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William_Quixote comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 11 March 2015 06:16:20AM *  8 points [-]

It's also almost exactly 368 and 2/9 uses per siderial day, the actual period of rotation of the earth without reference to the sun.

It would've been exactly that figure about 5,300 years ago.

Comment author: William_Quixote 11 March 2015 03:41:53PM 9 points [-]

Based on that timing the stone was Gilgamesh's pearl

Comment author: gwern 11 March 2015 04:00:06PM 11 points [-]

And guess who steals Gilgamesh's How-the-Old-Man-Once-Again-Becomes-A-Young-Man plant? That's right, a snake.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 11 March 2015 04:08:00PM 4 points [-]

Ain't numerology grand?