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May 25, 2010#1

General Specific

Dear Dave,

I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 273 quadrillion. Guess it and you will win a prize!

May 25, 2010#2

Dave

42.

May 25, 2010#3

General Specific

Usually yes, today, no. It's too easy of an answer.

May 25, 2010#4

Cajungal

17?

May 25, 2010#5

drawn_inward

3.14

May 25, 2010#6

Baerdog

May 25, 2010#7

Calleja

it's 42, even if you say it isn't, it is.

May 25, 2010#8

Soliloquy

The Mex said:
it's 42, even if you say it isn't, it is.

Man has a point.

May 25, 2010#9

tegid

7, 13 or 17. (billion?)

May 25, 2010#10

Hylian

48456418543216941654641654616461365416515364651654684981979875132135468416354168416574984165198432196874865198419874619877897749654165416315641651646154845641854321694165464165461646136541651536465165468498197987513213546841635416841657498416519843219687486519841987461987789774965416541631564165164615

May 25, 2010#11

drawn_inward

Eleventy one

May 25, 2010#12

Soliloquy

Hylian said:
48456418543216941654641654616461365416515364651654684981979875132135468416354168416574984165198432196874865198419874619877897749654165416315641651646154845641854321694165464165461646136541651536465165468498197987513213546841635416841657498416519843219687486519841987461987789774965416541631564165164615

That's outside the given range.

May 25, 2010#13

General Specific

Soliloquy;389755][QUOTE=Hylian said:
48456418543216941654641654616461365416515364651654684981979875132135468416354168416574984165198432196874865198419874619877897749654165416315641651646154845641854321694165464165461646136541651536465165468498197987513213546841635416841657498416519843219687486519841987461987789774965416541631564165164615

That's outside the given range.[/QUOTE]

Yes, a quadrillion is 10^15 or 1,000,000,000,000,000

So, the number is between 1 & 273,000,000,000,000,000

May 25, 2010#14

Hylian

General Specific;389774][QUOTE=Soliloquy;389755][QUOTE=Hylian said:
48456418543216941654641654616461365416515364651654684981979875132135468416354168416574984165198432196874865198419874619877897749654165416315641651646154845641854321694165464165461646136541651536465165468498197987513213546841635416841657498416519843219687486519841987461987789774965416541631564165164615

That's outside the given range.[/QUOTE]

Yes, a quadrillion is 10^15 or 1,000,000,000,000,000

So, the number is between 1 & 273,000,000,000,000,000[/QUOTE]

I know it was outside the specified range I was just bored adn having a little (very little) fun

May 25, 2010#15

Philosopher B.

24 reversed. 44-2. 38+4.

May 25, 2010#16

General Specific

I do have an actual number in mind, it is not 42 or any variation of 42

May 25, 2010#17

Hylian

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May 25, 2010#18

Calleja

It's still 42.

May 25, 2010#19

General Specific

Ok, so Hylian got it. Now he just has to tell me which one was the correct answer. And no fair listing all of the numbers in separate posts.

May 25, 2010#20

Hylian

General Specific said:
Ok, so Hylian got it. Now he just has to tell me which one was the correct answer. And no fair listing all of the numbers in separate posts.

69?
666?

May 25, 2010#21

General Specific

Nope to both, reopened to everyone else.

May 25, 2010#22

Calleja

My guess: 42

May 25, 2010#23

Sparhawk

31 or 13

May 25, 2010#24

Calleja

May 25, 2010#25

HCGLNS

36 24 36

May 25, 2010#26

Philosopher B.

May 25, 2010#27

Wasabi Poptart

May 25, 2010#28

Rovewin

30 or 29

May 25, 2010#29

Calleja

Hmm.. tough one.

I'll go with...... oh, I know! 42!

May 25, 2010#30

David

The Mex said:
Hmm.. tough one.

I'll go with...... oh, I know! 42!

May 25, 2010#31

Calleja

Hey, it's Towel Day. It's my duty.

Also:

May 25, 2010#32

Allen, who is Quiet

Well, if I were General Specific from the future, and I needed to prove that General Specific that I'm General Specific, I'd be thinking "69, dude"

May 26, 2010#33

Hylian

May 26, 2010#34

drawn_inward

May 26, 2010#35

Covar

May 26, 2010#36

Sparhawk

100

May 26, 2010#37

Baerdog

May 26, 2010#38

Sparhawk

May 26, 2010#39

Hylian

777

May 26, 2010#40

Calleja

I'm gonna go with....

72!!!

(ha, didn't expect that, did ya?)

May 26, 2010#41

Hylian

what about 24?

May 26, 2010#42

drawn_inward

45.

May 26, 2010#43

Sparhawk

May 26, 2010#44

Philosopher B.

420.

May 26, 2010#45

Tinwhistler

May 26, 2010#46

Hylian

Tinwhistler said:

Already tried that one

May 26, 2010#47

Tinwhistler

oh, doh.

