LJ Lunch at Thai Garden

[csberry]

I had a good lunch with chris21718 at Thai Garden. We usually get together every 2 or 3 months for lunch, but JD and I have been working really hard on our fiscal discipline this year and I kept procrastinating contacting him about lunch. Thankfully, he asked me out to lunch last week and I took that as my justification to set aside $10.

After being excited this weekend about getting together, I was disappointed with myself during lunch. I just couldn't get my conversational juices going. My mind would come up blank when I would go to it for the next topic. I will admit that I felt particularly guilty about my poor conversation skills when Chris twice declined getting his tea refilled as we chatted after eating. It is silly I know, but I feel bad that I wasn't doing a good enough job holding up my half of the conversation to make him want to sit back and drink some more. :/

Anyways, I did leave Chris and Thai Garden happy. As we were getting ready to leave, I decided to share the brain teaser from the Car Talk that aired a couple of weeks ago. It had to do with a number, so I was certain that Chris would either already know it or would entertain himself while trying to figure out the unique attribute of the number 8,549,176,320 (try to figure it out without Googling the number, no calculator needed either). As we parted in the parking lot, he had yet to figure it out.

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[chris21718.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel I was doing that great with conversation either. It was mostly my fault because I woke up at 4:30 this morning worrying about things and this morning in the office, my eyes felt tired and wanted to close. I'm feeling better this afternoon.

I've looked at the number 8,549,176,320 and have played with it. I decided not to Google it or anything. Observations:

It is a 10-digit number and contains all 10 digits.

It is divisible by 2 10 times and 3 3 times, as well as by 5 once and 61843. It's a highly composite number.

It is suspiciously close to 2 to the 33rd power.

It is suspiciously close to a trillion divided by (9 times 13).

It is suspiciously close to 60 billion divided by 7.

[chris21718.livejournal.com]

I got it. I wrote the names of the digits out and didn't notice this earlier, but they're in alphabetical order. I tried looking at the initials of the words instead of the whole words.