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The number 69,105 was used as an in-joke at American computer game manufacturer Infocom
. It has occasionally cropped up in later computer games as a tribute to Infocom.

Cardinal Sixty-nine thousand one hundred five
Ordinal69105th
Factorization 3 \cdot 5 \cdot 17 \cdot 271

Binary10000110111110001
Hexadecimal10DF1

In mathematics

69105 is the third 23036-gonal number and the fifth 6912-gonal number. It is also 510-gonal and 660-gonal.

Appearances

Appearances in Infocom games

Bureaucracy
"Ticket number 69105. Seat 25F. Acme Building Auditorium."

Under some circumstances, the game produces "INTERNAL ERROR 69105".
Deadline
The serial number on the pharmacy label on the tablets is 69105.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
There are 69,105 leaves in the sack found in Cleveland, Ohio. (The same joke also appears in Trinity and Zork I.)
Zork Zero
"This zoo, with 69,105 cages, is easily the largest in Quendor
.
"
Zork I
Probably its most famous appearance: :On the ground is a pile of leaves.
:>count leaves
:There are 69,105 leaves here.

Appearances in later games

In Adam Cadre
's game I-0: :>open trunk :You open the trunk, revealing your laundry. :>x laundry :There are 69,105 pieces of laundry here.

In the Kingdom of Loathing strange leaflet game-within-game, you can count leaves and find 69,105 of them.

Significance of the number

Nick Montfort, in his book Twisty Little Passages (ISBN 0262134365), suggests that the number was chosen because in its written form it falls naturally into two parts with an unusual relationship:
  • 69 in hexadecimal is 105 in decimal
  • 69 in decimal is 105 in octal
and also because 69 is the common name of a sexual position.

The same natural relationship applies to 1,001, 2,002, 3,003, 4,004, 5,005, 6,006, 7,007, 64,100, 65,101, 66,102, 67,103, and 68,104. However, 69,105 is the highest number with this property (mathematically, the set of numbers having the following property: n = hex(oct(n)); ).

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