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[H Koppinen]

So I started wondering why exactly 7981686 c-bills. So I googled it and turns out 7981686 is an unlisted Montreal area phone number. So naturally I dialed it but it was only some lady in a law firm. I was expecting something a bit more exciting.

So what is the actual secret meaning of 7981686?

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Bryan: Paul! We need to help new players! They can't make enough money to buy a mech!
Paul: Well why don't we just give them an arbitrary amount of money so they can buy a mech?
Bryan: Good thinking! Make it so!
Paul: Lulz, ok *starts mashing buttons on a line of code*
Bryan: So, how did it go? What did we come up with?
Paul: Uhh... let me check *reads the number he mindlessly mashed in*
Byran: 7,891,686? Perfect. Good work Mentlegen

Edited by mwhighlander, 17 December 2012 - 01:11 PM.

[Kraven Kor]

Probably that this is the number the math nerds arrived at when asked to provide an average for number of C-Bills gained in the first 25 matches?

Nah, we've all seen Lost, there must be some sekrit...

[Team Leader]

The number of seconds left until the end of the world?

[CDLord HHGD]

Team Leader, on 17 December 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

The number of seconds left until the end of the world?

Nope, that's just over 92 days (unless the Mayans were wrong ).

[Felicitatem Parco]

cdlord, on 17 December 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

Nope, that's just over 92 days (unless the Mayans were wrong ).

What happens at the end of December 31st?

OMG, the calerdar ends! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!

Oh, wait, calendars just keep going after you get to the end of one... nm, we're fine.

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UPDATE: Check this **** out! I did a biomedical research records search for our magic number. It's a Conspiracy, Man! They're trying to refine ways to scan our DNA for defects to eliminate all the non-Bloodname-worthy forumites!

Hum Mol Genet. 1994 Jul;3(7):1155-61.
A YAC-based binning strategy facilitating the rapid assembly of cosmid contigs: 1.6 Mb of overlapping cosmids in Xp22.

Wapenaar MC, Schiaffino MV, Bassi MT, Schaefer L, Chinault AC, Zoghbi HY, Ballabio A.

Source

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.

Abstract

We have applied a yeast artificial chromosome (YAC)-based cosmid isolation and binning strategy to convert a YAC contig in Xp22 into 1.6 Mb of overlapping cosmids. This strategy is based on the screening of a high-density arrayed X chromosome-specific cosmid library with large YAC-derived restriction fragments and entire YAC probes. Cosmids selected in this way were gridded on dot blots and further mapped into bins defined by the overlap intervals of the YACs and YAC fragments. This rapid binning of cosmids simplified the subsequent assembly of cosmid contigs by restriction fingerprint hybridization. In total, we identified 139 cosmids spanning the entire 1.6 Mb region with a minimal overlap set of 53 clones. These cosmids were assigned to 17 bins and 9 contigs. One of the contigs is 665 kb in length and is one of the largest uninterrupted cosmid contigs in humans reported to date. The gaps between the contigs are minor and, together, they represent less than 7% of the region covered. Two previously identified genes are contained in these cosmids, the gene for amelogenin (AMG) and the recently isolated putative chloride channel gene CICN4. In addition, two disease loci have been mapped to this region: X-linked ocular albinism type 1 (OA1) and the microphthalmia with linear skin defects (MLS) syndrome. The assembly of the cosmid maps allowed us to determine the size of the deletion intervals for these two loci, which were estimated to be 110 kb for OA1 and 570 kb for MLS.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

PMID: 7981686

(oh yeah, moving to Off Topic ;-)

Edited by Prosperity Park, 17 December 2012 - 01:37 PM.

[Bryan Ekman]

LOG10(# matches remaining) * 300,000

[Parnage Winters]

Stop ruining the fun...I had a great theory on space lizards and the dutchy of Luxembourg.

Edited by Parnage, 17 December 2012 - 01:48 PM.

[Hawkwings]

Bryan Ekman, on 17 December 2012 - 01:44 PM, said:

LOG10(# matches remaining) * 300,000

# matches remaining? Anyone have any idea what that is?

Also, what's with this favoritism for log base 10? What's wrong with base 9, base 11, base 2, or base 27? Pah, figures those damn Canadians with their metric and their powers of 10 would show this kind of blatant favoritism. Or should I say favouritism?

Everyone knows that the only fair log base is e, thus giving us ln, the natural log.

[Ken Fury]

Hawkwings, on 17 December 2012 - 01:58 PM, said:

# matches remaining? Anyone have any idea what that is?

Also, what's with this favoritism for log base 10? What's wrong with base 9, base 11, base 2, or base 27? Pah, figures those damn Canadians with their metric and their powers of 10 would show this kind of blatant favoritism. Or should I say favouritism?

Everyone knows that the only fair log base is e, thus giving us ln, the natural log.

Well there are 25 Matches with Cadet Bonus, if you have not used up all 25 Matches then 25 will be the #.

[Loc Nar]

log base 10

wait, isn't log base 10 just log? So confused! >_<

[H Koppinen]

And I was so ready to receive my brilliant easter egg paintjob or something. I should have asked the law-firm lady about that but the international phoneline was so poor quality it's probably best not to, I think she was confused enough already what with my accent and everything.

Also if I ever were to receive an easter egg paintjob it would have to be easter chick yellow. For the longest time I have said that I will lay down serious MC for a PM Yellow paintjob for my mech. But very disappointingly the yellow we get is not PM at all, just a toned down shade. I would really like my bright yellow.

[Star Captain Obvious Kerensky]

Because 8,675,309 was too many c-bills.

[Hawkwings]

Eldragon, on 17 December 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

Because 8,675,309 was too many c-bills.

Good sir, I believe you have just won the thread.

[Woky]

Thontor, on 18 December 2012 - 06:16 AM, said:

hmmm

Can't seem to get this to work no matter what I try

LOG10(X) * 300 000 = 7981686 solve for x?

[Woky]

I got that as well, so maybe403,292,364,848,225,043,980,007,447.15604 is the new secret number

Edited by Woky, 18 December 2012 - 08:31 AM.