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1 707 would be a nice plane to own, not to big but I could still fit all my stuff in it, if I ever had to vanish without a trace. Although I don't know if my cows would get air sick. That could be a mess, better forget the whole thing.
 
1709 AD

The town of Herculaneum is rediscovered. It had been buried like Pompeii in year 79 AD by the eruption of mount Vesuvius in the Roman Empire.

HugDoggy said:
1 707 would be a nice plane to own, not to big but I could still fit all my stuff in it, if I ever had to vanish without a trace. Although I don't know if my cows would get air sick. That could be a mess, better forget the whole thing.
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1 707 would be a nice plane indeed, you got a 1 708 though. ?
 
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Tailo said:
1709 AD

The town of Herculaneum is rediscovered. It had been buried like Pompeii in year 79 AD by the eruption of mount Vesuvius in the Roman Empire.


1 707 would be a nice plane indeed, you got a 1 708 though. ?
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Damn it, I studied calculus at uni and I can't even add 1. I'm going to blame the late hour.
 
Oh no! I don't know what number to put now.:gsd_shocked: watchytyyy put a duplicate number (same mistake I did last night) and now ZooNinja has followed on do I put 1716 or 1717 which is where I think we are supposed be up to, or 1721 to get back in sync with the thread count. Am I over thinking this bit of fluff and nonsense?
 
In 1721 A small pox out break in Massachusetts Bay Colony killed 844 people, which sounds pretty slack when you consider covids-19's productivity and work ethic when it comes to thinning out the human herd.
 
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HugDoggy said:
In 1721 A small pox out break in Massachusetts Bay Colony killed 844 people, which sounds pretty slack when you consider covids-19's productivity and work ethic when it comes to thinning out the human herd.
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I'd always choose CoViD-19 over smallpox though. I am glad they eradicated smallpox completely with vaccinations.
 
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Tailo said:
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I'd always choose CoViD-19 over smallpox though. I am glad they eradicated smallpox completely with vaccinations.
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I wouldn't put it past some of the nasty bugs from the past to return, when you get silly people who don't believe in vaccinating their children or their animals. Herd immunity only goes so far.
 
Hardy used to visit [Ramanujan], as he lay dying in hospital at Putney. It was on one of those visits that there happened the incident of the taxi-cab number. Hardy had gone out to Putney by taxi, as usual his chosen method of conveyance. He went into the room where Ramanujan was lying. Hardy, always inept about introducing a conversation, said, probably without a greeting, and certainly as his first remark: 'I thought the number of my taxi-cab was 1729. It seemed to me rather a dull number.' To which Ramanujan replied: 'No, Hardy! No, Hardy! It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'

(from C. P. Snow's foreword to G. H. Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology")
 
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