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We got all friendly with Barsuk and they've hooked us up with some goodies to pass onto you lovely dear readers! What could it be, you ask? What amazing wonders could you possibly be getting? Things beyond your wildest dreams:

***The new Menomena Friend & Foe CD! (Which you can listen to all of here-- more songs at end of post.)

***Craig Thompson's Blankets, which is a stunning graphic novel and one of my favorite books on this green earth.

***Menomena's Wet & Rusting limited edition CD/EP

Stupendous! Craig Thompson and Menomena are buddies, as Craig did the album artwork for both of these CDs. Now I know you're wondering: how can you win these sparkling gems of aural and artistic integrity? Because of the nature of these terribly awesome prizes, I'm going to make the method of entry deadly difficult and fraught with challenges!

I'm thinking of a number between one and a bazillion! Closest number takes the cake. ;) (Clue: it's a decimal.)


Menomena - The Pelican

Menomena - Wet and Rusting



****** We have a winner ******
The answer, for the record, is 1,000,000.1. That makes Luke the winner. David Sharpe gets a runner-up cookie.

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Comments

139,427.22335!

Posted by: Joe at February 5, 2007 05:48 PM

Pi? *crosses fingers hopefully*

Posted by: Elise at February 5, 2007 06:03 PM

1.6180339887286213544884754088077263544333067520876613614438148644492410254487706634166256241531714101

Posted by: Nicole at February 5, 2007 06:04 PM

57.95

Posted by: angela at February 5, 2007 06:09 PM

Damn, I was going to go for 3.14159. My second guess is 89.4

Posted by: kindle at February 5, 2007 08:28 PM

100 000.

Posted by: Guillaume at February 5, 2007 08:30 PM

.00711356

Posted by: at February 5, 2007 08:38 PM

.0007113

Sorry, forgot to post an e-mail or name the first time...

Posted by: Kurt Vile at February 5, 2007 08:39 PM

98.69395802938

Posted by: Tiffany at February 5, 2007 09:10 PM

812.882

PLEASE?? :)

Posted by: Lacey at February 5, 2007 09:23 PM

0.0523653

Posted by: cookies at February 5, 2007 09:43 PM

I would like to submit the following C++ code:

for (float i = 0; true; i += 0.0000001)
{
cout cout }

Please compile and execute this code until I win some stuff.

Posted by: David Sharpe at February 5, 2007 10:18 PM

3577.643

Posted by: Nicole S at February 5, 2007 10:46 PM

1492

Posted by: Dan Guy at February 6, 2007 05:22 AM

159.26

Posted by: Alana at February 6, 2007 10:09 AM

2/3 of a bazillion

Posted by: Jumbo at February 6, 2007 10:19 AM

will you tell us if it's already been guessed, or is this going to become an endless trail of decimals?

Pi-squared

Posted by: karen at February 6, 2007 10:21 AM

hrmmm..
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
its just a guess... maybe I'm not being specific enough?

Posted by: Erik at February 6, 2007 11:03 AM

shoot!
like 4 people took pi already....
including me?

uhhh
uhhhh
bazillion..point....4?
no... must be between one and a bazillion.. and im point 4 over...
bazillion - .733
there

Posted by: Erik at February 6, 2007 11:06 AM

2007

Posted by: Joe Sutton at February 6, 2007 12:32 PM

341.2

Posted by: Alice at February 6, 2007 01:40 PM

Hey! My code got messed-up! Pseudocode, GO!

FOR (i = 0; forever; i += 0.0000001):
output "I guess that it's " i.
output "I guess that it's " -i.
END FOR.

Ok, so you can't compile it anymore. Just run it in your brain until I win some free stuff.

Posted by: David Sharpe at February 6, 2007 02:21 PM

4893.6

Posted by: Paul at February 6, 2007 05:25 PM

Seven.

Posted by: Neil at February 6, 2007 08:33 PM

.0053

Posted by: megan at February 6, 2007 10:53 PM

11376.5

Posted by: Harriet at February 7, 2007 04:33 AM

700,000,007.

Posted by: Drew at February 7, 2007 09:40 AM

So many numbers are being neglected in favour of pi! I'm guessing these mostly out of solidarity:

13
69
666

Posted by: Sarah at February 7, 2007 01:38 PM

98749.97826374

Posted by: margaret at February 7, 2007 01:41 PM

1.1

Posted by: Herbie at February 7, 2007 01:52 PM

My guess is 1,000,008.


A hint for other posters: .0053, 0.0523653, and .00711356 are not between 1 and a bazillion.


A hint for David Sharpe: intialize your i to 1, not 0, and you will save about 3 hours of computing. (I would also recommend changing the code to add .1 instead of .0000001, or else it will take a few days to get into the triple-digit numbers. Remember, closest guess is the winner; you don't have to get it exactly right.)

Posted by: Luke at February 7, 2007 01:53 PM

365.25 the real number of days in the year... *le sigh* I'm not too creative

Posted by: Mike at February 7, 2007 02:03 PM

it's gotta be eleven

Posted by: yaaronet at February 7, 2007 02:11 PM

...and I too was going to guess pi. Apparently, we're all much less original than we think we are.

43,540,723,165

Posted by: Slade at February 7, 2007 02:14 PM

33.3

Posted by: G at February 7, 2007 02:15 PM

20

Posted by: at February 7, 2007 02:17 PM

333,333.333

becuase "3" is god's gift to numbers.

Posted by: melody at February 7, 2007 02:31 PM

257

Posted by: Matt H at February 7, 2007 02:32 PM

88.88

Posted by: Elinor at February 7, 2007 02:33 PM

4?

