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This is a question How nerdy are you?

This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.

So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?

As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.

Revel in your own nerdiness.

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Avrogadro's number
6x1023 it's the number of atoms, molecules, etc. in a gram mole of any chemical substance

is a Big Number it's very hard to get your head around a number that large

6x1023 coke cans would cover earth about 4 million times at depth of 280 miles

I love that
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:12, 6 replies)
I like how
you can multiply Avogadro's number by the square of the Bohr magneton and then divide by the Boltzmann constant to give a value as close as damn it to 1/8th.
Makes my life easier, anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:14, closed)
It may be a big number
But how big is it compared to Wales? That's the only comparison that matters.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:22, closed)
well enzyme
6x1023 coke cans would cover wales to the depth of 280,000,000 miles *




* lies
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:26, closed)
I read the sun
How long would it take the UK to drink that many pints of beer?
(I helped save b3ta! KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:28, closed)
KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO
Taking into effect the weather, possibility of sporting success for national teams divide by smoking ban and interest rates

about 3 days
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:39, closed)
It wouldn't be quite 280 miles above the current surface
because the earth's surface would have sunk a bit because of all of the bits of earth's crust you'd need to mine to get enough aluminium to manufacture the coke cans.

Maybe.

Also, colonelboris,

eiπ = -1

Nothing to do with Avogadro, but rather a fun equation, I think.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:30, closed)

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