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27litres

4th November 2017 11:10 AM

What's significant about 138,082.35 miles?

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Well it reads like this on a km/h Speedo:

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...0&d=1509797377

moltuae

4th November 2017 12:51 PM

+++

I was expecting the answer to be that it reads as something upside down.

You know, like we all did in school on our pocket calculators: 58008.618

Or was that just my school? ...

Dezzy

4th November 2017 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by moltuae (Post 134558)

+++

I was expecting the answer to be that it reads as something upside down.

You know, like we all did in school on our pocket calculators: 58008.618

Or was that just my school? ...

What else would you use a calculator for:Confused:

27litres

4th November 2017 09:22 PM

The other one I remember was 710.77345.
There used to be a story attached that would run you through calculations that would result in that answer - buggered if I can remember the story!

The story leading to Mark's answer is called "Adolescence" - or maybe "Testosterone"!

The modern kids miss out on that stuff, iPads don't display the old digital figures on their calculator screen!

Mmm... 5318008! :D

moltuae

5th November 2017 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by 27litres (Post 134578)

The modern kids miss out on that stuff, iPads don't display the old digital figures on their calculator screen!

Yeah, they can get all the 5318008 they want now, in HD.

We had to use out imaginations! :D

I'd forgot about the Shell Oil one and the "magical sum" that produced it (which was quite obviously derived by working backwards from the answer).

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