4, 8, 42 at the Airport?


On the wall of the airport, are those numbers 4, 8, 42 (as read from bottom to top) or 9, 8, 42? I cannot quite tell. If 4, 8, 42 as it looks at first glance then those are half of Hurley's number sequence: 4 8 15 16 23 42, the core values of the Valenzetti Equation. What are the odds of this happening as a coincidence by random chance, I wonder?
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Sun, June 15, 2008 - 8:45 PM
that might be reaching a bit
you are also leaVing out the other numbers in the panel
the clock says 11:15 and 35 seconds
(only one lost number there)
the date in the top left is march 31st or 3/31
no valenzetti there
Mon, June 16, 2008 - 5:29 PM
Yes, I wish now I been paying better attention instead of daydreaming when probability was taught in math class. If I ever find time to go back and review probability theory it will be interesting to see if any of these various probabilistic juxtapositions have any more statistical significance than random chance would predict. BTW, a friend recommended an excellent book on this whole larger general topic- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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