Talk:2313: Wrong Times Table - Revision history

GetPunnedOn at 23:08, 20 May 2023

2023-05-20T23:08:50Z

172.69.69.220 at 06:56, 9 June 2020

2020-06-09T06:56:45Z

172.69.68.57: It's Satire, y'all

2020-06-09T05:30:35Z

It's Satire, y'all

162.158.155.80 at 12:21, 7 June 2020

2020-06-07T12:21:14Z

172.69.71.56: Fixed spelling

2020-06-04T15:02:02Z

Fixed spelling

172.69.71.56 at 15:00, 4 June 2020

2020-06-04T15:00:46Z

162.158.79.15 at 10:38, 4 June 2020

2020-06-04T10:38:38Z

Argis13 at 23:22, 3 June 2020

2020-06-03T23:22:46Z

N0lqu at 16:55, 3 June 2020

2020-06-03T16:55:16Z

N0lqu at 16:49, 3 June 2020

2020-06-03T16:49:49Z

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	I immediately interpreted this comic as a social commentary about the increasingly subjective ("feeling"-based approach) our world leaders and their influencees have to well established fact. This may not be the author's intention but it left me feeling satirically satisfied.		I immediately interpreted this comic as a social commentary about the increasingly subjective ("feeling"-based approach) our world leaders and their influencees have to well established fact. This may not be the author's intention but it left me feeling satirically satisfied.
	[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.57\|172.69.68.57]] 05:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)		[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.57\|172.69.68.57]] 05:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	I STILL get 7x7 as 42 in my head sometimes.
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-I immediately interpenetrated this comic as a social commentary about the increasingly subjective ("feeling"-based approach) our world leaders and their influencees have to well established fact.  It may not be the author's intention but it left me feeling satirically satisfied.
+I immediately interpreted this comic as a social commentary about the increasingly subjective ("feeling"-based approach) our world leaders and their influencees have to well established fact.  This may not be the author's intention but it left me feeling satirically satisfied.
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	Hmmm. I'm sure these some logic to these numbers, we just can't see it. I 'feel' they're not random. Anyway, who can get their one times table wrong ? Also, is there anything solid about the text being a H2G2 reference ? Other than the mention of 42 ? Does H2G2 mention 56 ? And why do the whole multiplications of 6's, 7's and 8's (yeh I know, errant apostrophe's but it feels better this way) get people (including me) all at {{w\|all sixes and sevens\|sixes and sevens}} (apparently worldwide - Chinese & Russians too). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.80\|162.158.155.80]] 12:21, 7 June 2020 (UTC)		Hmmm. I'm sure these some logic to these numbers, we just can't see it. I 'feel' they're not random. Anyway, who can get their one times table wrong ? Also, is there anything solid about the text being a H2G2 reference ? Other than the mention of 42 ? Does H2G2 mention 56 ? And why do the whole multiplications of 6's, 7's and 8's (yeh I know, errant apostrophe's but it feels better this way) get people (including me) all at {{w\|all sixes and sevens\|sixes and sevens}} (apparently worldwide - Chinese & Russians too). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.80\|162.158.155.80]] 12:21, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	I immediately interpenetrated this comic as a social commentary about the increasingly subjective ("feeling"-based approach) our world leaders and their influencees have to well established fact. It may not be the author's intention but it left me feeling satirically satisfied.
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	All of use who spent a few hours trying to find a formula have been nerd-sniped. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.56\|172.69.71.56]] 15:02, 4 June 2020 (UTC)		All of use who spent a few hours trying to find a formula have been nerd-sniped. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.56\|172.69.71.56]] 15:02, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Hmmm. I'm sure these some logic to these numbers, we just can't see it. I 'feel' they're not random. Anyway, who can get their one times table wrong ? Also, is there anything solid about the text being a H2G2 reference ? Other than the mention of 42 ? Does H2G2 mention 56 ? And why do the whole multiplications of 6's, 7's and 8's (yeh I know, errant apostrophe's but it feels better this way) get people (including me) all at {{w\|all sixes and sevens\|sixes and sevens}} (apparently worldwide - Chinese & Russians too). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.80\|162.158.155.80]] 12:21, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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	Oh, haven't had a "Randy, get out of my head" moment for a while. After the rhyme and reason of 5x5 and 6x6 the multiplication by 7 has always felt off to me, too.		Oh, haven't had a "Randy, get out of my head" moment for a while. After the rhyme and reason of 5x5 and 6x6 the multiplication by 7 has always felt off to me, too.

