. http://www.msnbc.com/news/620276.asp...
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aberland@...
Sep 1, 2001 8:48 pm
from the August 30 publication of Nature... Earliest malaria DNA found in Roman baby graveyard Alison Abbott Malaria experts are helping archaeologists to work...
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claravista@...
Sep 2, 2001 8:42 pm
Regarding item "roman babies", notice also: 22 = 11 + 11, and 11 = 4 + 7. [The experts think the tiny skeletons — including the bones of 22 miscarried...
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doughafen@...
Sep 6, 2001 6:33 pm
I was driving around town with a parking tag on my windshield for half a day. The tag was a sore reminder that I had lost the part of the ticket I was...
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banai@...
Sep 9, 2001 9:05 pm
I missed a phone call while in the shower today. I have caller ID. The number was 494-9494. (Math reminder: 47x2...
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doughafen@...
Sep 13, 2001 4:44 pm
My favorite numbers are 23, 47, and 89. All three are primes. All three have two digits that are adjacent on the numeric keypads of phones, calculators, TV...
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Sam Kennedy ;Eric Lev...
levine47@...
Sep 13, 2001 4:44 pm
The third tower to collapse due to the disgraceful terrorist attacks, Tower Five... well, who can guess how many stories it had? -Sam Kennedy More than 4,700...
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doughafen@...
Sep 16, 2001 2:10 am
The number 47 occurs in natural phenomena!!!!! 19 years is very nearly equal to 235 lunar months. (Note: 235=5x47) The 19-year cycle was discovered by the...
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banai@...
Sep 17, 2001 1:48 am
In Hardball, the new Keanu Reeves movie, at the very beginning, he owes some money and the guy shows up at his place to collect. Keanu's character says he'll...
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mrice@...
Sep 18, 2001 3:56 pm
Egyptian editor sentenced to prison...
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Terry Trotter
ttrotter@...
Sep 20, 2001 3:49 pm
I have just found out (from the Prime Curios website) that the largest prime of the form "a^a + b^b", where a and b are one-digit positive integers, has a...
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skotadia@...
Sep 20, 2001 3:52 pm
It's my door number, the end of my phone number, appears readily in my life. It appears in my closest friends' numbers, it's everwhere. I was on holiday in...
