YKYHBPTMNH

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lmfback wrote:
> So at least I'm among the first (in the first million or so then?) to
> coin a new word.

Congatulations. A most spundiculous achieverisation.

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lmfback wrote:

>I then promptly announce I'm goofamous.
>
>
Ummm...that just rhymes too closely with doofus.
I prefer "googlmous".....

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lmfback wrote:
>
> I then promptly announce I'm goofamous.

Nice word. May I borrow it for a day or two?

> Which after realizing what a
> wonderful word it is, I promptly googled for and didn't find any hits.
> So at least I'm among the first (in the first million or so then?) to
> coin a new word. And since I couldn't care less about fame on google or
> the amount of goo found there I just had to come here and tell you this
> IMHO amusing anecdote.

"goo"? - And I thought it derives from goof; goof-famous, short: goofamous.
Which would be a quite appropriate term in the context of Nethack.

Janis

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lmfback wrote:
> You Know You Have Been Playing Too Much Nethack when during a
> discussion with a friend about computer acronyms she challenges you if
> you know more than she does. Sure enough, I pop out YKYHBPTMNH, she
> goes uhumph, googles for it and yes, the very first entry shows a rgrn
> thread with me at top ;-).
>
> I then promptly announce I'm goofamous. Which after realizing what a
> wonderful word it is, I promptly googled for and didn't find any hits.
> So at least I'm among the first (in the first million or so then?) to
> coin a new word. And since I couldn't care less about fame on google or
> the amount of goo found there I just had to come here and tell you this
> IMHO amusing anecdote.
>
> Eskimo
>
> P.S. Unfortunately even this post will add to the YKYHBPTMNH/eskimo
> rating and now it will add one instance of 'goofamous' too. Oh bugger.
>

So I just did a search for "goofamous" on Google, and guess what comes
up as the only hit? A porn site with the word as one of the huge bunch
used to harvest hits from Google. I wonder if it has a program that
takes random unique words from Usenet.

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> "goo"? - And I thought it derives from goof; goof-famous, short: goofamous.
> Which would be a quite appropriate term in the context of Nethack.
>
> Janis
>
no from google and googleplex = 10^100 & 10^(10^100) which as the story goes
a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to be
to which he responded: (like a kid) google.

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chuck wrote:
[deletia]
> google and googleplex = 10^100 & 10^(10^100) which as the story goes
> a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to be
> to which he responded: (like a kid) google.

Actually, it is Googol (10^1,000,000) and Googolplex (10^Googol).
-plex is a mathematical term for 10^<number>.
Google was, as a matter of fact, originally intended to be named
googol, but the domain google was registered because of a typo.

The current (and supposedly perpitually) largest number is Newton's
number, which is the highest know number times ten.

P.S: Just to be perfectly clear, this number was invented a long time
before Google, so therefore the child (if that story is true, which I
don't know) didn't get the inspiration from that.

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:28:22 GMT
chuck <chucko@nil.car> wrote:

>a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to be
>to which he responded: (like a kid) google.

Actually he said a googel. google the company was named after that.

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In article <HHIAe.8447$Eo.6596@fed1read04>, swervy.aTAKE@this-
out.gmail.com says...

> So I just did a search for "goofamous" on Google, and guess what comes
> up as the only hit? A porn site with the word as one of the huge bunch
> used to harvest hits from Google. I wonder if it has a program that
> takes random unique words from Usenet.

How interesting. I'm also curious why this happened.

Theory: Porn sites know rgrn are about the most educated group on the
net so they have their most advanced tools aimed at us and us alone.


Eskimo

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lmfback <peter.backgren@absolutelynos-p-a-m.ericsson.com> writes:

> Theory: Porn sites know rgrn are about the most educated group on the
> net so they have their most advanced tools aimed at us and us alone.

Pr0n targetted at nethack players... Beggars my imagination.

