What is the origin of 4/20?
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Bob Marley died May 11th 1981 & the police code 420 doesn't exsist.  \nAccording to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. Intent on developing their own discreet language, they made 420 code for a time to get high, and its use spread among members of an entire generation. While our teens feel that they know something we don't, you can let them in on the fact that it was your generation that came up with the numbers. \n\nA quote from one of the Waldos in the High Times article states, "We did discover we could talk about getting high in front of our parents without them knowing by using the phrase 420." Fortunately, your teenagers will not have that same option
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when x = 4, the formula would be\n\ny=5/4 ( 4 )\ny = 20 / 4 = 5
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12/4 = 60/20\n4/5= 16/20\n60/20-16/20= 44/20\n44/20= 2 4/20\n2 4/20= 2 1/5\nso the answer is 2 1/5! :)\nyou need to simplify the 11/5 which makes it 2 and 1/5
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"The origin of this scoring comes from the (quarterly) stations of the clock, where 'forty' was, presumably, easier to say than 'forty-five.'"
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1.4 grams or 1/20 of an ounce
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That's a very good question. The choices weren't actually arbitrary. What the numbers 60 and 24 have in common is that they both have a lot of factors. This makes it easy to talk about not just a half hour, but also a quarter of an hour, a third of an hour, a fifth or a twelfth of an hour... \n\nAnother number that was chosen for it's number of factors is the number of degrees in a circle: 360.
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4 is the answer. Here's how:\n4 appears after a break of two numbers, so the number that follows 40 must be 4
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3/4 is NOT a whole number is a fraction....\nit is 0.75...............!!
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The english came up with the seconds and minutes thing.\n\nA "minute" is a "minute fraction" (1/60) of an hour. 60 was chosen for being easily divisible into two, three, four, five, and six parts. A "second" is a "second minute fraction" of an hour (1/60*1/60 = 1/3600).\n\nI believe that the romans were the first to use a system of 24 hours. 24 was selected, again, for being easily divisible into two, three, four, and six parts.
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The common ratio is 1/4 or .25
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Well 5-0 means police. It came from a show I'm sure old farts remember Hawaii 5-0. And 4-20 is the national day for smoking weed (pot, Mary J, Buddha, chronic,wacky weed, marijuana). some people claim it is because the California police use this code for an arrest. but apparently the term predates the California police usage. \nhmmmm another one. 411. information from the telephone. hmmm maybe i'm getting old to i can't think of anymore. I7ll check and get back to you.\n\n\nok here's some more\n 187\n1. murder. Derived from the police call sign.  \n\n 2 cents\n1. advice or opinion.  "Ain't nobody axed you fo yo 2 cents!"  \n\n 211\n1. The police call sign for a robbery.  \n\n 211 (two-eleven)\n1. a carjacking. Derived from the police call sign.  \n\n 411\n1. n. Information. Derived from the phone number for information.  "I need the 411."  \n\n 420\n1. see "four-twenty"  \n\n\n 8 ball\n1. (n) Malt Liquor or Old English 800, a popular alcoholic drink in the hood.  2. (n) In drug terms, an eighth of an ounce.
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So far the majority of you are incorrect.\n420's origin IS known.\nthe term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. Intent on developing their own discreet language, they made 420 code for a time to get high, and its use spread among members of an entire generation.\nSo there ya go, someone's parents out there invented the term 4/20.\nAnd remember this:\nThere are NOT 420 chemicals in Weed. It's about 315, the num. goes up or down depending on what you're smoking.\n4/20 is NOT police code or Maryjane.\nAnd that whole shit about Holland and 4/20 over there being "tea time" for smokers isn't true either.
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6.24 - - answer\n\nThe place value of 4 is in the hundredth.
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Snopes.com, High Times Magazine, and The Straight Dope claim that in the early 1970s, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to meet every day to smoke marijuana after school at 4:20 PM at the water tower.\n\nOne piece of evidence supporting an origin of the term from the time 4:20 is the fact that the number is always said "four twenty" and not "four hundred twenty".\n\nIn 1955, Raj Kapoor directed a film entitled Shree 420 (Mr. 420), a common slang reference to someone who has a reputation for fraud, theft and deception, since apprehensions for such crimes are usually section 420 of the Indian Penal Code that dates to its introduction by the British Raj in 1860.\n\nOther theories include the following:\n\nUrban legend claims, incorrectly, that 420 is or was a police code for a drug bust or for "marijuana smoking in progress", or that 4:20 is or was the shift change for the police. \nIt was, at one time, believed that there were 420 chemicals in marijuana. \nMany mistake April 20 as being the day Bob Marley, a famous rastafarian musician, died. The actual date he died is May 11. \nMany mistake April 20 as being the day Adolf Hitler died. The actual date he died is April 30; the 20th was his birthday. \nMany gather to celebrate and consume marijuana on April 20th, although this is almost definitely an effect of the popularization of the term 420, rather than a cause. \nApril 20 is sometimes claimed to be the last day on which one is supposed to plant cannabis seeds (although with the variety of planting regions and cannabis genetics, no such date can logically apply to all growing operations). \n"D" and "T" are the 4th and 20th letters of the alphabet, respectively, and thus "DT" stands for "doobie time" ("doobie" being a slang term for a marijuana cigarette). \nAt 4:20 on an analogue clock, the hands line up in a downward angle giving the appearance that the face of the clock has a smoking instrument in its "mouth". \nSome believe that marijuana grew wild on or near a purported Highway 420 in the Western United States in the 1960s.
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1 x 80 = 2 x 40 = 4 x 20 = 5 x 16 = 8 x 10\n80 has 2 x 5 = 10 factors.\n\nTh
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This is a great website URL and will contain all the information you are looking for.\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML
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460.21 /20 *100 = 2301.05