Adam J

Normally when writing a four digit number a comma is placed between the first and second numbers. However people rarely if ever seem to insert the comma when writing a four digit year (such as 2011). Why is this?

I want to download some financial information into Excel, and be able to sort through it. Unfortunately for some categories instead of giving a simple number (say 485,000,000) the downloaded information lists a number followed by millions or billions (ie 485m) and Excel doesn't automatically sort this information properly. Is there any way to get Excel to convert a number like 3.2B or 485M into a real number?

Just curious...

when people want to know what scores they need to get into Harvard/ Stanford/ Berkeley/ Oxbridge/ The London School of Economics/ Chico State/ The Podunk U State School of Podiatry they come here rather than just googling the school and asking people who might know?

I hope it doesn't, but...

And is anyone actually a natural platinum blonde?

Will Republicans actually vote for a candidate who is not opposed to abortion? Or will he flame out when his stance on the issue becomes more widely known?

Any recommendations appreciated.

For example my sister is in Thailand right now, and I'm always blown away that it takes a couple of seconds to send her a message. Do you ever sit back and think to yourself 'wow, it's fantastic that we can do 'x'?

I've been studying stock options lately, and happened to glance at QQQQ's. I noticed that two different listings for the 43 calls for this month (QQQCQ & UQQCQ) that these had different prices and had fluctuated by different percentage amounts of Fri. I'm trying to figure out why. Anyone know what the difference between the two is?

If you own an options contract on a company, and the company is bought out, what happens to the options contract?

who's putting them on, what stage they're in, when information can be expected to come. My thanks in advance.

Note: this is a halfway serious question. I see a lot of people living more and more of their lives online on places like Myspace (this also goes for folks who spent sixteen hours at a stretch playing world of warcraft) and I can't help but wonder when (and it probably is a when, not an if) someone figures out how to actually plug someone directly into a computer how many people will simply choose to live their lives entirely online in some artificial construct. Thoughts?

Does God know every digit of pi?

This occured to me lately for who knows what reason, and I found it amusing and thought I'd share it with you all. Wether yes or no, please justify your answer (cause just yes or no is kinda boring.)

The US Postal Service successfully delivered a letter with only the folling information on it:

HILL

JOHN

MASS

Whats the name of the recipient and where did the letter go (city/state)? First person to give the complete correct answer gets ten points.

(Hint: you'll get a full name a city and a state, which is Massachusetts, but that's not exactly giving away much.)

Why not say, a 0-600 point scale? And while we're on the subject, why did the LSAT decide to switch to a 120-180 point scale? Anyone know if there's any rhyme or reason to any of this?

I've heard this expression a million times, and it suddenly occured to me-- is it actually possible to teach an old dog new tricks?

I was playing around on Yahoo finance's stock screener and noticed that the institutional ownership for some companies is well over 100%. (Indeed there seemed to be one company called Hafmark financial with 484% institutional ownership.) I was curious to know how this was possible. Thanks in advance--Adam J