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(1) the 16th letter of the greek alphabet

(2)the consonant sound represented by this letter

(3)the ratio of a circle

or spelled as pie

(1) a baked food having a filling of fruit,meat,pudding,etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pasty crust: apple pie; meat pie.

(2) a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie.

(3) a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie

(4) an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too.

(5) pizza

 

Clearly you should not be joking about this ;

Those d**n aussies!

Melody! Explain yourself!

Why on earth did you guys have to choose 999 instead of 666?

Is it because you're on the upside-down part of the earth?

BTW, this is actually quite funny;

Haha actually I was not referring to that.

In the book of revelations the number 666 is considered 'the mark of the beast'.

That's the reason 666 is considered evil whereas 777 is considered it's counterpart (777 is related to the 7th rest day).

Just like 11 is connected to craziness and 13 to bad luck 666 is often connected to evil.

Now I am curious how you guys went from 666 to route 66?

Reinout 

p.s. The final episode of 'route 66' aired in 1964 so I don't think there are many people at this forum that know the series 

well, 7/10 = 0.7 so 3 7/10 = 3.7.

I'm not sure what I can explain about this, it seems pretty straight forward...

Mathematically;

a light year is the distance light travels in a year.

Since light travels at 299 792 458 m / s

And there are 60*60*24*365,25 = 31557600 seconds in a year (note that once every four years there are 366 days and therefore there are (366+365+365+365)/4 = 365.25 days in a year)

A light year is about 299 792 458*31557600 = 9.46 × 10¹⁵ meters

Since you're going 120 times as fast, your final speed is 120*9.46 × 10¹⁵ = 1.135*10^18 meters per second

That's more than 1 quintillion 135 quadrillion meters per second!

Now we go to the physics though.

einstein thought of the both praised and cursed formula E = mc². The effect of this formula is that once an object tries to travel near the speed of light it's mass will heavily increase. If an object would be able to travel at the speed of light, it would have infinite mass and the energy required to move it would also be infinite.

This is the part where we meet the real sci-fi.

NASA is experimenting with methods to travel faster than light.

How?

You'll have to think in 4 dimensions.

Suppose you have a pen travelling across a paper, then there's a speed limit to how fast the pen can move. But what if we were to move the paper aswell? Then the pen wouldn't travel faster than the speed limit, but it would get faster from point A on the paper to point B.

Now in our world, the idea is that it is possible to create a certain 'bubble' of the space which makes the 'ship' go faster from one side of the bubble to the other. Therefore, inside the 'bubble' the ship won't be faster than the speed of light. 

The whole theory hangs on the idea of the existance of negative energy, which is needed to create the bubble. Anyway, there's still a chance we might one day see the other end of the universe! 

Here's where you can read about it;

Hmm, not really sure what I should simplify here,

$${\frac{{\mathtt{24}}}{{\mathtt{103}}}} = {\mathtt{0.233\: \!009\: \!708\: \!737\: \!864\: \!1}}$$

and 103 is a prime number so there's no simpler fraction I could make of this.

You're welcome.

You could've googled it though, it's a pretty well known math mistake to trick people. 

You're making the wrong addition here,

The money you need to put together to pay your parents back is

49+49-1 = 97, because you already have 1 dollar.

Because you keep 1 dollar to yourself and only give 2 dollars to your parents

the money you still need to pay back to your parents is $98 (of which you already have 1 dollar)

The t-shirt shop has 97 dollars, your mum has 1 dollar, your father has 1 dollar and you have 1 dollar which totals 100 dollars.

To summarize, there is no missing dollar. 

Reinout