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[[The Smallest Weird Number]] is track number 9 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. An excerpt of the track appears in the video portion of the [[Trans Canada Highway Microsite]].
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"[[The Smallest Weird Number]]" is track number 9 on the ''[[Geogaddi]]'' album. An excerpt of the track appears in the video portion of the [[Trans Canada Highway Microsite]].
  
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In mathematics, the smallest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_number weird number] is 70. 70 is part of the name of the band's private label ([[music70]]); [[Sixtyten|sixtyten]] is another way of saying 70.
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* "[[The Smallest Weird Number]]" is 70. As in [[Music70]], [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s own label. A "weird number" is a number that is "abundant" but not "semi-perfect". Meaning? Take all the "proper divisors" of 70 (i.e. all the divisors of 70 except for 70 itself). They are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35. When the proper divisors add up to more than the original number, the original number is said to be abundant. For 70: 1+2+5+7+10+14+35 = 74 > 70, so 70 is "abundant". Now, if there was some SUBSET of these numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35 which added up to 70, then 70 would be said to be "semi-perfect" (or "pseudoperfect") But there isn't. Try it. You can make 71 by missing out the 1 and the 2, or you can make 69 by missing out the 5, but you can't make 70. I hope that explanation is clear. The first few weird numbers are: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10430, 10570, 10792. You can find a longer list of weird numbers  in the "online encyclopedia of integer sequences", from which my shorter listing was taken. This explanation of weird numbers by [DC].
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* Even though the track runs for 1:17 minutes, the melody cuts out at exactly 1:10 (70 seconds).
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== Samples / Lyrics ==
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*At 0:03, the ending of "When the Music Starts to Play" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_String_Band The Incredible String Band] is heard in reverse and at a lower speed. The sample seems to have been taken from an old phonograph record, as crackling is present. See [[The Smallest Weird Number#Videos|Videos]] and this [http://instagram.com/p/yFEgcOD8BH/ short clip] by [[wikipedia:Bibio|Bibio]].
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* From the beginning until around 0:24, the song samples birds singing in the documentary "On the Tracks of the Wild Otter (1983)" <ref>http://twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=244015#p244015</ref> <ref>http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/film/467/On+the+Tracks+of+the+Wild+Otter.html</ref>. The sample can be heard at around 26:53 <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMh7r0LHW4&t=26m53s</ref>.
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*"[[R35TT B10]]" appears in reverse at 0:11. Reverb has been applied to the last chord heard in the present track.
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== Trivia ==
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* In mathematics, the smallest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_number weird number] is 70. 70 is part of the name of the band's private label ([[music70]]); "[[Sixtyten|sixtyten]]" is another way of saying 70.
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== Videos ==
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== Samples/Lyrics ==
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*At 0:03, the ending of "When the Music Starts to Play" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_String_Band The Incredible String Band] is heard in reverse and at a lower speed. The sample seems to have been taken from an old phonograph record, as crackling is present.
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*Track 10 from side B of [[Random 35 Tracks Tape]] appears in reverse at 0:11. Reverb has been applied to the last chord heard in the present track.
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== External links==
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== References ==
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* [[The Smallest Weird Number]] is 70. As in Music70, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s own label. A "weird number" is a number that is "abundant" but not "semi-perfect". Meaning? Take all the "proper divisors" of 70 (i.e. all the divisors of 70 except for 70 itself). They are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35. When the proper divisors add up to more than the original number, the original number is said to be abundant. For 70: 1+2+5+7+10+14+35 = 74 > 70, so 70 is "abundant". Now, if there was some SUBSET of these numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35 which added up to 70, then 70 would be said to be "semi-perfect" (or "pseudoperfect") But there isn't. Try it. You can make 71 by missing out the 1 and the 2, or you can make 69 by missing out the 5, but you can't make 70. I hope that explanation is clear. The first few weird numbers are: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10430, 10570, 10792. You can find a longer list of weird numbers  in the "online encyclopedia of integer sequences", from which my shorter listing was taken. This explanation of weird numbers by [DC].
 
