MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4301 Post by worcej » Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:09 pm


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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4302 Post by BK3K » Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:09 pm

fuck

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#4303 Post by KoalaAttack » Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:10 pm

Good Game everyone!

It was really fun – and exciting till the very end!

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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4304 Post by Chaqa » Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:11 pm

I KNEW IT KOALA

I should have stuck to my guns on that one
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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4305 Post by Chaqa » Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:12 pm

Lfischl and TFB were both town... oof.
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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4306 Post by Kakarroto » Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:07 pm

dargorygel wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:39 pm
GM TIMELY FACTS

Why do we have 60 minutes in an hour?

The answer the interwebby thing gave: THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal (counting in 60s) system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC. The use of 12 subdivisions for day and night, with 60 for hours and minutes, turns out to be much more useful than (say) 10 and 100 if you want to avoid having to use complicated notations for parts of a day. Twelve is divisible by two, three, four, six and 12 itself - whereas 10 has only three divisers - whole numbers that divide it a whole number of times. Sixty has 12 divisers and because 60 = 5 x 12 it combines the advantages of both 10 and 12. In fact both 12 and 60 share the property that they have more divisers than any number smaller than themselves. This doesn't, of course, explain how this system spread throughout the world.
It's like the right hand of the GM said, but one handy information was left out: it's all because of the anatomy of the hand(s)! See, babylonians counted with their hands ... but in another system as us. They used the phalanx of each finger to count and since each finger has 3 phalanxes, that goes up to 12 per hand.

"Now wait a second, that would only go up to 24 if they used both hands", you might say, but they used the other hand to keep count how many times they counted up (like if the left hand was at 2 and the right at the seventh phalanx, it would've been 2x12 + 7, so 33).

And the thumb of the counting hand? Even if there are two phalanxes, it didn't count, since they used the thumb to 'mark' where they are, like a pointer. You can try it yourself, it's quite a nice and intuitive system.

Personally though, I ask myself, why thy didn't use this system with both hands ... they could've counted up to 144 with both hands that way ...

...then again, imagine there would be 144 seconds in a minute and 144 minutes in an hour ... how much time we could save!
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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4307 Post by TheFlyingBoat » Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:22 pm

Chaqa wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:12 pm
Lfischl and TFB were both town... oof.
I did say lfischl was the easy MK though admittedly I did want you over Koala until you voted me in panic at the end. That was pretty townie

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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4308 Post by ghug » Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:46 pm

Chaqa wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:12 pm
Lfischl and TFB were both town... oof.
But Boat and I defended each other so much!

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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4309 Post by KoalaAttack » Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:22 am

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Re: MAFIA 78: Random Facts [GAME THREAD] - [HIDDEN]

#4310 Post by KoalaAttack » Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:28 am

Sorry, I needed that to be quotable :)

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