what's the significance of '7'?

[maomao]

maomao you're the one who wants to tell everyone about your wanking
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3648560&postcount=22

Just one of my many areas of expertise.

 

[TeeJay]

Two fucking losers who have nothing to say about the topic and are just sitting here giggling about saying "wank".

Utterly not worth talking to.

 

[flimsier]

Two fucking losers who have nothing to say about the topic and are just sitting here giggling about saying "wank".

Utterly not worth talking to.

I agree. Back to the baseball thread with me.

What the fuck are you here for? Maomao's working. I'm watching my second favourite sport in the most important game of the season. You are....





oh, I see.

 

[maomao]

It was Bristle's fault. He started it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

only poor student blames sensei for his own mistakes

 

[888]

can you three shut the fuck up?

edit: I mean f, tj, mm

 

[DaveCinzano]

can you three shut the fuck up?

if only there were 4 more

 

[flimsier]

can you three shut the fuck up?

edit: I mean f, tj, mm

Why? You got something to add?

Or are we waking you?







Teej: that's waking, not your fave subject!

 

[maomao]

can you three shut the fuck up?

edit: I mean f, tj, mm

Pardon me for asking but what skin of your nose is it? Is your alarm clock wired to the urban new posts page or something?

 

[888]

I was expecting enlightened discussion on the number seven but all i got was your tedium... +3

 

[Epona]

I thought I was coming into the Maths class, I appear to have taken a wrong turn and ended up in the infant school playground....

The number 7 is considered lucky when playing cards - the method of shuffling decks of cards that they use in casinos (where cards are slipped between each other, don't know the correct term for it) - the packs must be shuffled like that 7 times to achieve maximum randomness of card distribution within the pack. Or something like that!

 

[MarkMark]

seven is the most argumentative number in the dictionary.

 

[MikeMcc]

Isn't all of this 'significance of numbers' shit supposed to be on the philosophy forum?

 

[DaveCinzano]

the packs must be shuffled like that 7 times to achieve maximum randomness of card distribution within the pack. Or something like that!

wouldn't that mean that there is a definite level of predictibility to the shuffle then?

 

[kakuma]

in psychology they told me you can only store 7 different things in your short term memory which i reckon is connected

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It's as far as George W can count on his fingers.

 

[fractionMan]

It's the length of gods cock in inches.

 

[miss giggles]

I was born on the 7th

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Great radio programme all about the number 7...There were two series....worth listening to the whole lot

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/another52.shtml

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Actually there were three series...links to them on the r/h side of the webpage I posted the link to above.

 

[MysteryGuest]

I think 7 is the highest number of discrete objects people can see all at once without having to count out one by one, unless they're autistic/a savant. Well that's what it says in 'The Mathematical Brain' by Brian Butterworth anyway.

 

[Wibbly Dwain]

venetian snares found it

 

[Dandred]

In Korean the days of the week are related to general stuff around us.

Sunday - 일요일 (Chinese for 일 = 日 - Sun)
Monday - 월요일 (月 - Moon)
Tuesday - 화요일 (火 - Fire)
Wednesday - 수요일 (水 - Water)
Thursday - 목요일 (木 - Wood)
Friday - 금요일 (金 - Gold)
Saturday - 토요일 (土 - Earth (soil))

They are derived from Chinese characters.