May 26, 2010#48

Hylian

Tinwhistler said:
oh, doh.

http://www.halforums.com/forum/show...ng-of-a-number&p=390368&viewfull=1#post390368

May 26, 2010#49

General Specific

ok, well I hadn't been checking in on this thread, so I just looked and still no one has gotten it.

May 26, 2010#50

Sparhawk

May 26, 2010#51

Hylian

36?

May 26, 2010#52

Baerdog

May 26, 2010#53

Tinwhistler

Hylian;390434][QUOTE=Tinwhistler said:
oh, doh.

http://www.halforums.com/forum/show...ng-of-a-number&p=390368&viewfull=1#post390368[/QUOTE]

42?
:lol:

May 26, 2010#54

Null

Thirty-seven?!

May 26, 2010#55

Allen, who is Quiet

May 26, 2010#56

Gusto

If it's 52 I'm gonna flip my shit.

May 26, 2010#57

Element 117

General Specific said:
Dear Dave,

I'm thinking of a number ...

*starts hitting General Specific with the cricket bat* BEGONE YE FOUL DEMONS OF DIGITS!

May 26, 2010#58

Sparhawk

May 26, 2010#59

Calleja

I can't believe this thread has 2 pages.

May 26, 2010#60

Sparhawk

May 26, 2010#61

General Specific

Hylian said:
36?

36?

36!

Now that's all i can think about!

I'll kill you, you no good 36-in'

Hehe, but seriously, no still not it.

May 26, 2010#62

Calleja

GODDAMIT GEN, STOP THIS TOMFOOLERY AND JUST TELL US ALREADY! THERE IS NO PRIZE!

May 26, 2010#63

Element 117

*stabs Genspec*

May 26, 2010#64

General Specific

NO! It shall go on until I *gets stabbed* ow...

May 26, 2010#65

Sparhawk

May 26, 2010#66

Element 117

*stabs Genspec with Sparhawk*

May 26, 2010#67

Calleja

And that must hurt, too, look at how round and un-edged he is.

May 26, 2010#68

General Specific

Better than when she stabbed me with a bus that one time

May 26, 2010#69

Sparhawk

May 27, 2010#70

Hylian

May 27, 2010#71

Sparhawk

May 27, 2010#72

Element 117

*stabs GenSpec with a bus*

May 27, 2010#73

General Specific

...two times

May 27, 2010#74

Hylian

May 27, 2010#75

sixpackshaker

14?

as in years old?

May 27, 2010#76

Element 117

69.
or
*stabs Genspec with another bus. Full of used needles*

May 27, 2010#77

General Specific

...oh god, the pokey bus of unimaginable pain and suffering

May 27, 2010#78

Hylian

48?

oh just tell us the $%@! number already!

May 27, 2010#79

sixpackshaker

420?
4,200
42,000
420,000
4,200,000
42,000,000
420,000,000
4,200,000,000
42,000,000,000

May 27, 2010#80

drawn_inward

May 27, 2010#81

sixpackshaker

Thank you for breaking the board.

May 27, 2010#82

Element 117

I thiink that fixed it.

but yes, i think putting pi to that many decimal places kills the board worse than longcat/nate/lever and should probably be banned after 10 decimal places.

May 27, 2010#83

Calleja

Who broke the board? I missed it :humph:

May 27, 2010#84

Element 117

The Mex said:
Who broke the board? I missed it :humph:

That would have been me, and posting pi as close as I could get to a million places. Returned many database errors I probably should have known what that would have done in advance, but I had to delete the message to fix it. Moment of idiocy, mine.

May 27, 2010#85

Calleja

lmao, a MILLION? Forget the board, you probably fried the CPU of several posters who have older machines.

May 27, 2010#86

Element 117

The Mex said:
lmao, a MILLION? Forget the board, you probably fried the CPU of several posters who have older machines.

Wow, I didn't know people surfed the net using ENIAC.

May 27, 2010#87

Calleja

May 27, 2010#88

sixpackshaker

I have V.20.1 of that.

May 27, 2010#89

tegid

May 27, 2010#90

Sparhawk

91

90

89

May 27, 2010#91

Hylian

79?

May 27, 2010#92

drawn_inward

Xiaofang Nuren;390756][QUOTE=The Mex said:
Who broke the board? I missed it :humph:

May 27, 2010#93

Sparhawk

88

87

86

May 27, 2010#94

Element 117

I was going for a very specific number.

May 27, 2010#95

Null

May 27, 2010#96

Sparhawk

85

84

83

Jun 19, 2010#97

Drachenherz

This thread rises the urge in me to stab genspec 42 times with 42 busses filled with 42 zombies each wielding 42 chainsaws with rusty sawblades...

Jun 19, 2010#98

Element 117

he really needs to answer this thread with the number he was thinking of.

Jun 19, 2010#99

Calleja

I think the number was a lie!

Jun 22, 2010#100

General Specific

It was not. I still remember the number, but holy shit, let it go. It's long since stopped being fun.

Jun 22, 2010#101

Element 117

General Specific said:
It was not. I still remember the number, but holy shit, let it go. It's long since stopped being fun.

you taunt the OCD.

