In case you were also wondering

[Jacklitsch]

Well, I'm sitting around doing nothing, trying to figure out why our newest member CON40 is number 862 yet there are only 844 active members.

The answer lies in the thread catagories. net54baseball.com is Leon and is, as we would expect, number 1. Then the main with each of its subsets has a "member" number as well as the BST and each of its subsets and the postwar board and each of its subsets. The total of all these is 18 and that explains the difference.

I have to get a life!

member 31

[marvjung]

Originally Posted by Jacklitsch

Well, I'm sitting around doing nothing, trying to figure out why our newest member CON40 is number 862 yet there are only 844 active members.

The answer lies in the thread catagories. net54baseball.com is Leon and is, as we would expect, number 1. Then the main with each of its subsets has a "member" number as well as the BST and each of its subsets and the postwar board and each of its subsets. The total of all these is 18 and that explains the difference.

I have to get a life!

member 31

So that means we all have variations???!!! Imagine the irony.......

[slantycouch]

I run a vBulletin messageboard where the next user is around 4800, but we only have 900 members. I get approximately 10-20 "fake" signups each day from spammers, etc. As they are deleted, user number climbs, but registered users falls. That may also explain some of it.

[Leon]

Thanks for reaffirming what I have seen. I have about 30 in total that have been spam type registrations. My problem/solution is that I need to put the good members that don't register the correct way into the group of banned people that include the spammers. Then when they ask I tell them why and it's ok. It's hard to explain unless you go through it.....but that is why I am being a bit strict on the confirmation emails....and maybe why a few have voted they don't like the new board. We'll never please everyone....

[slantycouch]

Originally Posted by Leon

Thanks for reaffirming what I have seen. I have about 30 in total that have been spam type registrations. My problem/solution is that I need to put the good members that don't register the correct way into the group of banned people that include the spammers. Then when they ask I tell them why and it's ok. It's hard to explain unless you go through it.....but that is why I am being a bit strict on the confirmation emails....and maybe why a few have voted they don't like the new board. We'll never please everyone....

There are some tricks of the trade to cut down on those spam regs. Unfortunately the number of fake registrations will go up as time goes on. There are some tricks of the trade to avoid them. Shoot me a PM if you want info!

[Kotton King]

So, just out of curiosity, how do you view your member number?

[slantycouch]

Originally Posted by Kotton King

So, just out of curiosity, how do you view your member number?

Scroll over your name and look at the bottom. It will say something like: "http://www.net54baseball.com/member.php?u=820", where "u" = your user number.

[ullmandds]

wow...69 for me...the year I was born...and so much more!

[Doug]

I'm #52. Nothing really relevant there that I'm aware of.

[calvindog]

Dude, sex and baseball cards do NOT mix. Um, I mean unless you're at a Yankee game.

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Dude, sex and baseball cards do NOT mix. Um, I mean unless you're at a Yankee game.

When considering the pros and cons I guess that's a check mark for TPG and slabs.

[Doug]

I knew there was a reason I didn't take my cards to games...

[Kotton King]

Originally Posted by slantycouch

Scroll over your name and look at the bottom. It will say something like: "http://www.net54baseball.com/member.php?u=820", where "u" = your user number.

Thank you....that was a lot easier then I thought it was. #30 for me.

[egbeachley]

I waited too long a got crappy 593.

Edited to add:

Hey....593 ain't so bad after all. It is a special prime number whose square is greater than the product of its neighboring two primes - called a Good Prime. It is also a Right Prime because it remains prime after dropping any number of digits from the right...i.e. 593, 59, and 5 are all prime.

It is also the sum of seven consecutive primes (71 + 73 + 79 + 83 + 89 + 97 + 101) and the sum of nine consecutive primes (47 + 53 + 59 + 61 + 67 + 71 + 73 + 79 + 83).

Cool!

[FrankWakefield]

Eric, thank you for asking... I had wondered the same, wandered back to the CP and was fooling around there, came back here, and saw your question and the answer.

FW - member 124

[Kehfee]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Dude, sex and baseball cards do NOT mix. Um, I mean unless you're at a Yankee game.

Hot.

Oh and 39 for me.

[Anthony S.]

I just hope "CON" represents his initials and not his avocation.

edited to add: My cousin was killed by a prime number. It's okay though, he was kind of a tool.

[Cat]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

Hey....593 ain't so bad after all. It is a special prime number whose square is greater than the product of its neighboring two primes - called a Good Prime.

I was just thinking that

[Kotton King]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

I waited too long a got crappy 593.

Edited to add:

Hey....593 ain't so bad after all. It is a special prime number whose square is greater than the product of its neighboring two primes - called a Good Prime. It is also a Right Prime because it remains prime after dropping any number of digits from the right...i.e. 593, 59, and 5 are all prime.

It is also the sum of seven consecutive primes (71 + 73 + 79 + 83 + 89 + 97 + 101) and the sum of nine consecutive primes (47 + 53 + 59 + 61 + 67 + 71 + 73 + 79 + 83).

Cool!

WOW! That's deep.

[rhettyeakley]

Eric, I too am a prime number (#103.)

According to Wikipedia #103 is the 27th prime number. The previous prime is 101, making them both twin primes. It is also a happy number.

I am so excited I ended up with a happy number!

-Rhett

[terjung]

Since we are on the topic of obscure references for our user number. Mine user number is 77. What is apropos about that? Well, not only is it the sum of the first 8 prime numbers and a Blum integer, it also has a vintage baseball reference.

It along with the #78 forms a Ruth-Aaron pair.

In mathematics, a Ruth-Aaron pair consists of two consecutive integers (e.g. 714 and 715) for which the sums of the prime factors of each integer are equal:

714 = 2 × 3 × 7 × 17
715 = 5 × 11 × 13
and 2 + 3 + 7 + 17 = 5 + 11 + 13 = 29

I would imagine that this is called a Ruth-Aaron pair due to the sequence followed with the HR record being broken, but that probably goes without saying.

If only distinct prime factors are counted, the first few Ruth-Aaron pairs are:
(5, 6), (24, 25), (49, 50), (77, 78), (104, 105), (153, 154), (369, 370), (492, 493), (714, 715), ...

Thanks to Wikipedia for the reference.

[ullmandds]

a blum integer! now I've heard everything!