Massive Giveaway: Guess the Number, Win a Book

In a case of poor communication between publicists, I have ended up with not one but two advance copies of Massive by Ian Sample, a forthcoming book about the Higgs Boson. As I barely have time to read one, I don’t remotely need two; thus, I will dispose of one with a really simple contest:

I am thinking of an integer between 0 and 1000 (inclusive). The person who comes closest to guessing the number by midnight Eastern time Friday, November 5 wins a copy of Massive.

Leave your guess in the comments. One entry per commenter, please. In the event that two or more people choose the same winning number, the tie will be broken based on the time stamp on the comment, so get your guess in quickly. The winner will be announced on Saturday, and contacted by email to the address left with the comment, so please provide a legitimate email address.

154 comments

  8. 111. Not to horn in on ralmon’s guess, but it’s the number of millions of records returned if you Google “Massive.”

    K

  23. 2468.

    I enjoy leaving comments and playing guessing games, but don’t really want the book.

  32. 925

    I pass on the book, I already know the ending of this story – Higgs boson is a delusion 😉

  39. print sorted([ [sum( [abs(x-n) for n in [343, 1000, 756, 117, 115, 550, 622, 331, 137, 738, 314, 781, 657, 42, 888, 18, 707, 227, 20, 115, 12, 89, 599, 1000, 272, 666, 483, 256]] ),x] for x in range(1000)], key=lambda x:-x[0] )[0][1]

    My entry is 999 (maximal absolute linear distance to all previous (except 2468) entries. Please consider this only if you would be willing to ship to Europe (-;

    Cheerio

  43. 5. Here’s why: The number of Higgs Bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model is five. So, if I win, I want to win with irony.

  64. 13 (Come on, lucky 13!)

    I’m in France, but if you’d rather not ship to Europe (understandably) I can give you a US address and pick it up on my next trip there. 🙂

  114. It’s already been taken, but I figured since tomorrow is my birthday I have to go with 115. : ) (Yes, I’m shamelessly trying to score extra points.) : )

  152. Based on these:
    0 0 1 1 3 3 5 6 7 7 11 12 13 19 20 23 37 42 42 42 67 69 70 70 87 89 97 111 114 115 115 115 117 118 120 124 129 136 137 147 148 153 168 180 185 199 201 222 227 253 255 256 257 266 272 280 289 301 314 317 319 321 327 331 343 357 361 375 377 397 412 418 420 422 426 431 432 446 451 466 472 479 483 500 525 526 550 555 556 570 576 586 599 608 614 618 620 622 627 628 635 642 657 666 666 666 668 672 682 697 704 707 711 714 726 731 732 736 738 738 739 748 753 756 777 781 796 800 815 818 820 842 863 888 897 909 909 925 944 978 998 999 1000 1000

    The numbers 961, 240, 875, 512, 54, and 538 look decreasingly pretty, any takers?

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