−	All of use who spent a few hours trying to find ~~the answer~~ have been nerd-sniped. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.56\|172.69.71.56]] 15:00, 4 June 2020 (UTC)	+	All of use who spent a few hours trying to find a formula have been nerd-sniped. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.56\|172.69.71.56]] 15:02, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

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	Oh, haven't had a "Randy, get out of my head" moment for a while. After the rhyme and reason of 5x5 and 6x6 the multiplication by 7 has always felt off to me, too.		Oh, haven't had a "Randy, get out of my head" moment for a while. After the rhyme and reason of 5x5 and 6x6 the multiplication by 7 has always felt off to me, too.
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		+	All of use who spent a few hours trying to find the answer have been nerd-sniped. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.56\|172.69.71.56]] 15:00, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

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	"The title text (referencing Randall's suspicion that 6x7=42 may be wrong) is an allusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Are we sure that this is an allusion to HGG? Not everything that has 42 is an allusion to HHG, there's no mention of the ultimate question or answer, nothing but a comment that 6x7 doesn't feel like it should be 42. Seems pretty irrelevant to include it in the explanation.[[User:Argis13\|Argis13]] ([[User talk:Argis13\|talk]]) 23:22, 3 June 2020 (UTC)		"The title text (referencing Randall's suspicion that 6x7=42 may be wrong) is an allusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Are we sure that this is an allusion to HGG? Not everything that has 42 is an allusion to HHG, there's no mention of the ultimate question or answer, nothing but a comment that 6x7 doesn't feel like it should be 42. Seems pretty irrelevant to include it in the explanation.[[User:Argis13\|Argis13]] ([[User talk:Argis13\|talk]]) 23:22, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Oh, haven't had a "Randy, get out of my head" moment for a while. After the rhyme and reason of 5x5 and 6x6 the multiplication by 7 has always felt off to me, too.

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	"...this probably doesn't mean anything." Douglas Adams himself confirmed that the 6*9 in base 13 was a coincidence. He said himself in a BBC interview, "I don't make jokes in base thirteen." --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.26\|108.162.237.26]] 02:22, 2 June 2020 (UTC)		"...this probably doesn't mean anything." Douglas Adams himself confirmed that the 6*9 in base 13 was a coincidence. He said himself in a BBC interview, "I don't make jokes in base thirteen." --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.26\|108.162.237.26]] 02:22, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	"The title text (referencing Randall's suspicion that 6x7=42 may be wrong) is an allusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Are we sure that this is an allusion to HGG? Not everything that has 42 is an allusion to HHG, there's no mention of the ultimate question or answer, nothing but a comment that 6x7 doesn't feel like it should be 42. Seems pretty irrelevant to include it in the explanation.[[User:Argis13\|Argis13]] ([[User talk:Argis13\|talk]]) 23:22, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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 ::I wouldn't say it's weird, but maybe you don't get it because you're better at the memorisation or multiplication that we were taught in school.  Try spending a few hours working in base nine or base thirteen, you might see how you commonly make the same errors.  I know that I have difficulty with multiplying even small numbers, so I take longer to do it so I infrequently make these common errors.  But I do like to work in other bases occasionally so I can vaguely relate to the subject matter of this comic.  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.41|162.158.74.41]] 18:20, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 ::I never fully memorized the times tables, to this day (50+ years later) I use tricks...  7*6?  Well, I know the 5's, and 7*5=35, so now add another seven.... 42?  I've always preferred to understand how to get to an answer than to memorize the answer, for some reason.  Stuff I use frequently or that are especially useful (i.e. 5's) I end up memorizing of course, but things like 7's not so much.  I suspect Randall is the same way. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 16:49, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 Well, 2,2 that's actually 2^3=8. 2,3 is addition instead of multiplication. 1,2 is division instead of multiplication. 1,1 is subtraction. 10,10 seems to be a visual gag, though most of the 10s row is either multiplication by 11 or 12... There's some logic to some of these, but it's different for each row, column, or cell. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.167|162.158.74.167]] 21:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)