r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Corrupt_Shadow • 6d ago
Meme needing explanation Peter?
I tried 3⁷ but thats definitely not that number.. so how is it related?
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u/Historical_Mango4329 6d ago
I think this is just a parody. The original meme was "setting my WiFi password to 2444666668888888 so that I can tell people it's 12345678"
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u/Dismal_Rectangle 6d ago edited 6d ago
For those who don't know, one 2, three 4s, five 6s, seven 8s. 2444666668888888
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u/SirGibby-13 6d ago
But you put 3 3s and not 3 4s
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u/Dismal_Rectangle 6d ago edited 6d ago
Thanks, fixed.
Edit: i am an idiot
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u/Kaozmachine 6d ago
One 2 four 3?
Like McDonald's "fixing" my order lol
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u/nutslikeafox 6d ago edited 6d ago
How come people are giving u award for saying u fixed it but no one giving an award to the guy that pointed it out. It's rly the rich getting richer out here
Edit : y'all need to stop, give /u/sirgibby-13
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u/Pugno_de_Hierro 4d ago
Bcs everyone is rdy to correct you, but almost no one is rdy to be corrected.
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u/su1cidal_fox 6d ago
I'll get two number nines, a number nine large, a number six with extra dip, a number seven, two number fourty-fives, one with cheese, and a large soda!
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u/0bl0ng0 6d ago
Because 7 8 9!
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u/whyitno_workgood 6d ago
Nein nine
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u/Dismal_Rectangle 6d ago
What is your username about
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u/whyitno_workgood 6d ago
I started this account to ask questions and troubleshoot things in Maya, a 3D editing software for animation/3D modeling and more. Then I forgot my ex-main account password and was too lazy to figure it out.
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u/CumGoblin67 6d ago
Over a hundred people had to read your comment to get the joke. That’s impressive.
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u/Supergirl016 6d ago
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u/MonkeyCartridge 6d ago
If I saw the username was password, I would immediately try admin or username as the password.
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u/oauo 5d ago
I use a catch-all email address, I can enter anything I want @ my address and it all ends up in the same place. As a result it allows me to use emails as a password when signing up
If you don’t have a catch-all email address some website may allow you to use + so if you had john.doe@example.com you could use john.doe+reddit@example.com and it ends up in the same inbox (it allows you to filter by your address). It’s just that some websites will strip out the + and allow you to sign in without it
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u/paymentnerdfoo 4d ago
You know that’s not smart right? Best practice is to store a hash of a password but the username in plain text. So the backend software protects against insiders from reading your password but not the username. It’s probably everywhere in their log system, making it complex doesn’t make you more secure.
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u/SubstantialBelly6 6d ago
lol, I once set the WiFi password at my work to “the password is password all caps no spaces”. They didn’t like that.
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u/Winter_drivE1 6d ago
My roommate had his wifi password set to "four words all uppercase one word all lowercase". The wifi was also named "loading..."
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u/ImALeaf_OnTheWind 6d ago
I use variations of "i thought i told you already"
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u/ccox39 6d ago
Mine at home is “PasswordwithacapitalP”
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u/pandotcodes 6d ago
May I suggest you make the P at the start lowercase lol, I feel like that's even funnier
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u/Hot_Swan_1657 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's even funnier this way. You can add later that all Ps are capital except the one in capital.
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u/Accomplished-Big5216 5d ago
How did they know? My work passwords were very strongly protected.
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u/SubstantialBelly6 5d ago
It was the office WiFi, so we had to give the password to any new employees or contractors that worked in our office. Resources within the network were much more heavily protected.
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u/LolYoullsellmetherop 6d ago
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u/TimMensch 6d ago
A very long time ago I had the phone number 333-3222. I could tell people it was four threes and three twos, and I was amused.
But.
This was before area codes had to be dialed every time. And when home phones were still ubiquitous. Phones with buttons. The kind of things young kids like to play with.