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In article <MPG.1d3d97e831047baf9899c1@news.lmf.ericsson.se>,
peter.backgren@absolutelynos-p-a-m.ericsson.com says...
> In article <HHIAe.8447$Eo.6596@fed1read04>, swervy.aTAKE@this-
> out.gmail.com says...
>
> > So I just did a search for "goofamous" on Google, and guess what comes
> > up as the only hit? A porn site with the word as one of the huge bunch
> > used to harvest hits from Google. I wonder if it has a program that
> > takes random unique words from Usenet.

Ok, I just had to dig a bit deeper. Seems it's our dear own Xanthian
that is the culprit :-). I'll never post on alt.bizarre again (not that
I never have).

http://groups-
beta.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/browse_thread/thread/d4b2fea053fe68e
e/4e5fe619df723a2e?q=goofamous&rnum=2&hl=en#4e5fe619df723a2e


Eskimo

P.S. Only (enlightened) nerds like us can thread around a topic like
this.


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In article <20050712064456.2c7c47b2@dhcppc4>,
noah bedford <noahbedford@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:28:22 GMT
>chuck <chucko@nil.car> wrote:
>
>>a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to be
>>to which he responded: (like a kid) google.
>
>Actually he said a googel. google the company was named after that.

_Actually_ he said a "googol", if you want to be pedantic about it (and
believe Wikipedia).

Phil

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Nick Vargish <nav+posts@bandersnatch.org> wrote:
>lmfback <peter.backgren@absolutelynos-p-a-m.ericsson.com> writes:
>> Theory: Porn sites know rgrn are about the most educated group on the
>> net so they have their most advanced tools aimed at us and us alone.
>
>Pr0n targetted at nethack players... Beggars my imagination.

Full of cute '&' and 'n' with minimal '[' on, of course.
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Mikoangelo babbled on for HOURS on 12 Jul 2005:

> chuck wrote:
> The current (and supposedly perpitually) largest number is Newton's
> number, which is the highest know number times ten.

I heard recently they calculated one higher...it comes out to be that
number plus 42.

Totally off topic...so:

How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?

Discuss.

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lmfback wrote:
> You Know You Have Been Playing Too Much Nethack when during a
> discussion with a friend about computer acronyms she challenges you if
> you know more than she does. Sure enough, I pop out YKYHBPTMNH, she
> goes uhumph, googles for it and yes, the very first entry shows a rgrn
> thread with me at top ;-).
>
> I then promptly announce I'm goofamous. Which after realizing what a
> wonderful word it is, I promptly googled for and didn't find any hits.
> So at least I'm among the first (in the first million or so then?) to
> coin a new word. And since I couldn't care less about fame on google or
> the amount of goo found there I just had to come here and tell you this
> IMHO amusing anecdote.

Since foo-proof means all types of immunity, foo-famous
must mean famous across several types of groups.

Is goo-famous similar to foo-famous except that it is
sweet and sticky and served for desserts at a restaurant
near you? ;^)

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thisismy@email.com wrote:
>
> How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?
> Discuss.

A LOT. Grid bugs only have shock attacks and both types
of light bulb are immune to shock attack.

On the other hand, how many light bulbs does it take to
change a grid bug? Same answer different reason.

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:12:12 -0500,
thisismy@email.com wrote:

> How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?

One.

> Discuss.

A wand or a potion of polymorph.

Regards,
Dan

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On 13 Jul 2005 09:13:27 -0700
"Doug Freyburger" <dfreybur@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Since foo-proof means all types of immunity, foo-famous
>must mean famous across several types of groups.
>
>Is goo-famous similar to foo-famous except that it is
>sweet and sticky and served for desserts at a restaurant
>near you? ;^)

Seems to me he meant something like goog-famous.

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thisismy@email.com wrote:
>
> How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?
>
> Discuss.

Impossible, I'd say. For any solution you need to draw a circle.

For some values of "light bulb"... If it would be an intelligent
creature, occasionally one would be enough; if he zaps a wand of
create monster and creates a yellow light in the process.

