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Interestingly, a lot of questions about "how many X" end up with "one" as the answer. > Question: How many primates does it take to cause endless grief to a ne
by hurflmurfl 4y ago
Interestingly, a lot of questions about "how many X" end up with "one" as the answer.
> Question: How many primates does it take to cause endless grief to a neighbouring eastern european country?
> Answer: 1
> Question: How many cello strings can vibrate at the same time?
> Answer: 1
> Question: How many stem cells does it take to generate an eye ball?
> Answer: 1
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> Question: How many downvotes will this comment get on hackernews?
> Answer: 0
- legohead 4y agoThat was my first question: > Question: How many people are alive? > Answer: 1 I thought it was a pretty profound answer.
- lloeki 4y agoSounds like we're all the same endlessly reincarnated single person, only at different points in spacetime. Cue one-electron universe: > The one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. According to Feynman: >> I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!"
- feet 4y agoI asked the question simply: "How many?" The answer is apparently 1.
- gpcr1949 4y agoGood to see the results respect Benford's law and are therefore not fabricated.