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Just 5 years away from being 12345
by otherayden 1y ago
Just 5 years away from being 12345
- bitwize 1y agoThat's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
- dx4100 1y agoSame as my bank pin too!
- DonHopkins 1y agoNow your balance is 00000!
- fugalfervor 1y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted for quoting Spaceballs.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 1y ago[flagged]
- bitwize 1y agoPresumably because it's "not the kind of discussion we want to foster here at HN".
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- ldjkfkdsjnv 1y agothis made me laugh
- coolcase 1y agoIt's a Fibonacci sequence number of decades though Just think: number of earth revolutions between this event and now minus the number of earth revolutions since Jesus Christ divided by number of fingers and thumbs on a human written out in base (number of fingers and thumbs on a human) is a sequence where each digit is the sum of the previous two digits. What are the chances?
- jstanley 1y agoFor your specific case: maybe 1 in 10000. Or 1 in 5000 because "11230" would fit just as well. So about 13 bits of improbability. But your hypothesis took a lot more than 13 bits to encode! It would be better compressed to say "Just think: 12350. What are the chances?" That an elaborate explanation can be found to fit a number is not that surprising when you consider how many possible elaborate explanations there are. See also https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/05/the-pyramid-and-the-garden/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/05/the-pyramid-and-the-ga...