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* Even though the track runs for 1:17 minutes, the melody cuts out at exactly 1:10 (70 seconds).
 
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* May be about "Fanny And Alexander" by Ingmar Bergman (called "one of the longest cinematic films in history")<ref>http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_and_Alexander</ref> The 1 looks like a person sitting sideways without a fanny (butt), :1 is "and" or "och", and 7 is "A Lick Sanders" as a reference to "A Christmas Story" where someone sticks his tongue on a frosted pole and gets it stuck (the / is the tongue and the --- is the spit trail). This has to do with small numbers because Hyperbolic Rotation with Lorentz Transformations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#Visualizing_the_transformations_in_Minkowski_space) is a matter regarding warping, BoC's label (like Music70).  Fanny and Alexander is Ingmar Bergman's analysis of UFOs and Black Holes (the intro scene http://youtube.com/watch?v=nE3ESgz6F0c with similar music box sounds to [[Boqurant]], is about an alien abduction/alien implant surgery in a UFO (signified by the horse drawn cart)). Ismael later discusses alien implants when discussing vodou dolls and "sticking needles" into cloth people. Fanny and Alexander may also be considered a pioneer in vegan films, because (though it was shot on 35mm) it was broadcast on television rather than in prints at a theater. Also a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons–Hawking_effect Gibbons-Hawking Effect] (Nanners och Salamander - Herbivores and Saliva) referencing temperature, because 70Β° Farenheit is "good weather", the UFO abduction is broken by the sound of ice being poured into a bucket, the Ismael scene is broken by fire being set, and commercial animal agriculture of the cow is the leading cause of global warming.
 
 
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Revision as of 22:48, 29 March 2017

The Smallest Weird Number
Running time 1:17
Appears on Geogaddi


"The Smallest Weird Number" is track number 9 on the Geogaddi album. An excerpt of the track appears in the video portion of the Trans Canada Highway Microsite.

Comments

  • "The Smallest Weird Number" is 70. As in Music70, BoC's own label. A "weird number" is a number that is "abundant" but not "semi-perfect". Meaning? Take all the "proper divisors" of 70 (i.e. all the divisors of 70 except for 70 itself). They are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35. When the proper divisors add up to more than the original number, the original number is said to be abundant. For 70: 1+2+5+7+10+14+35 = 74 > 70, so 70 is "abundant". Now, if there was some SUBSET of these numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35 which added up to 70, then 70 would be said to be "semi-perfect" (or "pseudoperfect") But there isn't. Try it. You can make 71 by missing out the 1 and the 2, or you can make 69 by missing out the 5, but you can't make 70. I hope that explanation is clear. The first few weird numbers are: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10430, 10570, 10792. You can find a longer list of weird numbers in the "online encyclopedia of integer sequences", from which my shorter listing was taken. This explanation of weird numbers by [DC].
  • Even though the track runs for 1:17 minutes, the melody cuts out at exactly 1:10 (70 seconds).

Samples / Lyrics

  • At 0:03, the ending of "When the Music Starts to Play" by The Incredible String Band is heard in reverse and at a lower speed. The sample seems to have been taken from an old phonograph record, as crackling is present. See Videos and this short clip by Bibio.
  • From the beginning until around 0:24, the song samples birds singing in the documentary "On the Tracks of the Wild Otter (1983)" [1] [2]. The sample can be heard at around 26:53 [3].
  • "R35TT B10" appears in reverse at 0:11. Reverb has been applied to the last chord heard in the present track.

Trivia

  • In mathematics, the smallest weird number is 70. 70 is part of the name of the band's private label (music70); "sixtyten" is another way of saying 70.

Videos

(skip to 26m53)

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=244015#p244015
  2. ↑ http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/film/467/On+the+Tracks+of+the+Wild+Otter.html
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMh7r0LHW4&t=26m53s