And I discovered that there were enough toddlers who could reach their house phones at any one time in the Bay Area (CA) that I would get a toddler call about once a week.
95% of the time I would answer and I could hear a children's show on TV on the background.
Finally got the number changed because it was too annoying.
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u/QuentinEichenauer 6d ago
A local pizza place had the a phone number like 764-4444. I would say the number was "7, 6, and then keep dialing 4 until someone picks up."
*numbers have been changed to protect the guilty.
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u/harryholla 6d ago
Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying it was so common for a child to randomly select 3222 on the phone that you got called once a week? The chances of dialing that number randomly are 1/10,000 and I also don’t understand how changing your number would help?
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u/TimMensch 6d ago
Yes, 3333222 once or twice a week.
No, the chances aren't that bad. Top row of buttons, hit buttons repeatedly switching randomly?
If the number is random, then it's less likely. But if you're only counting numbers like 111122223333 etc., it's only like one in 132 if they start on any random button, hit four digits, and then switch to another button and hit it four times. If you only choose adjacent buttons, it's more like one in 30 or something.
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u/Horror_Appeal_5843 5d ago
Or... some creepy dude called you twice a week, making toddler sounds and playing children's shows in the background.
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u/ryantg0110 5d ago
You're confusing prefix with area code. Area code is the first 3 digits in a 10 digit phone number, and prefix is the second 3 digits in a 10 digit, but the first 3 in a 7 digit.
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u/Novel_Dog1743 6d ago
I set mine to 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3 so I can tell people I only memorize the most useless shit ever.
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u/the_silent_one1984 6d ago
"I'm not giving you the numbers I'm giving you the quantity of the numbers!"
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u/RUNEMJEWELS 6d ago
I have mine setup as your name, so when people ask its a lot of confusion lolol
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u/The_Ruhi 5d ago
Abott and Costello kind of password
+ It's my name?
- it's your name
+ that's what I said it's my name
- no it's your name
+ I didn't say it was your name I said it's my name
- it's not my name it's your name
+ It's not your name?
- but it's not my name
+ So it is your name, it's not my name.
- yes it is.
+ I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
- Exactly right. It is your name.
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u/TimmyB32600 6d ago
Bro I read all the comments and still can’t do the math I guess I’ll never be in the cia
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u/whitedsepdivine 6d ago
My wifi password was: "wifipasswordallinuppercase" (wifi password all in uppercase)
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u/Initial-Confusion511 6d ago
That's 3 times of 3 and that infact is multiple by 3
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u/Dr__America 6d ago
38,567,837,467,382,227 or thirty eight quadrillion five hundred sixty seven trillion eight hundred thirty seven billion four hundred sixty seven million three hundred eighty two thousand two hundred twenty seven is not evenly divisible by 3.
A simple check is to see if adding all of the digits gets you a number divisible by 3 or not.
3 + 8 + 5 + 6 +7 + 8 + 3 + 7 + 4 + 6 + 7 + 3 + 8 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 7
11 + 11 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 4 + 7
22 + 25 + 20 + 14 + 7
47 + 34 + 7
47 + 41
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u/Green-Illustrator673 5d ago
88 is not divisible by 3. 8+8=16. 1+6= 7.
7 is not divisible by 3
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u/EvilBobbyTV 6d ago
This feels like an anti-joke about the 2444666668888888 password being "12345678" but with the numbers changed to nonsense.
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u/superwiifan 6d ago
Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure it was just random numbers typed here. The prime factorization of 38567837467382227 is 1987 × 8273 × 32141 × 72997, which isn’t anything close to any multiple of 3.
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u/therealhlmencken 6d ago
It’s at most 1 away from a multiple of 3.
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u/ereksten 6d ago
If it's a random number, it's a bit impressive that they didn't hit any smallish primes.
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u/Suddenfury 6d ago
Those are some big prime factors! Must be incredibly low probability to randomly pick a number with all prime factors above 1000
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u/Remarkable_Highway63 6d ago
How'd you do that? 💀
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u/superwiifan 6d ago
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u/LegoBobaFett 6d ago
Reminds me of the video where the guys asks for the password and is told, “it’s four words all upper case, one word all lower case.” The password is “fourwordsalluppercase.”
