Forbenius Nuggets

I watched this YouTube video which explored the Forbenius numbers involved in ordering Chicken McNuggets from your local McDonald’s. It turns out to be a rather complicated operation to order 43 nuggets.
Meg texted me minutes later that she was getting out of work.
I responded with my strong desire to consume Chicken McNuggets.
Oliver: Hey… I know that we planned on breakfast for dinner, but I just saw a video featuring Chicken McNuggets. Don’t they sound good?
Meg: That does sound good.
Oliver: Want to pick up 43 or so?
Meg: Also, that text just caused the McDonald’s marketing department to ejaculate in their pants.
We’ll see if Meg brings home 43. I suspect she’ll get a lower amount due to the difficulties of Forbenius numbers—or maybe because it’s not healthy to eat 43 nuggets in one sitting. Either one.

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October 10, 2012

now i am thinking of McD for lunch 🙂

October 16, 2012

I’m not a big fan of the nuggets, but I do like going there for breakfast. Later,

October 16, 2012

I love the caddis fly lure. Proof that God created fly fishing! (or something) Numbers are fascinating. My first reaction was that “well, there are infinitely many numbers you can’t get, therefore no largest one.” And I guess that’s sort of half right. With the set of numbers that McDonalds offers, there is a largest, but with some sets of numbers, like {2, 6, 34}, you couldn’t get anyodd number, so there isn’t any largest amount. Some people are intimately familiar with numbers (i.e. are real number geeks). Do you know the Ramanujan story about 1729? It’s at http://www.durangobill.com/Ramanujan.html I like some of McDonald’s stuff, but it’s so salty. (But that’s what makes it taste good) Davo