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March 10, 2006

DDC highlights (6)

Filed under: Library — Will @ 2:04 pm

Has it really been a month? More selected numbers, this time from the latest two sets of Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

  • The eyes have it: Peacocks in art - 704.943286258
  • Vicar of Dibleyest number: Clergy on television - 791.456827
  • 100,00 BC: Prehistoric peoples on television - 791.45658
  • “But she hates James Blunt already”: Musical perception in infants - 155.422215
  • Don’t go there: Sin City (Imaginary place) - 741.5973
  • We’re turning Chinese, I really think so: Sinicization - 303.48251
  • The fraud that got away was this big: Phishing - 005.8
  • Beam me up, Scotty: Quantum teleportation - 530.12
  • Fairly long number: Sephardim in literature - 809.933529924046
  • Very long number: Quetzalcoatl in literature - 808.80382997845202113

These large numbers are, however, dwarfed by this monstrosity from the Canadian subject mapping for works about a four-and-a-half month strike at the Versatile tractor plant in Winnipeg:

Buhler Versatile Inc. Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 2000-2001 - 331.892829225209712743090511

Wow. It’s certainly the longest I’ve ever seen. And they say size isn’t everything.

I see they’ve picked this one out at Dewey Towers too.

4 Comments »

  1. What is the DDC number for pi?

    Comment by James Graham — March 10, 2006 @ 3:38 pm

  2. 512.73, which is the number for analytic number theory, is probably the closest mapping.

    Comment by Will — March 10, 2006 @ 4:01 pm

  3. That’s just rubbish.

    Comment by James Graham — March 10, 2006 @ 4:23 pm

  4. The closest DDC numbers to pi I can offer are 003.1, which is computer system identification, and 314.15, which is statistics about Ireland.

    Comment by Will — March 10, 2006 @ 4:35 pm

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