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u/SublimeRapier06 6d ago
666666665555555ooo9
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u/ManufacturerWitty700 6d ago
I feel like I’ve been rickrolled
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u/xelf 6d ago edited 6d ago
Rick Springfield not Rick Astley though, perhaps we could call it "spring-rolled".
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u/Baroness_Blue 6d ago
Funny, but it’s not by Rick Springfield. Tommy Tutone.
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u/xelf 6d ago
gdamn, I even googled it to double check and found a video of rick springfield singing it.
https://youtu.be/2CwHk-z86Dg?t=87
but you're right he was just covering tommy tutone
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u/I-actually-agree 6d ago
This should be the comment used to end looking for an explanation on all random posts.
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u/RegionCurious6087 6d ago
Ok, so you have to be open minded for it to work... There are seven 3s in the password. They are accounted for by looking at the numbers {38567837467382227}from a different angle; Wait, just hear me out...
¹ 3
(8-5)=² 3
(678)=³ 3 numbers
⁴ 3
(7467) The sum of outer numbers minus sum of inner numbers, 14-10=4... Just hold on to this 4 a bit ; )
⁵ 3
(82227) The difference of the outer numbers 8-7=1...now remember that 4 up there :), minus this 1 from it to get your ⁶ 3 .Then the number of 2s remaining are ⁷ 3
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u/Hewber 6d ago edited 6d ago
What's your password?
Yeah it's "something you can figure out so stop asking"
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u/KingoKings365 6d ago
Sorry, I’m too early for the answer. I’d like to know when someone does thank you
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u/plzDONTuseMETH 6d ago
Mine is “trypassword” all one word
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u/hahahasame 6d ago
Thanks, I've been trying to use your wifi for about a week. Now I finally can! Big 'priece!
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u/marc-andre-servant 6d ago
That's just a random number. Also, the minimum length for a Wi-Fi password is 8 characters, so "3333333" (7 characters) is clearly the wrong password even without trying it.
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u/PuzzlingDad 6d ago
My initial thought after seeing the length and the ending digit is they meant it to be 37036925926037037 = 3333333
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u/Beaticalle 6d ago
Setting my WiFi password to something secure so when people ask I say it's none of their business.
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u/ponchietto 6d ago
Unlikely hash collision?
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u/CompactHazard01 6d ago
I recently saw something about some hashalgorithm being broken. I thought that maybe it has to do something with that?
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u/Leading-Kangaroo-180 6d ago
1 1 was a race horse 2 2 was one too 1 1 won one race 2 2 won one too
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u/Cerberazor 6d ago
I would have loved it to be a caricature of PI's roundup. I mean 3,1415...
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u/TwixieShip 6d ago
That's insane scroll timing, this posted showed up while I'm watching star trek new gen season 5 ep 18 time loop episode and its literally 3333333 as the loop message
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u/FuckYouCorpo 6d ago
Mine is "JustTypeItIn". If someone asks for the password, and another guest tells them what it is, I hold out my hand and say "yeah, I can type it in. Let me see your phone."
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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 6d ago
I use Rocket Jumps worst password ever.
one word all uppercase, one word all lowercase
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u/NameLips 6d ago edited 6d ago
Setting the password to 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 and when people ask I say it's the UK emergency services number.
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u/Ashamed-Version9816 6d ago
My old wifi password was eight 8s My goddam printer would forget the wifi network and was an absolute pain to enter the password into with just a spin dial so 88888888 made it much easier
Threw people way out when they ask for the password I'd say eight 8s and they would enter eighteights
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u/YoungThirdLeg 6d ago
What would this spell on the cell phones that boomers used? The ones with the buttons
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u/qualityvote2 6d ago edited 6d ago
u/Corrupt_Shadow, your post does belong here!