Janis

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noah bedford <noahbedford@gmail.com> wrote in
news:20050712064456.2c7c47b2@dhcppc4:

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:28:22 GMT
> chuck <chucko@nil.car> wrote:
>
>>a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to be
>>to which he responded: (like a kid) google.
>
> Actually he said a googel. google the company was named after that.
>

no one knows 1) he was a kid and SAID it 2) his father either spelled it
right or wrong and THAT no one knows.

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pak21@cam.ac.uk (Philip Kendall) wrote in
news b07bm$9ra$1@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk:

> In article <20050712064456.2c7c47b2@dhcppc4>,
> noah bedford <noahbedford@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:28:22 GMT
>>chuck <chucko@nil.car> wrote:
>>
>>>a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to
be
>>>to which he responded: (like a kid) google.
>>
>>Actually he said a googel. google the company was named after that.
>
> _Actually_ he said a "googol", if you want to be pedantic about it (and
> believe Wikipedia).
>
> Phil
>

no one knows 1) he was a kid and SAID it 2) his father either spelled it
right or wrong and THAT no one knows.

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"Mikoangelo" <mikoangelo@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1121165587.011237.282080@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> chuck wrote:
> [deletia]
>> google and googleplex = 10^100 & 10^(10^100) which as the story goes
>> a mathematician asked his young kid what he wanted the largest number to
be
>> to which he responded: (like a kid) google.
>
> Actually, it is Googol (10^1,000,000) and Googolplex (10^Googol).
> -plex is a mathematical term for 10^<number>.
> Google was, as a matter of fact, originally intended to be named
> googol, but the domain google was registered because of a typo.

I don't know where you got those numbers, but they aren't anywhere near
right. The spelling is expalined in other posts and the name brand is the
best guess (plus I HAVE seen it in print before the company existed.)

> The current (and supposedly perpitually) largest number is Newton's
> number, which is the highest know number times ten.

no, one could argue aleph-0 sub aleph-0 (last of the transfinites) to be
pedantic.

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thisismy@email.com wrote in news:Xns969223E9C6Bzab@216.196.97.142:

> Mikoangelo babbled on for HOURS on 12 Jul 2005:
>
>> chuck wrote:
>> The current (and supposedly perpitually) largest number is Newton's
>> number, which is the highest know number times ten.
>
> I heard recently they calculated one higher...it comes out to be that
> number plus 42.
>
> Totally off topic...so:
>
> How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?
>
> Discuss.
>

not from the message responded to and then only an interjection that seemed
to be the most viable part of the thread...

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"Doug Freyburger" <dfreybur@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1121271446.918125.264970@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> thisismy@email.com wrote:
>>
>> How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?
>> Discuss.
>
> A LOT. Grid bugs only have shock attacks and both types
> of light bulb are immune to shock attack.
>
> On the other hand, how many light bulbs does it take to
> change a grid bug? Same answer different reason.
>

One. but it has to be a magic lamp and the grid bug has to WANT to change...

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:12:12 -0500, thisismy@email.com Gave us:

>Mikoangelo babbled on for HOURS on 12 Jul 2005:
>
>> chuck wrote:
>> The current (and supposedly perpitually) largest number is Newton's
>> number, which is the highest know number times ten.
>
>I heard recently they calculated one higher...it comes out to be that
>number plus 42.
>
>Totally off topic...so:
>
>How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?
>
>Discuss.


It'll be a high number since they are all stuck to the floor! :-]

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"Doug Freyburger" <dfreybur@yahoo.com> writes:
> thisismy@email.com wrote:

> > How many grid bugs does it take to change a light bulb?
> > Discuss.

> A LOT. Grid bugs only have shock attacks and both types
> of light bulb are immune to shock attack.

But OTOH, only five grid bugs can be placed so that they can operate the
light bulb: one in the same square and four others to the main directions
around it. So it can't be more than five.

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noah bedford wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
> >Since foo-proof means all types of immunity, foo-famous
> >must mean famous across several types of groups.
>
> >Is goo-famous similar to foo-famous except that it is
> >sweet and sticky and served for desserts at a restaurant
> >near you? ;^)
>
> Seems to me he meant something like goog-famous.

Maybe the syllables are cut goof-amous. A clown
(Nethack Kop) who bakes cookies (Nethack cream pies).

