Tag: Numbers

13 years ago: bought delightful $1 art cards from Brevki on eBay. Today: Brevki is selling conceptual ownership of the number 4 for $4,444.44.

Yesterday's Blackwing promotion had an unintended meaning for their "10.01.10" pencil.

Today is day 169 of 2025. That's 13² in the year of 45². There's something beautifully nerdy about living through a square year and marking all its square days. Most people stopped memorizing squares at 144, making 169 obscure.

Did you know 2025 is a square year? That’s right! 45 × 45 = 2025. The last one was 1936, and the next won't be until 2116.

Mark April 7, 2025 on your calendar. It will be the 97th day of the year, which is is the 25th prime number.

12/3/45 will occur on this day in 21 years. I put it on my Google Calendar, do you want it on yours? I'll send you an invite.

Have you seen this tool where you can figure out the location of a photo based on the shadow? It’s amazing. (video explainer) Although for it to work, you also need to know the exact time the photo was taken.…

Why Chicago has the digits 3, 1, 2 in their area code

What if all the people who tweeted the first 280 digits of pi actually knew them by heart, and typed them in manually?

What would you do with 5-10 million expired coupons EVERY WEEK?

As your kids get older, you continually get younger.

When you are chatting and you want to really emphasize a year, but you only have plain text at your disposal. No bolding. No bigger words. How do you really punch up that year? Let’s take a page of the…

Ever notice the ID number in a tweet’s URL? Take a look at the URL structure for a tweet. Here’s a tweet I made today: https://twitter.com/spudart/status/1237129038994575360 Every tweet is assigned a unique ID number. Over time, this ID number increases…

I love it when dates fall into neat equations like this. Today is a wonderful multiplication day. ↓ TranscriptEtym: Today's date, February 8, 2016 is 2x8=16

Today is the 736,000th day since Jan 1, 0001! I went to timeanddate.com to double-check the math. On their homepage, they have a promo to print our 2016 calendar (archived screenshot). At first glance when I saw the image, I…

I want to own the hashtag #iiinccccreeeeedddddddddiibbbbbbllllleee Take the word “incredible” and merge it with the number for pi. The frequency of each letter corresponds to the number in pi 3.141592653 + incredible = iiinccccreeeeedddddddddiibbbbbbllllleee Now that is #iiinccccreeeeedddddddddiibbbbbbllllleee I…

Happy 30th birthday for the 8th time! Perhaps you’ve heard this joke. But what if this was really true? Perhaps there could be a number system that counts that way. Instead of counting on 1s, you count on 10s. What…

Don’t you love it when your age is a prime number? I do. Currently I’m 37, a prime number! That only happens twice in your thirties (the other age being 31). Which decade of your life has the most prime…

When the numbers in the current day make an interesting combination, it’s always neat to acknowledge that day. For instance, July 8, 2009 is 07/08/09. It’s fun to get a memoir recording that unique date, because it happens only once!…

In the news highlights, I saw a Bulls player wearing what appeared to be number 23. Upon a closer look, his uniform number was revealed to be Marquis Teague wearing 25. Maybe the Bulls should retire all the numbers in…

Earlier in the day I tweeted about thinking of trying to get a receipt with 8/10/12 14:16. But who has receipts with 24-hour time? I should try to get a receipt timestamped 8/10/12 14:16 — Matt Maldre (@spudart) August 10,…

I should memorize my credit card number, but I’m afraid of doing so in case I get kidnapped and they try to torture the number out of me. I think about it almost every time I enter in my credit…

Is 12 noon pm or am? I always get confused. Who would be the best person to help me out? None other than the people at AM/PM gas stations. Here is a series of letters I have written for AMPM…

Precisely it would take 105,714,892,800 sticky notes to cover every square inch of Chicago. How did I come with that? 3 inch x 3 inch sticky note 63,360 inches per mile 63,360/3= It takes 21,120 stickies lined up to cover…

Watching your weight every day is fine, but a more effective method is to see your trend over the past week. Using the new maldre math operation, you can effectively analyze your weight once a week. Almost every day on…

I reached 12345 messages in my m***@spu***rt.org inbox. It looks kinda cool. Note, this is not my regular gmail. This inbox is for m***@spu***rt.org, hosted by google’s gmail. It’s my general email address I use to sign up for everything.…

Jawaese is the language that Jawas speak in Star Wars. They are desert scavengers. Selling what they find. Thus numbers are very important to them. Here’s how to count to ten in Jawaese: 1 Po 2 Ko 3 Kyo 4…

In honor of 11/11/10, I bring you the tweets at significant numbers. Tweet #100. Twitter was really exciting at the start. Tweet #1,000. The first people on twitter were party animals! Tweet #10,000. Curbing your wheels? The one billionth tweet.…

Type an equation into Google’s searchbar, and it will do the math for you. Sometimes I like to type in goofy equations like, “111,111,111 x 111,111,111” The result is rather striking. Does anyone have any cool one-line math equations to…

I waited on the CTA Red Line to text my number-loving friend Tom on 09/09/09 at 09:09am. He texted me first. At exactly 9:09.

Happy 123456789 day! In honor of this great day, I tried to get a receipt with this historic timestamp. Here’s the adventure tweeted live at @spudart on twitter 10:17:58 07/08/09 I’m gonna buy a donut at Dunkin Donuts today and…