Random Interesting Stuff

Interesting that...

52 is	100 base sqrt(52) = 7.2111025...
   and	64 base 8

64 is	100 base 8
   and	64 base 10

100 is	100 base 10
   and	64 base 16

256 is	100 base 16
   and	64 base 42 (!)

1,764 is 100 base 42
   and	64 base	293.333...

OK, so this has gone on too long...

Book / Play / Movie translations that totally changed the plot but left the intent and feel intact:

• Hair: play -> movie
• Howl's Moving Castle: book -> movie
• The Hunt for Red October: book -> movie
• Ocean's Eleven: movie (1960) -> movie (2001)
• War of the Worlds: book -> movie (1953)
• When Worlds Collide: book -> movie

Word pairs where the negative and positive forms mean the same:

• flammable / inflammable
• ravel / unravel
• regardless / irregardless (non-standard)

Lost contrapositive (i.e., the base form was a word, the negative was created, and the base form is no longer a word.

• dis gruntled
• dis mayed
• im promptu
• in ane
• in congruous(?)
• in digent
• in dignant
• in domitable
• in ert
• in ertia
• in ept
• in hibited
• in nuendo
• ir ritable
• in sipid
• in sipience