Re: trivia

["Peter G. Mohn" <pmohn@foxinternet.net>]

Dear LM_Net,

WGN radio says this is the answer:


                    Links and Information - 4,561,920

                    Last week we read an email from a listener. Her boss
had promised a steak dinner to the first person who
                    could find the significance of 4561920.

                    Well, we've learned a lot of things since then.
Foremost is that - evidently - any randomly selected
                    number is filled with interesting if obtuse meanings
and connections.

                    456-1920 is the phone number of a charity in New York
City.

                    It is the font size of the message the wicked witch
wrote across the sky to Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.

                    It is the patent number of some sort of chemical
compound filed by a man from, of all places, Minooka,
                    IL, the small farm town home of the High School I
attended.

                    One enterprising listener calculated that this is the
number of minutes from the beginning of computer
                    time (on his PC, maybe yours, too, this is Jan 1,
1980) to the exact moment of the first night game
                    played at Wrigley Field.

                    But none of those were the right answers.

                    We have since discovered that the correct answer is
the number of pixels in a mile.

                    Pixels, those tiny light units that comprise the
viewing area of your TV screen. Those dots of light. How
                    many in a mile? 4,561,920.

                    Sorry we asked?

                    I'm not. Let's just chalk it up to another interesting
adventure on the internet. We learned a lot and
                    didn't have to visit a porn site.

                    Sheri, the listener who asked us to help her resolve
this (We didn't - her boss finally gave the answer
                    away.) wrote, "...Our clients often want to put a lot
of stuff on one web page and we advise them not to
                    because users would have to 'scroll a mile." That's
how this started, and this is how it ends."

Peter G. Mohn, LMS
Snohomish Freshman Campus
Snohomish, WA
pmohn@foxinternet.net

P.S.  This number is also the map scale of the 1968 National Geographic
Society's map of  United States.



Theresa Collins wrote:

> The trivia question posed by my principal this week is:
>
> What's the significance of the number 4,561,920?
>
> Any ideas?  I stand to win $25.  I must turn in the correct answer by =
> Monday afternoon.
>
> Any help would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Theresa
> Media Specialist
> Goshen High School
> Goshen, Indiana 46526
> tcollins@goshenschools.org
>
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