21 thoughts on “1001 to go!”

  2. It is an even 1000 as I speak. You should be able to get this just with people in the building?

      2. I heard that before as why do software engineers confuse Christmas with Halloween??

    2. Fairly easy to work out the 11 on the grounds that 1001 is 10^3 + 1^3 which factors to
      (10+1)(10^2-10+1)

    3. This is the basis for a range of “party tricks” where you challenge the straight man to give you a 3 digit number, and you’ll multiply it in your head by 7, then 11, then 13 and write the number on a hidden card. So you do that then give the straight man a calculator and get them to work through the calculation, slowly and painfully. Write down the intermediate results, and ham it up a bit, then reveal your written down answer, which is correct. With luck, the audience have forgotten the original 3-digit number.
      There are a number of extensions to this game, but none with such conveniently manageable primes involved.

  6. How does one find out if one is a subscriber?
    I think I am, but I’m not 100% sure.

      1. I get occasional e-mails, but not for each post. Does that make me a non-subscriber or not-yet subscriber?
        If so I’ ll make it just 1000 to go.

        1. There is also an option to group the mails into a daily “digest” mailing, IIRC.

      2. I only subscribe to comments, not to Jerry’s posts that I track via RSS. I guess I’m not counted as a subscriber, even if I read nearly every post here?

        1. Oh, I didn’t notice who I replied to. Then of course I would’ve written “your posts”. 🙂

  7. It was 101, and I remember my elementary teacher lecturing us that “one hundred and one” was bad English. She told us the proper way to say it was “one hundred one.”

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