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chuck <chucko@nil.car> wrote:

> pak21@cam.ac.uk (Philip Kendall) wrote in
> news b07bm$9ra$1@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk:
>
> > _Actually_ he said a "googol", if you want to be pedantic about it (and
> > believe Wikipedia).
>
> no one knows 1) he was a kid and SAID it 2) his father either spelled it
> right or wrong and THAT no one knows.

Children these days... think they know everything.

If you'd been born before Google was founded, you'd have known that the
number was rarely if ever spelled any other way than "googol" until the
web search guys came along.

Richard

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Richard Bos wrote:
> chuck <chucko@nil.car> wrote:
>>pak21@cam.ac.uk (Philip Kendall) wrote in
>>news b07bm$9ra$1@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk:
>>
>>>_Actually_ he said a "googol", if you want to be pedantic about it (and
>>>believe Wikipedia).
>>
>>no one knows 1) he was a kid and SAID it 2) his father either spelled it
>>right or wrong and THAT no one knows.
>
> Children these days... think they know everything.
>
> If you'd been born before Google was founded, you'd have known that the
> number was rarely if ever spelled any other way than "googol" until the
> web search guys came along.

Though in some places in the world it was (still is?) spelled "Gogol".
(And that's the orthography for that number that I learned 30+ years ago.)

Janis

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On that special day, Janis Papanagnou, (Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com)
said...

> Though in some places in the world it was (still is?) spelled "Gogol".
> (And that's the orthography for that number that I learned 30+ years ago.)

Nikolai Gogol was a Russian (or rather Ukraininan) author.


Gabriele Neukam

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Gabriele Neukam wrote:
> On that special day, Janis Papanagnou, (Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com)
> said...
>
>>Though in some places in the world it was (still is?) spelled "Gogol".
>>(And that's the orthography for that number that I learned 30+ years ago.)
>
> Nikolai Gogol was a Russian (or rather Ukraininan) author.

Sure, but off-topic, we were talking about the number 10^100.

If you try to find Gogol with the meaning of Googol (using Google) you
will apparently find mainly Nikolai Gogol who is worldwide know better,
and of more relevance, than the Googol/Gogol number.

I had found at least one hit for that term in the french domain. Though,
what I mentioned above, I learned about the number "Gogol" myself from
some german source (a book).

Janis

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Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> Sure, but off-topic, we were talking about the number 10^100.

> If you try to find Gogol with the meaning of Googol (using Google) you
> will apparently find mainly Nikolai Gogol who is worldwide know
> better, and of more relevance, than the Googol/Gogol number.

Google searches for "googol", "google" and "googel" are unreliable,
since they more often than not refer to the website, not the number.

I first learned of this word through the word "googolplex" which is a 1
followed by 10 to the power of 100 zeroes. A googol is a 1 followed by
100 zeroes.

A google search for "googolplex" gives about 61800 hits.
A google search for "googelplex" gives about 119 hits.
A google search for "googleplex" gives about 49900 hits.

The main part of the "googleplex" hits aren't about a large number,
though, while almost all "googolplex" hits are about large numbers.

This leads me to the conclusion that the "googolplex" spelling would be
the correct one. That obviously suggests that "googol" would be the
correct spelling for the lesser number.

Boudewijn.

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> This leads me to the conclusion that the "googolplex" spelling would be
> the correct one. That obviously suggests that "googol" would be the
> correct spelling for the lesser number.
>
> Boudewijn.
>

Yeah, I checked on wikipeadia (sp?) and it sure seems so. sorry.

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Martin Read wrote:
> Nick Vargish wrote:
> >lmfback writes:
>
> >> Theory: Porn sites know rgrn are about the most educated group on the
> >> net so they have their most advanced tools aimed at us and us alone.
>
> >Pr0n targetted at nethack players... Beggars my imagination.
>
> Full of cute '&' and 'n' with minimal '[' on, of course.

Originally addressed in 2003 on RGRN I think. Minimal apparently
does not mean zero:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid=43371...