I was invited to see a guest lecturer at university
but when he started his lecture by telling us that there 650,000 different species of insect known in the world, I did not make an aside rather more loudly than I intended saying "Well, that's wrong for a start."

If I had, and the poor chap had heard it, he might have flinched violently and give a hunted look to the room, and then begun to blush and stammer and whisk through his slides at some speed, at one point losing track completely to a room full of increasingly unimpressed undergraduates.

And then I might have felt bad about it for years afterwards.

But I didn't. So that's a relief.
(richardm, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 16:57, 4 replies)

So how many are there?
o king of the insects
(Kazza , loathing myself so you don't have to, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 23:32, closed)

About 1,000,000
Apparently
( MatJ LOOK, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 1:18, closed)

that must have been really handy for the scientist
because it would be really annoying if it was a number like 1,314,765 becuase that looks rubbish.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 13:19, closed)

Pi to 3 decimal places
then 765? Not too hard to remember, but it would change a lot.
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 20:09, closed)