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Monument ([personal profile] marnanel) wrote2014-06-26 03:54 pm

Today in a newsagent's

Newsagent: That'll be £2.55, please.
Marn: Oh! Shame it's not £2.56.
Newsagent: Why?
Marn: Well, it's a square of squares. Four squared is sixteen, sixteen squared is 256. It's a very pleasing number.
Newsagent (obligingly): Well, you can pay £2.56 if you LIKE.
Marn: All right, then.
Newsagent: Well then, that'll be £2.56, please.
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[personal profile] simont 2014-06-26 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
When I was little I remember thinking 255 rather than 256 was the really important one of the two numbers for a long time – because it was the one that actually came up all the time in my experience, being the maximum x-coordinate on the Spectrum screen :-)
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[personal profile] redbird 2014-06-26 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That was good of them.