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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by archgoon on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:31PM (#3515024)
It's necessary that one number is absent. The period is 2997 as he mentions. Can't pack 1000 3 digit numbers into that ;)
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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by Generic_Name on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:36PM (#3515043)
Chuck Norris could :P
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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by Generic_Name on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:03PM (#3516190)
No sense of humor. Seriously.
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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by mindcrime on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:32PM (#3516280)
It isn't about having, or not having, a sense of humor. It's just that Hacker News culture prides itself on maintaining a certain decorum to the discussion here... and it doesn't include internet memes, Chuck Norris jokes, or a lot of the other frivolous stuff that's accepted on Reddit, Digg, Slashdot, etc.

It's not that people here are stuffy, or humorless, or anything; we just want HN to be different, and not decay into a festering cesspool of malfeasance like Slashdot or whatever. There are plenty of places one can go to get that kind of stuff on the 'net. Here at HN, it will usually be downvoted mercilessly.

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Re:Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising... by TheSOB88 on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:36PM (#3516290)
You're right - posts with nothing but a joke aren't really acceptable here. We want to discourage that sort of thing.
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