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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: TopAce on May 08, 2004, 07:28:45 am
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Here is something that may be interesting:
The first thread was established on 28-1-2001. This is to be considered as the start of HLP history. Since then, on 8th May 2004, 2 PM(GMT +1 Hr) :
1,800 members have registered
22,104 threads have been established.
452,453 posts have been posted
Knowing these variables, we can calculate the age of HLP considering the following facotrs:
A year normally consists of 365 days. Exception is 2004, it is a leap-year. As already told, the first post was made on 1-28-2001, it is 08-05-2004:
HLP has been active since 1224 days, 40.644 Months, and 3.275 years.
Knowing the number of days HLP has been active, the following averages can be calculated:
1.47 Members register a day
13.05 threads are established a day
369.6(!) posts are posted a day
And how I calculated the age of HLP in months?
With this method:
28th Jabuary is 3 days away from the end of the month. HLP was 0.096 months old when 2001 February began. [3(Days HLP has been alive): 31(Number of days in January) = 0.096]
Since then, HLP lived 39 complete months. 8 days in May, 2004 means that we have to add an additional of 0.161. This means that HLP has been alive for: 0.096 + 39 + 0.161 = 40.644.
The method is something similiar in the case of years:
28 days elapsed in 2004 when HLP was established, this 0.076. HLP did not exist in this part of the year, so if we calculate: 1- 0.076, we get 0.932. So HLP was 0.932 years old at 01-01-2002. Since then, 2 complete years(2002, 2003) elapsed + the 129 days in 2004(calculating 2004 as leap-year). If we divide 129 by 366, we get 0.35. So HLP is 0.932 + 2 + 0.35 = 3.275 years old
Phew! It took me a while to type this. I hope I did not miss to explain anything, and I was understandable.
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boring. What would be much more fun is to calculate predictions with these figures. :D
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Originally posted by TopAce
Phew! It took me a while to type this.
And we're all very proud of you. :blah:
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*nods and smiles*
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
And we're all very proud of you. :blah:
Why are people so hostile nowadays?
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Perhaps somethings is lost in the translation
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Typical American attitude. :nervous:
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TopAce, shut up with the Americanisms. First off, they're (DG and LS) British. And second off, it just makes you sound like a bigotted idiot.
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(http://www.3dflags.com/assets/XV21AE/gif/2/u/3dflagsdotcom_uk_2fawm.gif)
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I knew that DG and LS are British. My post was not aimed at them.
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Was it at me, as if it was you'll look even more of a fool.
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:wtf: @ TA
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Petrarch? Unless his "location" info is correct..:rolleyes:
Now I know how Nico felt. Meh.
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And we're all very proud of you. :blah:
That :blah: smiley shows everything.
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Petrarch? Unless his "location" info is correct..:rolleyes:
pssst, Engerland.
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Requesting Thread Lockage.
Don't take things so seriously, TA. Especially not in this community.
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Engerland? Where? *runs*
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He showed his lack of sympathy for my work with that smiley. I have reason to take it seriously.
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Oh I have sympathy, don't worry about that.
Well, it's more pity than sympathy, to be honest.
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What is the purpose of that smiley is supposed to be for you?
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We're just joshing with you, Top. We know you must have worked very hard to make all that... stuff. You did really well :):yes:
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The first good post here.
Thanks, DG. You boosted by confidence. :)
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:nod: :nervous:
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It's quite impressive and all that, but why?
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Oh dear...
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BECAUSE HE CAN!!!11!1!
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Oh dear...
:nervous:
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The calculations? I was boring, and this came to my mind. It didn't take much time to calculate this, so I think I would better play some puzzle next time I will be boring.
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
BECAUSE HE CAN!!!11!1!
By that token, someone could post the entire first chapter of David Copperfield again. :D
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....and then Mr T said 'Ah piddy da foo'. Admiral Bosch said...
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Heeh!
Better would be some obscure USSR Propaganda, from the good ol' days. :nod:
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
We're just joshing with you, Top. We know you must have worked very hard to make all that... stuff. You did really well :):yes:
grr. damn that deaf (or was it mute) guy named josh who passed out gold plated nickles for $5 coins. :mad:
/me thinks how he could do this with PHP....hmm.........
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wow, you people must really hate math!
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*snickers @ Petrarch's siggy*
I was waiting for that.
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Turumby, Maths has nichts to do with this. :p
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Well somebody had to. :P
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
*snickers @ Petrarch's siggy*
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That's not good. :ick:
I bored and I posted. :)
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You were bored. You need a past tense form of 'to be' in that statement. :nod:
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You also posted then bored
Don't hit on the dude for grammar, Raa, that's cheap
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That should be another siggy quote.
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
You also posted then bored
Don't hit on the dude for grammar, Raa, that's cheap
I'm not. I was correcting it. But it does sound as if I was, huh? *edits*
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
(http://www.3dflags.com/assets/XV21AE/gif/2/u/3dflagsdotcom_uk_2fawm.gif)
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves... :)
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Britons never never never shall be gays :)
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
I'm not. I was correcting it. But it does sound as if I was, huh? *edits*
That *snickers*. :)
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
But it does sound as if I was, huh?
So, it 'does' sound as if you 'were'? :p
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This is an instructive thread for me.
I made a search and I noticed I had not missed the difference between 'to be bored' and 'to be boring' before. This blunder might have been because I was fired up.
It is not a good caveat, isn't it? :D
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So, to get the thread back on-topic (wow, I'm actually saying this?), we get only a 369 posts avverage? The first year or so had to be really low-traffic.
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This is, for the most part, hilarious. :D
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I've come to this late, I see. I'm trying to figure out how a bunch of Englishmen not reacting favorably to something is somehow "Typical American attitude".
Further, I'm trying to figure out how that little bland smiley got construed as something hostile.
Finally, I'm trying to figure out why it is that all the responses are considered hostile and bad (even though they are rather neutral) and only the one favorable response is somehow a good and useful response?
There's something to be learned in this thread, but it has nothing to do with statistics.
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Yes, and it's that the 'good and favourable' comment I posted was in fact an experiment to see if TopAce could spot a piss take
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interesting stats; however:
(http://www.penguinbomb.com/phreak/derail.jpg)
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Should've asked CP. ;)
Edit: Are trolls counted in that? (Hence the 1.47 a day... :D)
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hay guyz whats going on here
[Accoring to calculations, we're desperatly in need of new users.]
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This thread was fun. We need more.
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I agree. We haven't had this much fun since the days of Razor.
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Razor, the one man unintentional humour factory.