93 million miles

Here's a good one...

If you took all of your strands of DNA and put them side to side in one straight line, how long would the line be?

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Originally Posted by worthbeads

Here's a Math question:

There is a code to your computer and you forgot what the code was. Assuming
there are no capitals or any symbol of any sort, and all you use is lowercase letters and numbers. What is the probability of randomly punching in a five spaced code. (Hint: The code doesn't have to spell something or make sense)

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1/(36^5), whatever that is ; I don't have a calculator handy at the moment and I'm sure not going to do the calcualtion by hand!

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Originally Posted by s_cianci

1/(36^5), whatever that is ; I don't have a calculator handy at the moment and I'm sure not going to do the calcualtion by hand!

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= 1 / 60,466,176
or 0.0000000165381716879202
or 1.65382E-08

Correct

I was going to ask you what was Einstein's job before becoming a famous physicist and where he worked, but since I thought that was too easy, and there hasn't been a history question, which just so happens to be my favorite subject, I will give a mildly tough one. What Austrian royalty was assassinated and inevitably caused World War One?

It's been awhile since this was posted, and I still don't know.

June 28, 1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated.



Here is a question for you all...

For how many days (and when were they) has Canada NOT had a Prime Minister?

Hint: You are going to have to go back to the 19th century to answer this one.