69105 (number)
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The number 69,105 was used as an in-joke at Infocom. It has occasionally cropped up in later games as a tribute to Infocom.
| Cardinal | Sixty-nine thousand one hundred and five |
| Ordinal | 69105th |
| Factorization | <math> 3 \cdot 5 \cdot 17 \cdot 271<math> |
| Binary | 10000110111110001 |
| Hexadecimal | 10DF1 |
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In mathematics
69105 is the third 23036-gonal number and the fifth 6912-gonal number. It is also 510-gonal and 660-gonal.
Appearances
Appearances in Infocom games
Bureaucracy
"Ticket number 69105. Seat 25F. Acme Building Auditorium."
Under some circumstances, the game produces "INTERNAL ERROR 69105".
Deadline
The serial number on the pharmacy label on the tablets is 69105.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
There are 69,105 leaves in the sack found in Cleveland, Ohio. (The same joke also appears in Trinity.)
Zork Zero
"This zoo, with 69,105 cages, is easily the largest in Quendor."
Zork I
Probably its most famous appearance:
- On the ground is a pile of leaves.
- <tt>>count leaves
- <tt>There are 69,105 leaves here.
Appearances in later games
In Adam Cadre's game I-0:
- <tt>>open trunk
- <tt>You open the trunk, revealing your laundry.
- <tt>>x laundry
- <tt>There are 69,105 pieces of laundry here.
Significance of the number
Nick Montfort, in his book Twisty Little Passages (ISBN 0262134365), suggests that the number was chosen because in its written form it falls naturally into two parts with an unusual relationship:
- 69 in hexadecimal is 105 in decimal
- 69 in decimal is 105 in octal