[KLUG Members] Only 97 Days Until Geek Jeopardy
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Jul 20 19:19:35 EDT 2005
There here! The 2005 Geek Jeopardy categories...
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3?schedule=Schedule
+Page#M2005-10-25
Please be gentle, lets not 'slashdot' our own web server. :)
> This years Geek Jeopardy event will be held on October 25th. That is
> just 97 days away!
>
> And did you know that 97 is the largest two-digit prime number? And
> that there are 97 leap days every 400 years? And that the number
> formed by the concatenation of the digits of all the odd numbers from 1
> to 97 is also prime?
>
> AND that Shakespeare's 97th sonnet has a curious property. First, of
> course, 97 is prime. Next, the 7th word of the 7th line of the sonnet is
> "prime." Finally, if the entire sonnet is summed up using the alphabet
> code (A=1, B=2, etc.), its value (5501) is also prime.
>
> Who knew 97 was such a 31337 kind of number?
>
> To find out more exciting details concerning the number 97 see -
> http://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php/97.html
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