As of 1700Z today, 23 December 1942, what do these numbers represent -   948;  4,122;  28,855;  692,502;  41,550,165;  and 2,493,009,311 ?

2 hours ago, W2DR said:

2,493,009,311

I thought this must be the cost of World War 2 but I find that was much higher, at $4.1 trillion.

I'm sorry, I was thinking of 1945. When I see these huge dollar amounts, I become confused and disoriented.

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by dmwalker

That date was 948 weeks ago.  And multiplying that by 7 days in a week is 6,636 days and by 24 hours in a day is 159,264 hours ago. Which means that I have no clue 😞

10 hours ago, W2DR said:

As of 1700Z today, 23 December 1942, what do these numbers represent -   948;  4,122;  28,855;  692,502;  41,550,165;  and 2,493,009,311 ?

We give up, what is it? Something to with with months, days, hours, minutes and seconds since then?

In 1942 there were only 948 cat videos on Youtube?

 

Easy one !

The number of uninstalls in successive years since I started using a  mix of combat and civil sims...

First off , I marvel at you traveling back to 1942 , make sure you buy stock in MS ; they will have some great FS in the future . 

Something to do with numbers of people killed, ships/aircraft lost etc?

I do have some MS stock. But not because of FS though. I was lucky enough to get a few shares back in the 1986 IPO. And I still own them. There are a few more shares now due to the stock splits - I think were nine.  It's been a good ride.

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

In 1942 there were only 948 cat videos on Youtube?

 

 

Negative! In a parallel universe our beloved feline gods and goddesses, being very pleased with the progress of their subjects, granted time travel. And thus, it is written, that loyal worshipers of feline greatness, travelled forward in time and took the concept of YouTube, and the technology that allowed it to be manifest, back to their time. Thus, millions of cat videos came into exitance to celebrate all that was catlike. 

 

Abbey and Lucky agree,....

Its is written in the ancient texts. Our feline guardians that are guiding us to a better existence have done this many times in many universes.

In some universe's our feline masters are bigger.

 

 

17 hours ago, W2DR said:

As of 1700Z today, 23 December 1942, what do these numbers represent -   948;  4,122;  28,855;  692,502;  41,550,165;  and 2,493,009,311 ?

Alright, the last five numbers are even multiples of each other: x 7 x 24 x 60 x 60

So that's days, hours, minutes, seconds.

The last five numbers are therefore the number of "somethings" per second, minute, hour, day week. 

I'm going to say total miles flown by military aircraft during the war at this time? 

Or maybe rounds of ammunition fired?

Can't figure out the first number - it's not an even multiple of the others. Total military flights per... day?

Thanks for the puzzle!

John

6 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

We give up, what is it? Something to with with months, days, hours, minutes and seconds since then?

Oh crud - that's it. 79 years x 12 months = 948 months.

The reason that's not an even multiple of the others is there aren't an even number of weeks in a month. Argh.

So it's the total number of months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds since December 23rd 1942. 

DUH! 

I guess the title of the thread threw me off: "hard to believe" - thought it was some interesting WWII fact. 

Not very hard to believe that that much time has passed - that's how time works!

Edited December 24, 20214 yr by enright

19 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Its is written in the ancient texts. Our feline guardians that are guiding us to a better existence have done this many times in many universes.

In some universe's our feline masters are bigger.

 

 

On our first trip to Egypt we learned about Bastet. But it goes much further than that: