The significance of 108

[DRSB]

Tell me, rational people, what do you think of that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g74sH56 ... re=related

[JOZeldenrust]

Who cares...

[Randydeluxe]

Coincidence is a hell of a drug.

[RandomGuyOnCouch]

It's simple, really. 1 + 0 + 8 = 18. 18/(the number of digits in "108") = 6. Turned upside down, this looks like 9. 9 - (the number of sentences preceding this in this paragraph) = 5.

Thus proving that the Law of Fives, and Discordianism by extension, must be accurate.

[Trolldor]

It's simple, really. 1 + 0 + 8 = 18. 18/(the number of digits in "108") = 6. Turned upside down, this looks like 9. 9 - (the number of sentences preceding this in this paragraph) = 5.

Thus proving that the Law of Fives, and Discordianism by extension, must be accurate.

Alternatively, it refers to the 108 shots of Whiskey you probably shouldn't have taken.

[RandomGuyOnCouch]

It's simple, really. 1 + 0 + 8 = 18. 18/(the number of digits in "108") = 6. Turned upside down, this looks like 9. 9 - (the number of sentences preceding this in this paragraph) = 5.

Thus proving that the Law of Fives, and Discordianism by extension, must be accurate.

Alternatively, it refers to the 108 shots of Whiskey you probably shouldn't have taken.

Can you please qualify "shouldn't have"? I am unfamiliar with this phrase when in the context of imbibing whiskey.

[Robert_S]

It's simple, really. 1 + 0 + 8 = 18. 18/(the number of digits in "108") = 6. Turned upside down, this looks like 9. 9 - (the number of sentences preceding this in this paragraph) = 5.

Thus proving that the Law of Fives, and Discordianism by extension, must be accurate.

Alternatively, it refers to the 108 shots of Whiskey you probably shouldn't have taken.

Can you please qualify "shouldn't have"? I am unfamiliar with this phrase when in the context of imbibing whiskey.

"Shouldn't have" is when you are called upon to explain what you cannot remember to a person who is precisely as sober as a judge.

[Trolldor]

"Shouldn't have" refers specifically to any amount imbibed after the point of tolerance ie that is rejected by the body.
A terrible waste of a drink if all you're going to do is throw it up... unless you plan to recycle.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

108 is a factor-rich number. 108 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3. It is divisible by 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 27, 36 & 54. Any number that has a similar number of factors tends to be very useful as a standard measure (eg. 24, 60, 360, etc.) and such numbers turn up in tallying, time-division, distance-measurement and currency uses in many cultures.

There is a sound mathematical reason for its ubiquitousness - all else is woo.

[Trolldor]

Somebody ought to go and pick out all the "numbers" that have "significance" in the universe.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Somebody ought to go and pick out all the "numbers" that have "significance" in the universe.

...and then count how many of them there are - that number would be really significant!1!!

[RandomGuyOnCouch]

"Shouldn't have" refers specifically to any amount imbibed after the point of tolerance ie that is rejected by the body.
A terrible waste of a drink if all you're going to do is throw it up... unless you plan to recycle.

I'm not so sure such a limit exists. Honestly, who throws up from drinking anymore?

Somebody ought to go and pick out all the "numbers" that have "significance" in the universe.

And then put them all in a big burlap sack and stash them in the subjectivity closet.

[Trolldor]

subjectivity closet.

[DRSB]

19 has a special significance as well, apparently:

The number of Arabic letters in the opening statement of the Quran, BiSMi ALLaĤi AL-RaĤMaNi AL-RaĤYM (1:1) 19
Every word in Bismillah… is found in the Quran in multiples of 19
The frequency of the first word, Name (Ism) 19
The frequency of the second word, God (Allah) 19 x 142
The frequency of the third word, Gracious (Raĥman) 19 x 3
The fourth word, Compassionate (Raĥym) 19 x 6
Out of more than hundred attributes of God, only four has numerical values of multiple of 19
The number of chapters in the Quran 19 x 6
Despite its conspicuous absence from Chapter 9, Bismillah occurs twice in Chapter 27, making its frequency in the Quran 19 x 6
Number of chapters from the missing Ch. 9 to the extra in Ch. 27. 19 x 1
The total number of all verses in the Quran, including the 112 unnumbered Bismillah 19 x 334
Frequency of the letter Q in two chapters it initializes 19 x 6
The number of all different numbers mentioned in the Quran 19 x 2
The number of all numbers repeated in the Quran 19 x 16
The sum of all whole numbers mentioned in the Quran 19 x 8534

Other numbers are especially significant as well:

99: names of Allah; atomic number for Einsteinium; Agent 99 on TV series Get Smart
40: 40 days and 40 nights of rain; Hebrews lived 40 years in the desert, Muhammad’s age when he received the first revelation from the Archangel Gabriel and the number of days he spent in the desert and days he spent fasting in a cave
23: The 23 enigma: the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23
11: sunspot cycle in years, the number of Jesus’s disciples after Judas defected
7: 7 deadly sins and 7 heavenly virtues; Shakespeare’s 7 ages of man, Harry Potter’s most magical number
3: number of dimensions; number of sides of a triangle, the 3 of clubs—the forced pick in one of Penn & Teller’s favorite card tricks
1: unity; the first non-zero natural number, it’s own factorial and it’s own square; the atomic number of hydrogen; the most abundant element in the universe; Three Dog Night’s song about the loneliest number
π (pi): a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or 3.14159…. Make of this what you will, but Carl Sagan did elevate π to significance at the end of Contact:

More here: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-06-29/

[klr]

108? Any excuse, and all that ...