• @HonoraryMancunian
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    1 year ago

    It’s their first number containing different digits that’s the same either way up

    (Edited to be more correct)

    • jungle
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      11 year ago

      Still not seeing it, lol. I guess you mean it would be their 69, except that you need one to be the upside down version of the other…? I don’t know. Someone should write a research paper on this. :D

      • @HonoraryMancunian
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        -11 year ago

        69 is (our) 69 because the whole thing is the same when you rotate it 180°

        As is XIX

        :)

        • @kemsat
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          71 year ago

          I thought it was because the 6 is a dude with his dick out, and 9 is a girl with her tits out, or the 9 is another dude flipped around…

          • @AA5B
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            51 year ago

            Huh, I thought it was because that’s where the head is.

            • @kemsat
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              21 year ago

              I remember what my friend taught me in middle school!

        • @overcast5348
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          51 year ago

          69 isn’t “the funny” number because it’s an ambigram. It’s the “funny number” because it’s the sex position number.

          You’re one of that’s 10000: https://xkcd.com/1053/ :)

        • jungle
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          51 year ago

          Nah, that’s not how 69 works

          • @HonoraryMancunian
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            31 year ago

            Yes it is! One person one way, one person the other. From the 180 perspective, the same.

            The participants are thus mutually inverted like the numerals 6 and 9 in the number 69

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)

            Unless you’re meaning it specifically has to be 2 digits, and therefore XIX doesn’t qualify? If so that’s fair (it was just the closest analogue I could think of. Maybe II would indeed be better).

            • jungle
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              41 year ago

              I can’t believe I have to explain this, but the key to 69 is that the two “people” are in opposite directions to reach other, not that the pair looks the same from either direction.

            • @AA5B
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              41 year ago

              I think you passed over two people having sex, and went right to a three way