Posted by: Erich Buenger at February 7, 2007 02:37 PM

677,000.776 ??

Posted by: Megan James at February 7, 2007 02:37 PM

7,230,567.235

Posted by: joshua twentythree at February 7, 2007 02:39 PM

I say 99.4!

Posted by: Felly at February 7, 2007 02:44 PM

101010.101

Posted by: Jeanne at February 7, 2007 02:47 PM

98.6

Posted by: Todd Briner at February 7, 2007 03:00 PM

3021 like the robot in the flaming lips song.

Posted by: Gage at February 7, 2007 03:01 PM

.97512

Posted by: M. at February 7, 2007 03:27 PM

777.77

Posted by: Marc at February 7, 2007 03:34 PM

i think maybe 43 and a 3rd (low but seems pretty "right feeling")

Posted by: Pbrenna at February 7, 2007 03:38 PM

umm I'm thinking its.. 526,000.5..I so think I've won this.. and if not I might just cuss..

Posted by: Paisley at February 7, 2007 03:59 PM

566.32

Posted by: Christina at February 7, 2007 04:11 PM

3,000,000,002

Posted by: Arthur at February 7, 2007 04:13 PM

5.22

Posted by: Alyssa at February 7, 2007 04:24 PM

8.5

Posted by: Eric at February 7, 2007 05:02 PM

84.6


eh?

Posted by: Lane at February 7, 2007 06:36 PM

42.42

Posted by: Bob at February 7, 2007 06:37 PM

503.76

Posted by: Su-Yee at February 7, 2007 07:35 PM

1,406.09

Posted by: ian at February 7, 2007 07:56 PM

3,426.883

Posted by: Nate at February 7, 2007 09:08 PM

Good point, Luke. I should have read more carefully. I stand by my 0.0000001 increment though: I don't want any clever posters getting the drop on me. I can only recommend that Olga run the code on a distributed computing network.

Posted by: David Sharpe at February 7, 2007 10:30 PM

the golden ratio: 1.618033989 (my personal favorite)

Posted by: the dark lady at February 7, 2007 10:57 PM

23.75

Posted by: Big Tim at February 7, 2007 11:50 PM

12345.6

Posted by: at February 8, 2007 12:20 AM

I have three guesses:

e (approx. 2,71828183)
c (a.k.a. the speed of light, 299 792 458)
phi (a.k.a. the golden ratio, approx. 1.61803399)

Posted by: Grimur at February 8, 2007 12:22 AM

.01

Posted by: Hayley Campbell at February 8, 2007 02:05 AM

I have to say 1337.

Posted by: Hendrik at February 8, 2007 03:17 AM

I think people whose names appear on the cover of one of the prizes should be disqualified. (I'm looking at you, Neil!)

Posted by: Dan Guy at February 8, 2007 03:51 AM

Hm.

123,456,789.1

Posted by: Robyn at February 8, 2007 05:29 AM

1.25

Posted by: Michael Quirk at February 8, 2007 06:28 AM

7.5

Posted by: scott at February 8, 2007 06:51 AM

957842588.854

Posted by: Llynn at February 8, 2007 07:40 AM

12,881,123,189.12135

Posted by: Josh at February 8, 2007 09:18 AM

788.64

Posted by: mt at February 8, 2007 09:49 AM

70,085,086,110,793,000.3

this wouldn't really fly in scientific notation...

Posted by: Nick at February 8, 2007 10:33 AM

735,627,625.025

Posted by: Xeno at February 8, 2007 11:09 AM

5135975.25

Posted by: Andy at February 8, 2007 11:58 AM

1945.13

Posted by: Kat at February 8, 2007 02:33 PM

59,423,681.3

Posted by: danica at February 8, 2007 03:20 PM

894,707,802,113.5

Posted by: Teea at February 8, 2007 04:02 PM

1000.5, of course.

Posted by: ack at February 8, 2007 06:25 PM

927,473,625.19

Posted by: Casey at February 8, 2007 07:29 PM

8.08

Posted by: eric at February 8, 2007 08:26 PM

11.11?

Posted by: Ad at February 9, 2007 11:41 AM

73,658,942,707,012

Posted by: Seth Fellenstein at February 9, 2007 01:18 PM

My guess would be. 2.0

Posted by: Renee at February 9, 2007 02:04 PM

18.2

Posted by: Momo at February 9, 2007 05:36 PM

Is a jillion less than a bazillion?

I'll go for 25 jillion point 69. (I don't know how many zeros at the end of that...)

Posted by: Jamie at February 10, 2007 12:47 AM

672.22

Posted by: Kristine at February 10, 2007 11:13 AM

Mom says its 89736.5 and she´s never wrong.

Posted by: Kevin at February 10, 2007 07:42 PM

33 and a 1/3

Posted by: Wolf at February 10, 2007 09:52 PM

Is it 0.01?

Posted by: Anthony at February 11, 2007 12:36 PM

572.5

Posted by: Nils at February 12, 2007 12:03 AM

6 million

Posted by: Ben at February 12, 2007 02:44 AM

46,931.00058

Posted by: Tara at February 12, 2007 08:02 AM

20438.9827

Posted by: Olivia at February 12, 2007 07:58 PM

18.908271, 10092.29073, 150028972.23168

Posted by: vincent at February 12, 2007 09:47 PM

687.4

Posted by: Meaghan at February 13, 2007 10:26 AM

7,820,365.17

Posted by: emily at February 14, 2007 10:54 AM