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You're just after Bread and Circuses...
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC?
You realize I use this so often it's now in my boilerplate app? 
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It could probably be coded, but ... it's not something this site would want to be associated with.
It's against Instagram T&C's and almost certainly the site owners will already be looking for such things. (Most social media sites already police such activity pretty effectively).
Technically, it's malware, and possibly illegal: it's an attempt to defraud. This site is for professionals, and does not get involved in supporting or producing malware in any way, shape, or form.
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Member 15064328 wrote: basically good bots
There is nothing good about fraud.
And I don't mind saying, there is also nothing good about people trying to "get rich quick" at the expense of others.
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Member 15064328 wrote: basically good bots. If you are willing to put on some work we can later sell this service or the code itself and make big money
European law says no; if I help, I be labeled a criminal.
Read their TOC.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: if I help, I be labeled a criminal.
Even if you don't help, you are still a criminal.
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20212 wrote: Even if you don't help, you are still a smooth criminal.
FTFY  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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20212 wrote: Even if you don't help, you are still a criminal.
Well, yes. But that's not the point.
..and there's no proof of me being a criminal.
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it's probably been done before (and surely still done now).
It's been done on all major social media (twitter, facebook, instagram ... )
Those sites already have a lot of anti-bots bots and from time to time they purge their system from malicious bots (and fraudulous accounts)
So you are kind of late in the party.
I'd rather be phishing!
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So, a scam...?
GTFO, CP is not the place for this.
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The children of a relative in the UK are being taught Abundant Numbers and mum is having a tough time keeping up. The theories are almost 2000 years old.
I understand how to work out the various (numerous) derivatives but what worldly purpose do they serve??
I have lived many years without requiring any abundance (other than a paycheck)
It seems almost as crazy as the Common Core Math they teach here in the USA.
Anyway, I would like to understand the importance/use of Abundant Numbers.
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I suspect the point of the exercise is not Pythagorean numerology, but rather to get the kids doing the arithmetic. It's not a bad mental arithmetic exercise for adults either. 
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What use are primes?
It's not until your start looking at some really complex stuff like cryptography that prime numbers become useful rather than just "oh wow, cool!" - but we teach kids about them!
So why not teach Abundance? They are a simple enough concept, that's kinda cool to think about and it gets you thinking (and practicing) division, addition, and logic (to an extent).
I haven't knowingly used a prime number since I was introduced to them at school - but every time I go shopping, every site I visit: they are there hiding in the background!
I have no idea if Abundance has a "real world" use - but if it does, then it's probably hidden away in common sight!
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Ironically you mention the most hidden in plain sight one: time.
Hours, minutes, seconds, months all use Abundant numbers.
The imperial system makes extensive use of them.
The idea of using them is there are more divisors, so you can split into more different sized items.
For example 12 can be divided into 2, 3, 4 or 6 but 10 can only be divided into 2 and 5.
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The only reason we use base10 is that we have ten fingers. (Well except for the French and Danes amongst others, no not the number of fingers, but they both partially use base20 in their spoken language)
The Babylonians appreciated abundant numbers and used base60 instead of base10, or the Sexagesimal system, this is where we got our minutes and seconds from.
I don't know why they decided to divide a day into twelve hours instead though. 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: The only reason we use base10 is that we have ten fingers.
That's why the French use base 20 - they take their socks off to count ...
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Yup, that's it.
Many years ago I recieved a book (actually two tomes) from my brother, "Histoire universelle des chiffres". Luckily a translated version since my French is utterly weak.
An amazing book, but a heavy read that I still haven't finished. 
The first chapters explains probable origins for different bases we have been using throughout history.
Base12 (very common in imperial measures) used the fingerjoints on one hand, excluding the thumb.
Add the thumbs and use both hands and you can count the days of a month.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: The only reason we use base10 is that we have ten fingers.
I've heard this stated many times but is there any evidence for it?
As we only have unique symbols for the numbers 0 to 9, might it not have been invented by a nine fingered person? (Insert your preferred locale for in-breeding jokes here) - which just happens to work out better for us to do arithmetic.
I've always found it interesting that our system of writing uses a different approach to the way our fingers work. If I want to give someone the sign for ten I'll hold up all ten fingers but to write it down, I have to use a second symbol ("1") followed by an arguably redundant zero, when it could have been "0A" - if we borrow from hex.
Of course, if you used e.g. "A" to represent the number after 9, then you hit all sorts of interesting questions related to zeroes e.g. should it be written "1A" or "20"?
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No proofs but plenty of evidence. 
1) The word for digit comes from the latin word for finger.
B) The roman symbol for 5 is a V which symbolizes a hand, and the symbol for 10 is an X which is two hands.
Interestingly the exeption that the Babylonian sexagesimal system would be, also has symbols for 1-9 and 10-50 and then a new symbol for 60.
There are obviously plenty of exeptions, but the main reason for using base10 is that we have a built in calculator in our hands.
Can recommend reading the book The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer[^] by Georges Ifrah if you're interested.
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Interesting.
Did you happen to see the episode of QI where they claimed that Roman numerals were only very rarely used by the Romans and their popularity is MUCH more recent encouraged by the BBC and others to make dates less readable?
I know nothing of this so merely repeating their claim (they allege it was a BBC policy so that repeated programmes were harder to spot if the date was flashed up quickly in Roman numerals!)
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No, I didn't see it, but if that's the case, what did they use instead?
As far as I understand, roman numerals were pushed away by arabic numerals around 900 AD.
I know they have found Roman Abacuses (Or Abacii? What is the plural actually?) several times that was obviously built according to the roman system. But that doesn't rule out anything.
As so often there could be different system in use in different social layers.
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Sorry, only had it on as "background" and wasn't paying proper attention.
They also said that e.g. four might just as often be written a IIII or IV, similarly VIIII for nine. Both systems were popular.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I don't know why they decided to divide a day into twelve hours instead though
Huh, and I thought a day was 24 hours .. Oh well 
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