Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 11/Answers/Question 13
Brainstorming.
- Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady? Doctor Dolittle?
- 365 - number of days in a non-leap year, a centered square number
- The Countess of Wessex - Sophie
- 639 - sum of the first twenty prime numbers
- Aron Ralston - amputated his own arm with a penknife
- 887 - a prime number, a safe prime, a Chen prime, an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part
- George Best - brilliant footballer from Northern Ireland
- (5 digits)?
- and HM George III - British king from the House of Hanover, with suspected porphyria
- (4 digits)
Well, that didn't help at all... -- ALoan (Talk) 22:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- Of the 12 extra links you suggested, one is relevant. Dmn 00:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
- Great! I am clearly not approaching this from the right angle... -- ALoan (Talk) 11:44, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
ICD-9 codes
[edit]- Rex Harrison suffered glaucoma, ICD-9 code 365.
- Sophie, Countess of Wessex had complications following an abortion, ICD-9 639
- Aron Ralston performed himself an Traumatic amputation of arm and hand (887)
- George Best suffered from Alcoholism, chronic, continuous (303.91).
- George_III was allegedly subject to Toxic effect of arsenic and its compounds (985.1)
- edit: or, as ALoan said, porphyria (277.1) or the three-digit erysipelas (035). Ravn 13:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
-- Ravn 13:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
- Oh gosh, that must be right! Presumably porphyria was the only relevant link... And you "saw" 493 once - asthma? -- ALoan (Talk) 14:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
- It is right indeed. 493 is the comment for question 7. The comment for question 13 is "I've only had 052" which is plain old Chickenpox. 30 points for User:Ravn. Dmn 16:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)