*force choke*

Jun 23, 2010#102

Calleja

TELL US WHAT THE DAMN NUMBER IS GORRAM IT

Jun 23, 2010#103

Hylian

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1000?

Jun 23, 2010#104

General Specific

Ok, yes, Hylian, it is one of those numbers, which one?

Jun 23, 2010#105

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#106

General Specific

YOU MUST GUESS!

Jun 23, 2010#107

Hylian

39?

Jun 23, 2010#108

General Specific

Jun 23, 2010#109

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#110

General Specific

"AAUGH" is not a number.

Jun 23, 2010#111

Hylian

82?

Jun 23, 2010#112

General Specific

Jun 23, 2010#113

Hylian

73?

Jun 23, 2010#114

General Specific

nope

Jun 23, 2010#115

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#116

General Specific

Jun 23, 2010#117

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#118

General Specific

nope

Jun 23, 2010#119

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#120

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nyet

Jun 23, 2010#121

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#122

General Specific

non

Jun 23, 2010#123

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#124

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nein

Jun 23, 2010#125

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#126

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いいえ

(supposedly, that is Japanese for "no" but I'm using babelfish to translate it, so it could be very wrong)

Jun 23, 2010#127

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#128

General Specific

negatory

Jun 23, 2010#129

Hylian

Jun 23, 2010#130

Element 117

By choosing not to end this, you bring pain to us all. *stabs Genspec in the armpits and elbows*

Jun 23, 2010#131

General Specific

Hylian said:
8?

no

---------- Post added at 03:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:59 PM ----------

B.T. said:
By choosing not to end this, you bring pain to us all. *stabs Genspec in the armpits and elbows*

I was fine with letting it go and having the thread be unanswered, but someone had to resurrect it.

Jun 23, 2010#132

Element 117

So, we're back to hating each other. I see how it is. *takes toys, goes home*

Jun 23, 2010#133

Null

Richard Petty? (43)

Jun 23, 2010#134

fade

8 15 16 23 42

Jun 23, 2010#135

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Null said:
Richard Petty? (43)

YES! 43!! THAT'S IT!!

I didn't choose it because of Richard Petty, but whatever works.

Jun 23, 2010#136

Null

Wow. Gen made it rain.

Jun 23, 2010#137

Hylian

General Specific;404172][QUOTE=Null said:
Richard Petty? (43)

YES! 43!! THAT'S IT!!

I didn't choose it because of Richard Petty, but whatever works.[/QUOTE]

Jun 23, 2010#138

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B.T. said:
So, we're back to hating each other. I see how it is. *takes toys, goes home*

I don't hate you. Come back!

Jun 23, 2010#139

Element 117

General Specific;404203][QUOTE=B.T. said:
So, we're back to hating each other. I see how it is. *takes toys, goes home*

I don't hate you. Come back!

[/QUOTE]

No waai. I still remember what you said about me on KK forums, and I'mma dredge that pain up for all the fake drama I can.

Jun 23, 2010#140

Null

I don't know, the drama llama's looking fairly pudgy as it is.

Jun 23, 2010#141

Calleja

Wait... hadn't someone guessed 43 before!? I thought all the "next to 42" options had been tried!!!

Jun 23, 2010#142

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B.T.;404212][QUOTE=General Specific;404203][QUOTE=B.T. said:
So, we're back to hating each other. I see how it is. *takes toys, goes home*

I don't hate you. Come back!

[/QUOTE]

No waai. I still remember what you said about me on KK forums, and I'mma dredge that pain up for all the fake drama I can.[/QUOTE]

Jun 23, 2010#143

Element 117

Null said:
I don't know, the drama llama's looking fairly pudgy as it is.

if there was a crack you would not want to open yourself to, Nullo,

Jun 23, 2010#144

Null

B.T.;404223][QUOTE=Null said:
I don't know, the drama llama's looking fairly pudgy as it is.

if there was a crack you would not want to open yourself to, Nullo,[/QUOTE]

Go ahead and take your shots. I know I'm disgustingly fat, so does everyone else. If the words hurt, they hurt.

Jun 23, 2010#145

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Calleja said:
Wait... hadn't someone guessed 43 before!? I thought all the "next to 42" options had been tried!!!

I went back through to checked and no, 43 was not tried until Null got it. 42 was tried...repeatedly... And 41 was guessed, also by Null, but no one had tried 43 until he did.

Jun 23, 2010#146

Hylian

General Specific;404594][QUOTE=Calleja said:
Wait... hadn't someone guessed 43 before!? I thought all the "next to 42" options had been tried!!!

I went back through to checked and no, 43 was not tried until Null got it. 42 was tried...repeatedly... And 41 was guessed, also by Null, but no one had tried 43 until he did.[/QUOTE]

Well technically I guessed 43 along with a huge list of other numbers :humph:

Jun 28, 2010#147

General Specific

yes, but you didn't say 43 when I asked which one of the huge list it was, so it didn't count.

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