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TonyCool
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Registered: December 2002
Location: New York City
USA
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 Posted - 02/08/2004 : 20:31:52
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I'm just doing this in order to have a total of 602 posts thus far. Why did I announce it? Maybe it's because the number 602 means a lot to me. Why? Well you can guess right here...
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Edited by - TonyCool on 04/03/2005 00:11:24
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Jill the Pill
Undercover Agent
Registered: July 2002
Location: Washington State
USA
Posts: 2281 |
Posted - 02/09/2004 : 11:43:44
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Is 602 your room number at school? Just a stab in the dark, mind you...
I'm approaching 1000 soon, egad! And to think I've actually slowed down on posting! (Not intentional, just been busy mostly.) |
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26376
Undercover Agent
Registered: August 2002
Location: Illinois
USA
Posts: 673 |
Posted - 04/02/2005 : 16:35:11
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Shouldn't the title of this thread have been "My 602nd post"? You wouldn't say "sixth hundred twoth" in English; you'd say "six hundred second".
The ordinal appendation should be "th" for most numbers, including everything 0 (mod 10), 4 (mod 10), 5 (mod 10), 6 (mod 10), 7 (mod 10), 8 (mod 10), 9 (mod 10), 11 (mod 100), 12 (mod 100), and 13 (mod 100). It should be "st" for all numbers 1 (mod 10) which are not 11 (mod 100), "nd" for all numbers 2 (mod 10) which are not 12 (mod 100), and "rd" for all numbers 3 (mod 10) which are not 13 (mod 100).
Of course, that's the complicated rules in English. French, for example, is much simpler: the ordinal suffix is "er"/"ère" for 1 and one only, and "ième" for all other numbers. So while English has "first (1st)", "eleventh (11th)", and "twenty-first (21st)", French is "premier/première (1er/1ère)", "onzième (11ième)", and "vingt-et-unième (21ième)". French also considers it corrent to abbreviate the full "ième" ordinal with a superscript "e", so "quatre-vingt-dix-septième" could also be written as 97[sup]e[/sup]. |
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TonyCool
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Registered: December 2002
Location: New York City
USA
Posts: 2655 |
Posted - 04/03/2005 : 00:11:58
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| Thank's for pointing that out! Got it fixed just now. |
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slai
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Registered: August 2002
Location: dx*dp ~ h
USA
Posts: 2223 |
Posted - 04/04/2005 : 17:06:00
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Hi Jason,
quote:
Originally posted by 26376
Shouldn't the title of this thread have been "My 602nd post"? You wouldn't say "sixth hundred twoth" in English; you'd say "six hundred second".
You should have seen this 'parody' awards show they had on Game Show Network/GSN several years back. They called it The TWOTH Annual Petey Awards. I really wanted to strangle that title  !
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Res4cue
Herr Capitan
Registered: August 2004
Location: New York New York-So Good They Named it Twice
USA
Posts: 1682 |
Posted - 04/09/2005 : 19:11:06
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GOod stuff Tony! Now, you've almost doubled from 602! Are you gonna put one up at 1204?
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Res4cue
Herr Capitan
Registered: August 2004
Location: New York New York-So Good They Named it Twice
USA
Posts: 1682 |
Posted - 08/06/2005 : 15:31:03
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Now.... My 655th post!!!
-Joe
P.S. 6.02 x 10^23 is Avogadro's Number, I believe. |
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Primary Consult
Assistant Chief
Registered: May 2002
Location: Albany·NY
USA
Posts: 746 |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 15:23:08
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And now my 602nd post...
Yup, that's Advocato's number. |
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TonyCool
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Registered: December 2002
Location: New York City
USA
Posts: 2655 |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 00:52:14
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The Petey awards? What ae they, again? And what exactly is Avogadro's number, if I may inquire?
As for 602, my family has long since moved away for good (well it wasn't so good for us) from the building in which that room was located. New management forced my dad to surrender his rent-stabilized apartment, so our link to the building is over. Although I kept my keys, only as a souvenir. |
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slai
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Registered: August 2002
Location: dx*dp ~ h
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Posts: 2223 |
Posted - 08/15/2005 : 16:26:51
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Hi Tony,
Wow, what a long spaced question (i.e. time wise that is)  ! I posted that 4 months ago!
Back when GSN was a young satellite/cable channel, to get people to watch the network, GSN employed a primitive form of interactive TV. GSN would, ACK  , edit the game shows they were showing, like Match Game or Password, and interrupt them with long lengthy live TV segments hosted by ex-Press Your Luck host, Peter Tomarken. Viewers who called in at the right time would get to play a question game live with Tomarken via touch-tone phone to win 'fabulous' prizes such as watches, encyclopedia sets, etc.. After GSN gave away $1 million worth of prizes, they drew someone from their pool of previous contestants for a trip to Switzerland. Tomarken would also show up in the bumper segments between GSN shows.
In some kind of lame effort to draw viewers away from the Academy Awards one year, GSN aired The Twoth Annual Petey Awards, a mock awards show hosted by Tomarken and his wife. Awards that look like those fake statuette awards you can buy at Suncoast with a medallion adorned by Tomarken's face instead of a star were given out to such catagories as best inclusion of a farm animal in conversation  ! The running joke of the night was that Tomarken didn't win an award for himself, but his wife did  !
Avogadro's number is ~6.02 x 10^23 units/mole. Scientists use Avogadro's number as the base number of atoms in a unit called a mole. For 1 mole of hydrogen, there are 6.02 x 10^23 atoms in that unit. For 1 mole of sodium, there are 6.02 x 10^23 atoms. Chemists use moles to calculate reactions between chemical substances in those equations you see like:
Na + Cl = NaCl
It takes 1 mole of sodium plus 1 mole of chlorine to make 1 mole of sodium chloride/table salt. Since each element has a different density, this requires different masses of said substances to make the reaction work without having 'leftovers.' Avogadro's number is normalized or defined as the number of carbon-12 atoms in 12 grams, and that equals ~6.02 x 10^23. Avogadro's number also found its way into physics equations for gases since it bridges the gap, so to speak, between the metric system and atoms. Nowadays, Avodagro's number is more accurately measued as the x-ray diffraction distances between atoms in salts and metals. I have NO idea how this is derived, but it's apparently more accurate than trying to count the actual number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 !
I hope that helps instead of making things more confusing.
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