|
|
Post by grant on Feb 21, 2008 19:46:04 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 21, 2008 20:05:44 GMT
Holy cow! My last submission in this thread went through at 7:27 !! Another top-flight post, I guess!
|
|
|
|
Post by grant on Feb 21, 2008 20:09:12 GMT
Holy cow! My last submission in this thread went through at 7:27 !! Another top-flight post, I guess! Wish I'd spotted that!!  Best wishes Grant |
|
|
|
Post by stevemacdonald on Jul 14, 2008 15:05:08 GMT
I just had to steal this quote from the Hayley in Wash DC thread: ...Just to give some numbers, at one time Charlotte Church was between number 1 and 2 for two weeks with Enchantment - which hit Billboard at number 15. What's "fun with numbers" about Enchantment is that Charlotte was 15 years old when it came out, it contained 15 songs, it made its chart debut at #15, and it so happens the name "Charlotte Church" has 15 letters! |
|
Dave
Administrator
HWI Admin
Posts: 7,699
|
Post by Dave on Jul 14, 2008 16:35:06 GMT
I just had to steal this quote from the Hayley in Wash DC thread: ...Just to give some numbers, at one time Charlotte Church was between number 1 and 2 for two weeks with Enchantment - which hit Billboard at number 15. What's "fun with numbers" about Enchantment is that Charlotte was 15 years old when it came out, it contained 15 songs, it made its chart debut at #15, and it so happens the name "Charlotte Church" has 15 letters! Hi Steve, but you missed one! Enchantment was in the top 136 of the Billboard 200 for exactly 15 weeks!!!  Err.... does that count?   Cheers, Dave  |
|
|
|
Post by stevemacdonald on Nov 25, 2008 9:52:45 GMT
Hayley will be performing at the London Palladium on Sunday, 15th February, which happens to be day 46 of the calendar. The atomic number for the element Palladium is 46. |
|
|
|
Post by roger on Nov 25, 2008 10:12:36 GMT
That is uncanny, Steve, and trust you to think of it!  Roger |
|
|
|
Post by stevemacdonald on Nov 28, 2008 4:12:39 GMT
That is uncanny, Steve, and trust you to think of it! Roger Heh, the connection between Hayley and the number 46 is ridiculously uncanny! I think my interest in this was launched when I noticed that her first Decca release -- the New Zealand edition of "Pure" had a running time of 46 minutes and 46 seconds. If you have this exact edition you will see this plainly when you set it into your CD player. That was odd enough, but since then there have been numerous instances of Hayley being uncannily associated with the number 46: - She appeared on NBC's "American Dreams" episode 46. - She was invited to appear on Fox's "The O.C." -- based in California's state legislative district 46. - She went on tour with "Il Divo", covering 46 cities. - There were precisely 46 photographs made available for [url=http://filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=110712&EventI=0&navtyp =CAL&ym=20054]Hayley's 18th birthday party[/url]. - Latitude 46 South passes through the south island of New Zealand, Hayley's birthplace! - The largest city on Latitude 46 north is Odessa, Ukraine; "Odessa" is derived from the exactly same Greek root as "Odyssey", Hayley's second album. - In 2005 her father was 46 and the combined ages of the three Westenra siblings was also 46. - Her US release of "Pure" occurred on 4/ 6 of 2004. This is just the short list, by the way! |
|
|
|
Post by graemek on Nov 28, 2008 9:44:02 GMT
Hi Steve, No wish to be unnecessarily cynical but your beloved #46 is a bit thin on the ground here. It only just makes South Island NZ & I doubt whether if you flew along it you'd find a living soul.  Graeme  |
|
Martin
Global Moderator
HWI Management Team
Posts: 3,339
|
Post by Martin on Nov 28, 2008 13:07:05 GMT
But also, how spooky is this: The number of scheduled concerts and appearances by Hayley this year in UK & Ireland is 46!  Martin |
|
|
|
Post by scoobedoo on Nov 28, 2008 19:39:01 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by martindn on Nov 28, 2008 22:08:55 GMT
Well, that number is 4 too many. We all know that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42!
Martin
|
|
|
|
Post by stevemacdonald on Nov 28, 2008 22:21:33 GMT
... It only just makes South Island NZ & I doubt whether if you flew along it you'd find a living soul... Actually 46 S latitude goes through the NZ town of Kuri Bush with a population of a few thousand. But that's also weird, because Hayley famously sang a song by another "K. Bush". |
|
|
|
Post by georgina on Dec 5, 2008 22:04:35 GMT
Can anyone come up with a rational explanation as to why the number 46 showed up so often around Hayley? Because you are looking for it. It's called "pattern matching". Hayley is not the only one associated with the number 46. It is often pointed out that in 1611 the King James Version of the Bible was finished, the year shakespeare turned 46. Now 46 words from the beginning of Psalm 46 we find the word "shake" and 46 words from the end, he word "spear". Or something like that. You could take most other numbers and "prove" Hayley was associated with them to if you had the time. |
|
|
|
Post by georgina on Dec 5, 2008 22:28:21 GMT
May I project this into a slightly more serious mode? Chance is supposed to be statistically calculable. Is there therefore such a thing as 'chance' (i.e. total random opportunity) or are all things calculable and 'chance' per se does not actually exist? Peter S. I'm sorry, but I think you must be misunderstanding something. "Chance" in the everyday use of the word is by definition unpredictable. In the mathematical sense chance is the probability of an event occuring. Toss a coin and we can determine that there is a 50% chance of either a head or a tail. So we have put a statistical probability on a chance event. We can also say that out of a large number of tosses the percentage of heads to tails will gradually approach 50/50 and after a googolplex number of tosses it will be very close and some say that after an infinite number of tosses it will be exactly 50/50. The answer to the last claim is "What about infinity + one tosses? But we can never predict in advance with any certainty how any specified toss will turn out. Chance exits. The only safe way to make money out of a casion is to own it or at least have shares in it. Georgina NZCS (New Zealand Certificate in Statistics)  |
|
