Re: OT: the Monkey Year (wasRe: Religion and Holidays)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 20:57 |
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:18:34PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> With the, to my mind, fairly major difference that arcs are artefacts of the
> Earth's motion, while the constellations would remain unchanged if the solar
> system were blasted out of existence.
Good luck finding the reference point from which those constellations *look*
like constellations without the solar system to go by. :) But pax.
> Ah ... I was trying to connect it too the numbers of fingers _and_ toes.
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> (I arrived at 1024 as 4^5 - ie the number of sets to the number of members of
> each set.)
Huh, I don't see how that is relevant. 5^4 = 625 would seem to be more
meaningful than 4^5. What physical set of combinations does 4^5 represent?
Anyway, if you include toes, you can count all the way up to a million. :)
More, actually, to 2^20 = 1,048,576. :)
-Mark
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