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John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO

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1, 12, 4, 9, 2, 11, 6, 7, 3, 10, 5, 8.

 

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It looks vaguely familiar too...

A bit like the firing orders you used to see on old Lamborghini rocker covers et.

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the order of 13 rule for valve clearance setting--6 cyl overhead valve engine.

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Yep, that's the firing order for a Lamborghini V12.  That's for the Audi L539 version of the V12 mind, before 2011 it was 1-7-4-10-2-8-6-12-3-9-5-11.

i am a very sad man. 

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11 minutes ago, Captain Colonial said:

Yep, that's the firing order for a Lamborghini V12.

i am a very sad man. 

 

Yes, you're right on both counts. Aventador.

 

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4433618.75

An obscure one for a certain breed of geek. Bonus points for a full explanation.

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4 hours ago, Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO said:

Is it to do with tv transmission 

It is. Or rather, it was might be more accurate. :)

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16 minutes ago, pistonbroke said:

Not to difficult to fathom if you copy and paste  1, 12, 4, 9, 2, 11, 6, 7, 3, 10, 5, 8.   into Google 

 

Not too difficult for Google then. What would we do without it?

Tried to start Mr Grumpy on 1, 3, 4, 2. Didn't work.

 

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12 hours ago, bollockybill said:

 

Not too difficult for Google then. What would we do without it?

Tried to start Mr Grumpy on 1, 3, 4, 2. Didn't work.

 

Perhaps you need a new pea in your whistle :rolleyes:    ( google 1,3,4,2. ) 

 

 

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19 hours ago, corsechris said:

4433618.75

An obscure one for a certain breed of geek. Bonus points for a full explanation.

Following pistonbroke's advice I just copy and pasted 4433618.75 into Scott (I mean Google) to get the answer.

What will happen when most of the planet have forgotten everything and there is a breakdown in civilization and no Google?

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Having spent the best years of my life as a TV Eng I didn't need to Google " 4433618.75 Mhz as the "colour burst " frequency of a Phase Alternate Line colour decoder  

very briefly its the frequency generated in a PAL colour system  to synchronise the receiver with the transmitted signal and decode the transmitted chroma signal  . 

A full explanation would take several pages of advanced maths and a whole lot of typing  , not much point unless you are a tv / radio geek in which case go Google 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

 

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