The worlds first riddle!

30 = Jumps in the Grand National
31 = Country Code for The Netherlands

26 is the only number to be directly between a square and a cube.
27 is the largest number that is the sum of the digits of its cube.
28 is the 2nd perfect number.
29 is the 7th Lucas number.
30 is the largest number with the property that all smaller numbers relatively prime to it are prime.



Mark:

27) the only 2-digit number of the form x^x
28) the second perfect number
29) the most points that can be scored in a cribbage hand


Whim:

30 = Jumps in the Grand National
31 = Country Code for The Netherlands (Not a lot of people know that, including me)




Will this nightmare never end?

31
32
33
34
35



Mark, well done with your 60 answer. You are indeed the master of the answer. That got me thinking:

I have 32 faces, meeting along 90 edges, forming 60 vertices.
32 plus 60 minus 90 = 2


So, what am I

31 = first number in this series that was eagerly answered in previous set
32 = chess pieces
33 = letters in the Ukranian alphabet
34 = number of bottles in a sovereign
35 = minutes in half a hockey game

A truncated icosahedron. It is most commonly seen as a soccer ball.

... I have 32 faces, meeting along 90 edges, forming 60 vertices.
32 plus 60 minus 90 = 2 ....



A bucky ball (C60)

As of-

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:08 am Post: 1337018 -

31. are the first 2 numbers of ur post count.
32. r the 2nd 2 numbers of ur post count.
33. r 2 of the numbers in ur post count.

1323<---Try's post count.--^


Try wrote:

"I have 32 faces, meeting along 90 edges, forming 60 vertices.
32 plus 60 minus 90 = 2


32+90+60+32+60 = 274 -2 = 272


"So, what am I"

(90) edges off from my post count, which is 272.

Tryagain, are you going to pay attention in class or not? .

10 bonus points for Try. If you take the 06 after my joined date, flip it to the left twice, you have the misplaced (90). Tryagain, you are one smart cookie! How do you do it? [size=7]Nothing like having to contort things so I can play.[/size]

31 is a Mersenne prime.
32 is the smallest 5th power (besides 1).
33 is the largest number that is not a sum of distinct triangular numbers.
34 is the smallest number with the property that it and its neighbors have the same number of divisors.
35 is the number of hexominoes.


Whim:

31 = first number in this series that was eagerly answered in previous set
32 = chess pieces
33 = letters in the Ukranian alphabet
34 = number of bottles in a sovereign
35 = minutes in half a hockey game


Bucky balls consist of 60 points on the surface of a spherical shape where the distance from any point to its nearest neighboring three points on the sphere is identical for all points.

You can't use that again if we reach 60. :wink:



Most enjoyable Whim.


Mark:

A truncated icosahedron. It is most commonly seen as a soccer ball.


The arrangement of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons is the only one that can easily be joined up to form a spherical shape. The same shape was used to arrange the explosives surrounding the plutonium core of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki!



Passing swiftly on - Hello Turtlette's lil' Angel, how many are there in your family? Last, I heard you were seven years old.


Turtlette wrote, "32+90+60+32+60 = 274 -2 = 272"

OMG not the dreaded form 272!

STANDARD FORM 272 (Rev. 7-97)272-103Prescribed by OMB Circulars A-102 and A-110
(THE AMOUNT SHOWNON LINE 11j, ABOVE,REPRESENTS CASH RE-QUIREMENTS FOR THE ENSUINGI certify to the best of my knowledge and belief that this report is true in all respects and that all disbursements have been made for the purpose and conditions of the grant oragreement.0.000.000.0000/00/2005
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Do not report interest earned on advances to States. Enter the amount of advance to secondary recipients included in item 11h.In addition to providing explanations as required above, give additional explanation deemed necessary by the recipient and for information required by the Federal sponsoring agency in compliance with governing legislation. Use plain sheets of paper if additional space is required. 3456711a11b11c11f11g11i11j1213a13b14


I do need the bonus points, coz I'm takin a hell of a hammerin from those guys.

"How do you do it?"

Just unlucky I guess. :wink:




I see light at the end of the tunnel.

36
37
38
39
40

36 = inches in a yard
37 = temperature of healthy human body
38 = Smith and Wesson gun
39 = books in the old testament
40 = hours in a work week

''Passing swiftly on - Hello Turtlette's lil' Angel, how many are there in your family? Last, I heard you were seven years old.''


Tryagain I have a lot of family members. I am an only child.

36 is the smallest number (besides 1) which is both square and triangular.
37 is the maximum number of 5th powers needed to sum to any number.
38 is the last Roman numeral when written lexicographically.
39 is the smallest number which has 3 different partitions into 3 parts with the same product.
40 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.



Whim:

36 = inches in a yard
37 = temperature of healthy human body
38 = Smith and Wesson gun (Don't forget Heinz 57 varieties)
39 = books in the old testament
40 = hours in a work week (I do that in a half week)

You do make me laugh, and they are all facts.


41
42
43
44
45

41 = number of electrons in a Niobium atom
42 = dots on a pair of dice
43 = United States presidents
44 = ?
45 = degrees in an octant

Do you folks know these answers off the top of your heads, or do you look some of them up?

Hi Turtlette, how are you today? Well I hope.

Whilst the others know the answers, I have to look them up. For example: Whim left out 44. If you carry out a search on 44 you will get;129,000,000 hits.

Enough to come up with something special I think.

44) the smallest number to use the first four Roman numerals (XLIV)

Whim:

41 = number of electrons in a Niobium atom *
42 = dots on a pair of dice (I can hardly wait should we reach 63)
43 = United States presidents
44 = ?
45 = degrees in an octant

* number 41. Niobium (or columbium) ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Nb. Atomic number 41. It may also have 41 protons. However, I very much doubt it has, "41 electrons"


# Extra credit:
How much heavier (or lighter) is an atom of niobium (at no. 41) compared to a phosphorus atom (at no. 15)


I casually said, "If you carry out a search on 44 you will get;129,000,000 hits. Enough to come up with something special I think."


Mark: (In an effort to prove me right) Came up with:

44) the smallest number to use the first four Roman numerals (XLIV)


TITI LIVI AB URBE CONDITA LIBER XLIV PERIOCHA



Now, for something completely different.


46
47
48
49
50

"Hi Turtlette, how are you today? Well I hope."

Better than some, worse than others. I guess that put's me in the middle somewhere.

"Whilst the others know the answers, I have to look them up. For example: Whim left out 44. If you carry out a search on 44 you will get;129,000,000 hits."

Thats alotta results!

Enough to come up with something special I think.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.

Hmm, thinking.

46 = chromosomes in a human cell
47 = Lenghth of Berlin wall in kilometers
48 = months in an olympiad
49 = seven squared
50 = cubits, width of Noah's ark

46 is the number of different arrangements (up to rotation and reflection) of 9 non-attacking queens on a 9x9 chessboard.
47 is the largest number of cubes that cannot tile a cube.
48 is the smallest number with 10 divisors.
49 is the smallest number with the property that it and its neighbors are squareful.
50 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 2 squares in 2 ways.


Whim:

46 = chromosomes in a human cell
47 = Lenghth of Berlin wall in kilometers
48 = months in an olympiad (Perhaps, that should be :between)
49 = seven squared
50 = cubits, width of Noah's ark

Fantastic.

We have unfortunately lost Mark, will Whim fall by the wayside? Now, the most difficult half.

51
52
53
54
55

I just lost an interesting post. That's what I get for derailing a thread.